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pmStudent
Written for and by life-long students, educators, and project management practitioners. A diverse mix of perspectives and project management topics. You can even write for pmStudent.com yourself! It has been designed to make sharing your thoughts with the ...
A Girl's Guide to Project Management
A Girl's Guide to Project Management is an award-winning blog, looking at the practical application of tools and techniques. It also covers software and book reviews, as well as project management news and events. Written by Elizabeth Harrin, author of ...
lap31 "are you ready to lead?"
At lap31, Raj Menon explores the mindset of a leader and what it takes to be one as he shares his own experiences and thoughts through his writing. lap31 is about our laps in this race of a lifetime; of creating success stories and managing failures, of t ...
Project Management and Quality Assurance (QA)
On this blog you will find information regarding Project Management and Quality Assurance (QA) The blog is written in Spanish and English. En este blog encontrará información sobre la Administración de Proyectos y el Aseguramiento de la Calidad (QA) El ...
Cornelius Fichtner
Cornelius Fichtner's project management musings on PMOs, general PM topics, PMP preparation and other items from our profession that come across his pen.
PMThink!
PMThink is one of the most thought provoking project management blogs in the blogosphere today. Jerry Manas and his co-bloggers add new comments and insights to PMThink! on a daily basis.So grab a cup of a hot beverage and take 10 minutes in the morning b ...
5 Tips to becoming a Great Project Manager
1) Create a sense of urgency 2) Don't under- or overestimate 3) Stay on top of things 4) Keep internal and external dates a secret 5) Be persistent This is not a job for people with thin skin. (I couldn't agree more!)
7 Questions To Assess Your Leadership Pulse
Facilitation 101 from The Enlightened Manager If you've worked as a PM or in the business world for long you've probably had your share of good and bad meetings. If you think about what makes one session run smoothly and another a mess, you might find ...
Becoming a PMP
Becoming a PMP is not as hard (or easy) as it seems! Karine Simard discusses the process of becoming a PMP….the easy parts and the hard parts. If you are not PMP certified yet, be sure to check this out! Personality type for to-be Project Managers ...
Better Projects
A blog about project management, product management and business analysis.
Can Organizational Project Management Be Improved Witho...
“Is it possible to improve an organization’s project management without executive support?” Sure, anything is possible, but this is quite a question if you think about it for a while--possibly the subject of a PhD dissertation. Let’s ...
Clear Project Management
Project management is a skill and and an art. Clear PM will help you gain clarity on the practice of project management and related topics, from the challenges of team building to the endless opportunities to learn new perspectives and grow your career. ...
Cutting's Edge Project Management
Cutting's Edge contains nearly random Project Management insights from author and speaker Thomas Cutting, PMP. This is the place to go for lessons learned and real world practicality delivered with a twist of humor. Thomas has spoken at PMI and PSQT Confe ...
Execution and Control Occur Simultaneously
The purpose of project management is to minimize risks that results in delivering a project on time, within budget, and that meets or exceeds customer expectations, which results in a successful project. In order to minimize the risks that would prevent y ...
Gantthead PMO Setup T3 - Tips, Tools, and Techniques
The Gantthead Blog, PMO Setup T3 - Tips, Tools, and Techniques features insights into setting up and managing a PMO. Provided are helpful articles, analysis, and opinions along with regular PMO Comics.
Go Ahead, Manage
A blog from a project management software company, about managing projects, managing products, and marketing in a Web 2.0 world.
Increasing the success of Project Managers
The current series is entitled "Back to the Basics" and reminds us projects fail day to day over the little things...like Stakeholders. It began with a call to Stand up and act Like a...PM? and a discussion on the Terrible Triangle. Communication is th ...
Kareem's Blog
Kareem Shaker works as a Project Manager and has been blogging for about six years. He admits that blogging is his number one hobby, He uses his website to write about project & program management, soft skills, people management, creativity, NLP, posi ...
Let Them Fail
I listened to one of my favorite podcasts yesterday, EconTalk. The episode was a discussion about credit default swaps and more generally about the financial woes we have gotten ourselves into. Then this morning, I read this article in the New York Time ...
Manage Project Portfolio
Manage Project Portfolio During Recession Environment This recession could cause your enterprise to scale back its investment commitment for projects. Now is a good time to refine your project ranking and scan the pipeline for high-value ungoverned pro ...
