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My team was asked this week if a staff person could be added to our project management software so he could initiate contracts.

We do use our project management software to initiate some contracts, and adding this person to the software so he can use the existing contract request form would be one ...

Projects regularly have setbacks, problems, or need some other type of update or regroup. When that happens, how often do people come to you with this information, or how often do you need to find the disconnect on your own by digging through project software, records, etc.?

As project managers, we...

Last week, I asked my boss for help.

I’ve written extensively about the techniques I’ve used on my own to gain back capacity and reduce stress in my job as a project leader. I’ve implemented mindset shifts, practical tactics, and everything in-between. And it’s all made a difference.

But unfortuna...

You may very well be new to the project management community. But for those of us who’ve been in the profession awhile, we’ve witnessed a hype around agile project methodologies come and, in large part, go.

Previously, predictive methodologies were the norm in project management. When projects are ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what to do if you’re overwhelmed by too many problems to solve in your project management role, and I showed you why many types of problems don’t actually need to be solved, or not yet.

In this blog, I’d like to show you an additional “answer” to feelings of overwhelm...

In the last year or two, I’ve started supporting projects in areas of my company that do technical work I don’t understand well: software, data, and finance. I add a lot of value to these teams with my skills in leading people through a process. But understanding the steps that need to happen in thi...

I don’t know that I thought too much about decision-making growing up, because it wasn’t until I reached adulthood that some decisions started to feel genuinely hard. Maybe that’s because as a kid, I found myself within a structure that generations of adults before me had created to guide me toward ...

The job of a project manager can be described in many ways. One of those ways is “problem solver,” as we are constantly solving problems on multiple levels. In the course of monitoring the progress of our projects, we solve problems to keep them moving. In the course of developing project plans, we ...

Project managers: have you had the experience of being brought into a project too late?

Maybe everyone else on the project team has already been informed about the project and begun work, and someone finally thought to contact you “so somebody can keep track of things.”

Or maybe you’ve overheard a...

As a project manager who supports over 100 active projects at a time, I have a decent volume of personal tasks or actions to manage in order to keep those projects on track.

This isn’t easy, and I’ve developed and combined many strategies in my 8 years in the field to keep my own workload manageabl...