Decluttering Scope
By Vicki Wrona, PMP
The effect of clutter and tips to de-clutter are readily available online and on TV. It’s all the rage and constantly in the back of many people’s minds, especially during spring cleaning or when moving. When I received…
The ABC’s of Scope Creep Management
By Bill Flury
Three experienced project managers were having coffee together in a break room at a Project Management Institute Workshop on Scope Management. Their workshop moderator had asked them to share scope creep stories about their…
White Paper: Brainstorming and
Reverse Brainstorming
By Vicki Wrona
We all know what brainstorming is and how to do it. Then how come so many people do it so poorly? They think they do it well, but as an observer, I can tell you they don’t. And the ones who are proudest and loudest of their…
Reverse Brainstorming
White Paper:
Your Toughest Project – Ever
By Bill Flury
You have just been offered the opportunity to be the Project Manager of a new project. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it is likely to be the toughest project you will ever undertake. When you learn what’s involved…
Your Toughest Project – Ever
Evaluating New Ideas
By Bill Flury
A New Idea Arrives
Beth hurries into her team lead’s office all excited. She’s just come back from visiting Roger, her number one favorite client. She tells him that Roger has a great idea for a new App for his customer…
A 3 Foot Piece of String
Can Save Your Project
By Bill Flury
We were getting going on a major system conversion process. Our job was to replace a legacy image processing system with all new hardware and software. Our team included three contractors, one for software, one for the computing…
Can Save Your Project