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Innovation for Everyone

by Rob Zell Every time I pass the virtual newsstand (think about whatever your online resource is for gathering news or maybe you use an actual newsstand), I see headlines and features broadcasting the importance of innovation. Go to www.hbr.org (the…
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Projects, Projects Everywhere: A Project Portfolio Management Approach

by Kathy Martucci, PMP: Everybody’s project is this year’s priority. Everyone is a project manager. Every manager thinks her initiatives should receive major portions of the limited funding that is available these days. Every team wants…
Project Manager and the Business Analyst: Who’s Who?
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Project Manager and the
Business Analyst: Who’s Who?

By Karey Rees: It seems like there has been a lot of discussion lately about how the role of a Business Analyst differs from the role of a Project Manager. The answer can be a tricky one especially depending on the organization you work…
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PMOs – How To Integrate PMOs Into
the Organizational Structure

By Bruce Beer, PMP Note: This is the fifth and final post in a series on PMOs. In the previous four blogs in this series we looked at defining a PMO, the business value that they bring to a company, why your company might need one,…
Managing Projects Through Requirements
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Managing Projects through
Requirements

by Kathy Martucci, PMP: As project managers, we are accustomed, even mandated, to planning our work and working our plan. We build and examine (and re-examine) Work Breakdown Structures and eventual project schedules. We swear our Gannt…
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Making Sure You Have the Right “Fix”

By Rob Zell: Before you can really solve a problem you have to get inside it, poke around in the guts of the matter, experience the pain it’s causing the organization, understand how people cope with the issue and how it ripples through…