Successfully Executing Strategy
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Successfully Executing Strategy –
Roadmap and Project Portfolio

By Michele Studer, MBA Is this the secret to successfully executing your strategy? The executive team spent three days in a closed-door session, reviewing market trends, analyzing the company’s past performance and crafting a new growth…
Did That Process Change Work? Four Steps to Better Processes
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Did That Process Change Work?
Four Steps to Better Processes, Step 1

by Alan S. Koch, Certified ITIL Expert, PMP, CSM, CTM So you made some changes to the way you do your projects. Did those changes make a difference? How can you know? There is an old saying that goes, "You can't manage what you don't…
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Are Large and Small Projects Different?

By Craig Covello, PMP: As I write, there is a beautiful view reserved for travelers 30,000 feet above California, en route to Dallas. It’s a frequent trip these days that gives me pause to consider the perpetual to-do list on my Android.…
Puzzle Pieces
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Managing Large Projects or Programs

By Bruce Beer, PMP: OK – you have been asked to manage a new major project that is an integral part of your company’s strategy (or your customer’s strategy if you are providing project services) and the cost is estimated to be in the…
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Evolving Professions: Project Management, Business Analyst, Business Architect

by Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the spirit of continuing my discussion of the evolution of project management, this month I will describe the evolution of various professions as I have seen it occur. I have found there are a variety of conflicting…
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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…