Your Time Is Valuable
I was talking with another project manager this week about a meeting they attended. In this meeting, they…
Achieve the Goal, Don’t Just Fulfill the Request.
My team was asked this week if a staff person could be added to our project management software…
Some Hard Decisions Don’t Have to Be Hard
I don’t know that I thought too much about decision-making growing up, because it wasn’t until I reached…
“Tasks” and “Puzzles”: Easier Work Management with Categories
As a project manager who supports over 100 active projects at a time, I have a decent volume…
Don’t Automatically Accept Others’ Timelines
As project managers, requests tend to fly at us all day. From project changes and status requests to…
A Busy Project Manager Finding the Courage to Slow Down
I am not being paid to read or promote the book discussed below. I love being a project…
Project Management is a “People Engineering” Job
In high school I spent some time exploring engineering as a career field. I had a very logical…
Good Decisions Can Have Poor Outcomes
Sometimes you run across a little nugget on the internet—a graphic, a video, a quote, whatever—that you find…
Decisions and Actions: A Project Manager’s Meeting Notes
As a project manager, I suspect you’re in a fair number of meetings. I hope those meetings are…
Grow as a Project Manager by Adding to Your Toolbox
The more I write about project management, the more I find myself talking about the “tools I have…