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By Soma Bhattacharya

Agile teams are being tested. The world has changed, and many teams—no matter what their structure was prior to the pandemic—are working from home, on top of dealing with increased COVID-19 challenges. While the demand for deliverables and work continues, the…

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Managing the dynamics of stakeholder engagement is an essential component of successful delivery. Stakeholders offer direction and support, and enable key strategic and tactical decisions needed for delivery progress.

Especially early in our careers, we tend to think about stakeholders …

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For someone like me who works in healthcare project management and is inundated with acronyms on a daily basis, this advice from Dave Wakeman really hits home. I’ve actually gone so far as to create a dictionary of sorts that sits on my desktop for easy referral.  An essential focus of project management is communication – clear and concise communication which easily gets a point across. The use of jargon can shift focus from essential goals and muddy the waters. What language is used in your business environment that you perceive as useless and annoying?

From Voices on Project Management:
by Dave Wakeman

My mind has been so focused lately on the leadership failures we’ve seen during the pandemic that I often forget to think about ways that we can help our project teams move forward right now. That got me to thinking about something we often struggle within any situation: sim…

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By Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMP

There’s no “I” in project team—or volunteer.

While volunteering on a 2021 forum for an association, I was assigned to work with a new volunteer. At the outset, I had some reservations. Throughout the experience, however, I gained knowled…

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By Cyndee Miller

Whipping up tapas and shaking cocktails isn’t your typical day in Project Management Land. So why was I watching master chef José Andrés prepare seafood delicacies as PMI President and CEO Sunil Prashara played mixologist? It was all part of the fun—and …

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By Cyndee Miller

Greta Thunberg isn’t messing around. Joining forces with three other young climate change activists, she called on political leaders last week to stop talking and actually do something: “Our current system is not ‘broken’—the system is doing exactly …

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From Voices on Project Management:
By Lynda Bourne

In my last post, The Real Estimating Challenge Isn’t Calculating the Cost, I suggested that calculating a project cost estimate is the easy bit. Having the estimate accepted by either a client or your management—or both—and then delivering your project on bud…

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By Yasmina Khelifi, PMP, PMI-ACP

I first experienced the transformational impact of diversity during a six-month internship in Japan in 2000. The experience made me question every action and learned behavior I had previously made without a thought: how to greet people, how to make a request, how …

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