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The 5 P's of Project Management Success

Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance This simple phrase describes the core behavior of all project related work. For any platitude to survive contact with reality, it must be true, actionable, and applicable in your own domain. The notion that “emergence”... Read more →

Teams, Teaming, Team Management, and Measurable Outcomes

We hear all the time, pithy statements about teams, teaming, team building, enabling team that provide innovation, and most every soft skill ever thought of, applied to managing projects. At the project below, where I was one of many program... Read more →

Learning from Mistakes is Overrated

We've all heard this before, hire good people and let them learn from their mistakes. The first question is who pays for people learning from their mistakes? Then the next question - with these mistakes, did the project advance in... Read more →

It's an Estimating Problem not A Problem with Estimating

There is an endless number of reasons for why we should or shouldn't make estimates of our work. Some from credible sources, some from not so credible sources. But let's start with a fundamental principle of all business, not matter... Read more →