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What Can Pixar’s “Inside Out”
Teach Us About Instructional Design?

By Cheri Milford Like so many – I thoroughly enjoy Pixar movies. My oldest grew up with Andy in ‘Toy Story’ (I shed many tears when Andy went off to college – anticipating my oldest doing the same a short time later). And who would…
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Project Management is Not
Rocket Science! Or is it?

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP Processes, Requirements, and Reviews. Three things that NASA does well that you should also be doing. Project management has always seemed to me to be such a simple concept: identify what needs to be done,…
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What? So What? What If? Now What?

By Darlene Frederick They say that experience is the best teacher. In fact, the favored concept of the moment in corporate learning is 70:20:10, with its heavy preference for experiential learning. Commonly interpreted as “learning by doing,”…
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Agile Mastery –
Doing, Understanding and Being

by Alan S. Koch, Certified ITIL Expert, PMP, CSM, CTM It is not unusual for organizations to struggle with the transition from a traditional project approach to an Agile approach.  Agile methods appear deceptively simple, but present real…
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Communications 101

by Dot Young The ability to effectively communicate always ranks as a top skill desired by employers. At work, at home, even driving down the road, we are constantly communicating in one way or another. We have been communicating non-stop…
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Is There a Metaphor for
Project Management?

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP In reading some metaphors that describe leadership, I began to think of metaphors I’ve seen for project management and wonder whether any really capture the essence of what happens in projects. Sports metaphors…