Andy Jordan – December 12, 2018 Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at andy.jordan@roffensian.com. Andy’s new book Risk Management for Project Driven...
Anthony Mersino PMI Phoenix Chapter +1 – December 11, 2018 Anthony is an enterprise agile Coach with Vitality Chicago, Inc. He has over 30 years of experience delivering large-scale business programs and IT projects. He specializes in helping organizations effectively apply Lean and agile principles and the Scrum framework to gain true business agility. He teaches a wide range of...
Bruce Harpham PMI Southern Ontario Chapter – December 10, 2018 Bruce is the founder of ProjectManagementHacks.com, a resource for growing IT project managers. As the year comes to a close, let’s think about ways we can make the world a better place. As project managers, we know how to ship products and deliver change. If you want increased satisfaction, skill development and...
KAGISO RHULANI – December 10, 2018 Kagiso is a PM Specialist in Hammanskraal, Gauteng, South Africa. Ideas, needs and problems crystallize into projects in different ways. In this article, I will outline how project formulation varies in different companies and with different kinds of projects. As a hybrid project manager, I will explain how to integrate traditional evaluation...
Mudassir Iqbal – December 10, 2018 Mudassir is a consultant and trainer in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. An argument that I have with myself daily on the job is weather I am a project manager or a business analyst. Should I advise on the solution, or should I stay in the PM lane and let the solution architect and the business side deal with it? Many of us project managers have...
Shalini Prasad – December 10, 2018 Shalini is a project manager in Lewis Center, Ohio. Managing risk in any project (big or small) is about managing uncertainty. Every project contains some risks to varying degrees. Different types of risk include: Known risk: somewhat predictable; can be managed proactively Known Unknown risk: have not been accurately measured by a risk...
Kevin Coleman – December 6, 2018 Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries. At a recent strategy round-table I attended, the overwhelming sentiment was that the future is arriving much...
Emma Weber, Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack Phillips – December 6, 2018 When science first examined motivation, the consensus of opinion was that there were two main motivational drives. The drive to survive (also known as the biological imperative) and the ‘carrot and stick’ approach to motivation. Our motivation to survive is intrinsic; it comes from within and motivates us...
Andy Jordan – December 6, 2018 Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at andy.jordan@roffensian.com. Andy’s new book Risk Management for Project Driven...
Michael Wood – December 6, 2018 Michael R. Wood is a Business Process Improvement & IT Strategist Independent Consultant. He is creator of the business process-improvement methodology called HELIX and founder of The Natural Intelligence Group, a strategy, process improvement and technology consulting company. He is also a CPA, has served as an Adjunct Professor in...