By Erin Palmer Project managers are tasked with the responsibility of keeping projects on task and delivered to a client within a specified time frame. The idea of keeping a project focused might seem like an easy job in theory, […]
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Freakonomics of pdu
The Professional Project Management certification (PMP®) is going very well. As a matter of fact, according to Wikipedia figures, there were 393,413 PMP® certified individuals in 2010. With each active PMP® required to maintain and complete 60 PDUs every […]
How to Create a Strong Team for a Project
By Erin Palmer Effective leaders know that building a strong team is the key to project success. Creating the best possible team requires smart hiring, proper delegation and clear communication. Here are some tips for putting together a successful team: […]
The Project Risk Weekly Launched
The Project Risk Weekly was launched to aggregate news and articles of interest concerning project risk management. The articles are searched automatically by a web crawler bot scanning a list of web sites featuring articles that match certain word criteria. […]
Cutting-Edge Project Management: What game theory and Poker can teach us
As Project Management continues to grow around the world and become increasingly commoditized, more specialization will be necessary in order to secure the best opportunities. One of these areas of specialization that will have increased demand in the future, I […]
The Social-Media Standard for Project Management
With the rise of social media in projects and organizations, there is a renewed need for some kind of guidance. This guide should be clear, concise and free of ambiguity. It should further the interests of the project while protecting […]
10 Reasons why you should give a Name and a Logo for your projects
I used to work for a company that had the unusual habit of giving a name and a logo for every project in the company’s portfolio. While this habit felt somewhat out of place at the beginning, I have to […]
Project Management Product Review: The pdu Podcast
I had the opportunity to listen and learn more 3 topics from The PDU Podcast. The topics I listened to were “High Performing PMOs”, ”Managing Teams in a Virtual World” and “The Strategic Project Leader “. I said listen because […]
Systemic Project Management: 7 rules for success
Systemic Project Management deals with the notion of systems theory applied to project management. It takes project management to a whole new level by analyzing the project as a system of interconnected elements. If you are not familiar with this […]
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I have to say that when I had the opportunity to listen and review one of Cornelius Fitchtner ‘s products, The PDU Podcast, I jumped right on it. After all, Cornelius has been a familiar voice to me since before […]
