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The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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Business transformation occurs when a company makes a change in administrative procedures with the intention to organize people and enhance their performance. It can also aim to adjust an organization’s processes and technologies to meet its business...

Oct 23, 2019

The Importance of Management Roles in Business Transformation

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7097:]] Business transformation occurs when a company makes a change in administrative procedures with the intention to organize people and enhance their performance. It can also aim to adjust an organization’s processes and tec...

Oct 30, 2019

Know Your Stakeholders

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Stakeholder management is one of the most critical project management functions.  Stakeholders are our customers, organizational leaders, members of our project teams, and people we may not even know.  The project manager’s ability to effectively ide...

Nov 1, 2019

Project Planning: The difference in knowing the principles

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 Coming from an Agricultural background to the construction industry has been a massive change in my life. While working in agricultural irrigation I completed a course in the Principles of Project Planning part time through Profactaplan(https://www....

Nov 8, 2019

Engage Your Stakeholders

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Managers and project managers are often told that "engaging stakeholders" is critical to success.  However, they rarely receive guidance on what it means or how to “engage stakeholders.”  It is similar to when I started practicing yoga, the teacher t...

Dec 2, 2019

Failed Agile Sprints

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Agile teams using the Scrum framework commit to delivering value in each development sprint.  Sprints are generally 2-weeks long, and the goal is to create working software that can be deployed into production.  While commitment is one of Scrum’s cor...

Dec 29, 2019

How to Display P6 Durations in Both Hours & Days

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 Someone recently asked me if it was possible to display two duration columns in a Primavera P6 layout, one column in hours and the other in days. This tutorial outlines the steps required to display two different units of durations. Tutorial Complex...

Jan 12, 2020

Export from Microsoft Project to Excel

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 If you have ever used Primavera P6, you would be surprised that exporting from Microsoft Project to Microsoft Excel does not provide you with a ready to be used data considering that both products are from the Royal House of Microsoft. In Primavera ...

Jan 12, 2020

Integrated Schedule, a Must Have in Program Management

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Program management is the process of managing several related projects typically to enhance an organization's outlook, better its industry reputation, to improve overall productivity and to avail of long-term opportunities. I would like to re-share w...

Jan 22, 2020

Disciplined Agile: To Agility and Beyond

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Disciplined Agile (DA) has the potential to become a leading agile framework because it creates harmony in this congested thought-space.  DA recognizes practices from across the spectrum and offers a pragmatic and context-driven approach to agility.C...

Feb 1, 2020

Risk, What are You? Children's Book for all Professionals

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I am happy to announce the official publication of my fifth book titled “Risk, What are You? The Risk Management Book, Children’s Book for all Professionals.” Written and illustrated for children of reading age (with some guidance), young leaders, fu...

Feb 2, 2020

Why People Skills are Important

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Traditional project management concepts focus on processes, timelines and budgets, but forget the human aspect of the project management. The human relations approach to project management has gained increasing acceptance because project managers hav...

Aug 22, 2019

PMI Goes Agile

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) is making a bold pivot toward agile.  As a project manager and an agilist, I am excited by these moves.  At the same time, it is hard to envision both this transition and the future state.  In this article, I sh...

Aug 30, 2019

Going Agile

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Many organizations try to catapult into agility.  Striving to instantaneously transform their traditional practices and culture.   Unfortunately, this strategy is usually painful and often fails.The Scrum Guide states, “Scrum is easy to understand, b...

Oct 8, 2019

Going Agile

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Many organizations try to catapult into agility.  Striving to instantaneously transform their traditional practices and culture.   Unfortunately, this strategy is usually painful and often fails.The Scrum Guide states, “Scrum is easy to understand, b...

Oct 8, 2019

10 People to follow on LinkedIn & Planning Planet

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LinkedIn and Planning Planet are two of my favourite websites and here is a list of 10 people I follow on LinkedIn or look out for their posts on Planning Planet. Reading from these people always makes my day.  Image Credit: ijmaki While LinkedIn is ...

Feb 19, 2020

Agile Project Governance: It Should be Easy

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Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control.  The truth is that most projects are not successful.   Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope.  Tradit...

Mar 3, 2020

Agile Project Governance: It Should be Easy

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Many organizations struggle with project governance, oversight, and control.  The truth is that most projects are not successful.   Over the past 25-years, only 30% of all projects are delivered on-time, on-budget, and with the desired scope.  Tradit...

Mar 3, 2020

Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus

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The coronavirus pandemic is the most frightening, disruptive, and widespread crisis of our lifetime.  As managers and leaders, none of us have faced challenges of such a magnitude or scale.  Over the next several weeks and probably months, our teams ...

Mar 28, 2020