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It’s Your Project!

By Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: A book that I read recently keeps coming to mind when I think about project management. The name of the book is It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques From the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Naval Captain…
Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?
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Keeping Your Project Within Budget

By Bruce Beer, PMP: Note: This is Part 2 of the Keeping Your Project on Track series. Click here to read Part 1, Keeping Your Project on Time. The first in this series of “Keeping Your Project on Track” dealt with how to keep your…
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Non-Productive Team Members – Who’s Responsible?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when someone speaks of a non-productive team member? Is it, “Well, he needs to shape up!”? Maybe, maybe not. We can all agree that ultimately the team member…
Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?
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Manage Your Management, Manage Your Team

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: What Managers Need to Know About Managing Projects Having been both a project manager and a manager of project managers, I’ve developed a clear impression of what a project produces, what it costs, and…
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Addressing Senior Management Fears

by Vicki Wrona, PMP: As project managers, we are often put into the position of middle managers. First, we have to manage those working on the project effectively, and often we spend much of our time in the day-to-day details of managing…
Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?
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Telling Truth to Power: Do We Have What It Takes to Manage Up?

By Kathy Martucci, PMP: How many times have we been told that we need to “manage up”?  When someone says that, we all know what they mean.  Or do we?  What do we really need to do to manage up? It’s been said that managing…