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Inspiration
Project Management Inspiration on Twitter
03.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I like Twitter you can follow me if you want, it’s a place where I micro-blog about just about anything that’s on my mind and I announce my new posts there as well. There’s a site called Twittgroups that parses all the tweets for group tokens, words that start with a hash (#) character. One [...]
Project Management
What does a good Project Manager do actually?
01.24.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Good question, someone asked me a few days ago and it got me thinking about the essentials. So what does a good PM do actually? Here’s a list of good PM behaviors that I think are important: communicate with all the people who are influenced by the project monitor and control the scope, budget and [...]
Mindmaps, Project Initiation
Shorter Project Charters
01.19.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

A project charter is the document that provides ownership (and authority) to the PM for a project, after someone hands that to you or when you write it up yourself and get it signed, you are the owner of the project on behalf of your company. The point is, you start out with it and [...]
Methodology
Doing What is Good For The Project.
01.07.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

There are many management methodologies around, like ITIL, PRINCE2, the one I’m currently studying PMI, and many more but actually there is only one thing a PM has to do and that is doing what is good for the project. Just leave out all the processes that you don’t need. Whenever you can, do less [...]