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Doing Our Best Project Work….With Less

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the great symphony of life, everyone plays an important role, from the conductor to each instrument. Such it is with project management. If we have a team member that doesn’t pull their weight on the project,…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Manage Your Management, Manage Your Team

by Dr. Gerald Mulenburg, PMP: What Managers Need to Know About Managing Projects Having been both a project manager and a manager of project managers, I’ve developed a clear impression of what a project produces, what it costs, and…
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Stop, Look and Succeed
with Your Project

by Eileen McMonagle When a project feels like it is getting out of control, don’t try to move faster with it.  Now is the time to stop.  Even though it may feel like you should be doing the opposite, stop and really look at where…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Sleeping and Learning – Using
Sleep Patterns to Process
Information Better

By Vicki Wrona, PMP: In the book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Tony Schwartz discusses many little known facts about sleep and learning, and the effect of too little sleep. In this post, I will discuss the duration of the sleep…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Cross Footing and Run Rate Exhaustion, Part 2

By Craig Covello, PMP: In part one of this two-part series, we looked at cross footing to find spreadsheet errors. This month, we look at a possible early warning sign of overspending. Run Rate Exhaustion Every project has two primary…
Sleeping and Learning – Using Sleep Patterns to Process Information Better
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Quality Planning – Is It Really Worth It? (part 2)

by Bruce Beer, PMP: In Part 1, we introduced the difficulty of trying to create a quality plan on complex projects without historicals. Here, we complete the series by discussing the objectives and components of a quality plan. What is…