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Project Managers are Complexity Navigators inspiration Mar 28, 2025

At my company, in the first few years we had a project management department, it was optional for other teams to work with us when they wanted to get things done. As much as this reality wasn’t my favorite, it certainly gave me a lot of practice in persuasion and put me in the habit of thinking abou...

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The Dangers of Fluid Timelines pain points Mar 07, 2025

This week I’ve been working on a reset plan for a multi-year project. Its goal is to get multiple external websites, internal websites, and other miscellaneous data off an old web server and onto a new one. Because the project has been so long and included multiple pivots, entropy has set in and mad...

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Missing Information? Here's How to Move Forward. pain points Feb 07, 2025

As project managers, we’re constantly in scenarios where we don’t have all the information we need. Sometimes this is just because we’re in the initial process of gathering it—in this case, keep asking questions and collecting requirements.

But what about when information isn’t forthcoming? What if...

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As a Project Manager, I Love Generative AI—But Not Why You'd Expect inspiration Jan 31, 2025

When I hear discussions about AI’s near-term potential in project management, many of the discussed use cases fall into one of these two categories:

  1. Writing Help: Project managers produce extensive written communication, not to mention written documents and other artifacts associated with project
  2. ...
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Scope Creep vs. Valid Project Changes concepts Jan 24, 2025

I’m working on a project right now where the original plan looked like this:

  • A staff member would use her laptop at home to record a screen-capture video in which she’d talk through training material while sharing slides.
  • The footage would be passed to a video editor for very minor edits.
  • The v
  • ...
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Acknowledge Change people Jan 17, 2025

My company rolled out a re-org this week, and it included some surprising layoffs of people I’m very close to. Among those of us still at the company, the changes affect everyone, but they happen to affect me more than most.

My boss has been very kind, supportive, and flexible as I’ve worked throug...

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Who Pulls You Forward? inspiration Jan 03, 2025

At my company, I’m manager of the project management department. This means I’m the person at my company with the most knowledge of and experience in project management.

It’s a great honor and a privilege to lead a department and a function, and to be the one to provide direction to my whole compan...

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Learn What Your Teams Need to Succeed pain points people Dec 27, 2024

Recently I heard a coworker use the phrase, “a lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”

I definitely resonated with this idea the first time I heard it, because I love planning and I love good boundaries. But over time I’ve come to realize its merit is mixed.

On ...

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Have the Hard Conversation pain points Dec 20, 2024

There’s a tough conversation I’ve been meaning to have with a coworker for several months, but I put it off.

I put it off partially because I wanted to ask her to change how her team does some things. My reasons are noble: I want her team to do things more consistently with standard project managem...

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How to Interview Your Project Sponsor people Dec 13, 2024

Some project managers are lucky enough to be handed a thorough project charter document when they’re first assigned to a project, complete with all the information they need to get the project started.

But for many of us, the process is more organic: when a sponsor brings us a project, only some of...

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