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Is It Time for PMI to Change….or the Marketplace?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: There are certain terms that we all run into which are so frequently mis-used that we wonder whether it makes sense to keep fighting to define the “real” term or just give in to market forces and call something by…
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Even Hotels Understand Constraints –
Why Can’t My Management Team?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: One of the benefits of enrolling in a hotel program is being able to specify preferences. Recently, after making my hotel reservation, I reviewed the options presented to me. What I found was this: To better accommodate…
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Good Training Gone Bad

by Rob Zell: When I started my career in the world of corporate training, my first assignment was to revamp the field curriculum for a retail establishment. I was brand new to the world of retail corporate training but I had confidence in…
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A Matter of Balance – Management vs. Technical Role

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Why do organizations constantly rely on their PMs to also perform key technical work on a project? Several reasons. One is reality. We are doing more with less now, and the reality is that we may not have the personnel…
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Keep it Simple and Fix It!

By Rob Zell: As a learning professional, I am no stranger to having the business units that I support approach me with issues that require solutions. In most cases, they come looking for training solutions when the bottom line results aren’t…
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Jargon – Confused?

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: Project Managers are notorious for it. On top of business jargon we add our own unique language and terms. Writers on Star Trek call it technobabble, we can call ours PM-speak. We have our own language and acronyms, just…