Posts tagged Project Management

The Underlying Skill for an Onsite Lead

You are a leader in your domain and you are embarking on your first or repeat onsite trip. Your proven communication skills, your success in your domain, your high “like-factor” with the customer during the many phone/email conversations and your team coordinating abilities… these are the skills that undoubtedly makes you the ideal candidate to perform the very crucial role of the onsite Le

Introducing SCRUM for Managers

When I saw Robert’s tweets popping on my TweetDeck inviting one and all for a virtual front row seat to his webinar on SCRUM for Managers, I was quick to accept. So did many others and it was worth every minute spent.

Introducing “Critical Chain Project Management”

…an effective scheduling technique that enables project managers to truly plan a project instead of merely stringing tasks together to an end date. True planning calls fot a great deal of thought that should go into executing a project and steer it towards success. But to do that, we need to first understand project failure.

Stress in Leadership Roles – Identify It

Understanding the problems related to stress is pretty straightforward, but how do you find a simple solution for reducing stress in your life? Go to the self-help section of the bookstore and you will find a plethora of how-to-reduce-stress-in-your-life books. While most of these books present good tips based on quality research, you often end up adding more stress to your day just finding time to sit down and read the book! Unfortunately there are very few things in life under your complete control, mainly the actions of people and events that happen to you. You can however, control to an extent some of the people and events you allow to affect daily life.

5 Common Scheduling Mistakes

You are the architect. You designed the maze. So, you should know your way out. You should know the critical path leading to the exit sign. Right? But you don’t!

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