Manage Project Portfolio During Recession Environment
This recession could cause your enterprise to scale back its investment commitment for projects. Now is a good time to refine your project ranking and scan the pipeline for high-value ungoverned project proposals. Investment scenarios can be helpful to fa ...
Navigate Project Minefield
The CIO agenda and the underlying IT project portfolio can benefit from navigating the political waters in an enterprise. Project managers should tap into the cross-line of business and function perspective provided by the IT organization to sense and res ...
New Rules for Project Managers
Ten New Rules for Project Managers These ten ideas will dramatically improve your projects. Are these ten rules the top ten? You decide. But don't take too long. Share these rules with your team. Your team members are sure to help you carry them out! ...
Papo GP
Papo GP focus on reviews and articles to beginners on the PM area. The goal is to gather as much useful information as we can, in order to serve as an outpost for researchers and learners. The blog is in Brazilian Portuguese, but thanks to WorldLingo.com ...
People, Projects, and Organizations
"People, Projects, and Organizations" is authored by Ben Snyder, CEO and President of Systemation. This blog offers a wide variety of articles on project management, business analysis, and agile development and explores the people, projects, and organizat ...
Performance or Knowledge?
I learned to play chess when I was about 10 or 11. I know how each piece moves. I know how to avoid Fool’s Mate. I know a few opening gambits. I know the relative value of the various pieces. I played with my friends and won about as many games as I los ...
PMI Voices
Voices on Project Management is the place for all things project management--covering sustainability, talent management, ROI, programs and portfolios and all points in between. The goal is to spark a discussion. So, if you read something that you agree wi ...
PMinFOCUS
This is the blog of an IT project manager based in London, UK. The blog discusses his experience and thoughts on project management matters specially in project in the Telecoms, Media and Technology sector.The writer is a freelance PM, Vincent Birlouez, w ...
PMO Tips of the Week
PMO Tips of the Week, over 7 years of topical, informative, brief, and amusing project management process, best practice, and project tips amassed from website visitors, customers and business partners of BOT International.
Problem Solving vs. the Blame Game: PM Skills for All L...
As an organization development professional who has designed and implemented leadership programs, training programs and change management efforts for major corporations, I am still amazed when I see very smart people forgetting to problem solve and to con ...
Project Benefits Realization with Compensation Escrow
There's no doubt that Wall Street risk, returns, and accountability got out of whack. Since most investments, whether IT or other, are founded on the principle of ROI, how about using this escrow account / variable compensation approach until projec ...
Project Management 2.0
New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost?
Project Management Guide
Project Management Guide is a project management blog that aims to help those just starting out in project management. It provides information on how to run a project, along with blog posts about the world of project management.
Project Practitioners
A practical view of common issues, and how to deal with them as well as tips and techniques from the field in the world of project, program, and portfolio management.
Ten New Rules for Project Managers
10. Projects are wonderful opportunities to learn. Adopt practices for exploring a variety of perspectives. We think we see what we see, but we don't. We really see what we think. Remember the blind men and the elephant. Make it your habit to inquire wh ...
The PM Software Blog
Tackling Project Management Skills In our last post we discussed the relationship between the project management skills of an organization to a successful project management software implementation. Read it here. We discussed how project management s ...
Tracking Change: Identification & Categorization
The adage "what gets measured gets managed" can be applied to many endeavors. While it may not seem important initially to know why the client requested significant changes to the project, since the schedule and cost plans have been adjusted, these chan ...
Wanna be a PMP?
This blog is a one-stop resource for information on the PMP exam. It contains links to sample questions, mock exams, and, recommended study materials, in addition to other information. Apart from helping aspirants understand the eligibility criteria for t ...
Why PMOs Fail
I have noticed over the past 15 years an obvious pattern for why PMOs fail. Creating a successful PMO is really not hard. There is a learning curve that all businesses go through when implementing or maintaining a PMO, but in time people do adopt and ada ...
Zen, Project Management and Life
A look at project management from a different perspective, incorporating diverse ideas that can be applied to project management. Bob Tarne, the author, focuses on helping clients improve their business performance. He also discusses on Tracking Value, Bu ...


