This month it is all about how project managers make decisions. Pondering this issue I came across the interview with Dick Cheney on the decision to go in to Iraq when George W. Bush was president. The president tells the story that he made the decision with assistance from his advisors and Cheney says the [...]
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This August will prove to be one of the most trying times for the economy of the U.S. and its citizens. We have a government that finds itself unable to negotiate within itself and to reach compromise. After all legislation is nothing more than a negotiation and a contract. Since this month is all about [...]
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We all deal with Risk in all our projects. We have templates, graphs, spread sheets, etc trying as hard as we can to define the risks that our project will face. When I started this article I looked back at all the projects that I have been involved with and remembered how diligently we tried [...]
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The Buffalo Bills are once again “team building” as they have been for the last 10 years. I always wonder to myself whenever I hear that an organization is team building, what they mean and what they hope to accomplish. In the case of the Buffalo Bills is it another season where they don’t lose [...]
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When Joanne asked me to write my February newsletter article on scheduling and time management, I told her it would be a very short article. Project managers need to schedule their project tasks and their time and they must report the time against these tasks for themselves and the project. End of article—wrong! Determining the [...]
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