One of Systemation’s most highly sought after single discipline classes within project management is risk management. Directors are hot on it; they...
Your Biggest Project Risk is Poor Project Management
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Projects
Don’t Ask For Permission When Forgiveness is Easier
You’ve heard it said that electricity follows the path of least resistance, so why shouldn’t this principle apply to our decision making too? We’ve...
Five Pillars of Practical Project Management
Really? With such a preponderance of project management literature it is hard to believe there are only five pillars of practices that a PM has to...
Was Your Project Late or Underestimated?
It’s amazing how a simple tool such as a project schedule, with multiple tasks and a project completion date, can create so much shame or joy for...
Is Your Project Schedule Dynamic?
Most everyone starts their project with a schedule. They define the work that needs to be completed in the form of activities with varying levels of...
Baselines: A Valuable Tool in Life and Projects
We’re all very familiar with baselines in life. We may not call them by that name, but they’re all around us. They tell us when we should change the...
Project Management ROI
All project managers see their job differently. Some are very lofty in describing their role; others seem lost still trying to discover it. There is...
How Work Gets Done
Most organizational leaders are compensated for executing on strategy and maintaining daily operations. While true, this is an overly glorified way...
Haunting Deadlines
Working on projects can be very demanding, taxing our energy and resiliency. There are often spurts of overtime that have to be put in to get a...
End-Users Have Horizon Lines Too
We have been unfair to end-users for far too long. We ask them what they want the application to do for them and they tell us as best they can. Then...