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Do Simple Projects Need Less Planning?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: So, you’ve been assigned a “simple” project. In fact, it’s so simple there’s really no need for a formal project plan, a charter or any formal methodology for that matter. You feel good. Day 2: the business…
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Organizational Skills: Beyond the To-Do List

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: In every interview, there’s invariably a question about our organizational skills.  Let’s take a minute to think about how we’ve answered this question in the past.  I’ll bet most of us said we use to-do…
Matrix Management: Can a Fundamental Tenet of Project Management Keep it Simple
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Matrix Management:
Can a Fundamental Tenet of
Project Management Keep it Simple?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: I think you would whole-heartedly agree that Matrix Management is a well-established, well-recognized foundation of project management methodology.   Therefore, it must be in keeping with all the other basic truths…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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Trust Me….I’m On Your Team

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: We don’t find the concept of trust on most traditional lists of project critical success factors. Yet it may be the number one consideration in establishing and maintaining a high-performing virtual team. While it…
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Generational Leadership: A New Dimension of Diversity

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: The generational makeup of the workforce has changed significantly in the last 10 years. Today, more generations work together in single workplaces and they have greater disparities than ever before. The workforce…
Point-Counterpoint: The Technical vs the Non-Technical Project Manager
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Point-Counterpoint: The Technical
vs the Non-Technical
Project Manager

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: In this world of complex information technology projects, is a non-technical project manager as effective or as successful as a technical project manager? Is the project manager required to have a technical background…