Project managers: you are part of the project team

Project managers: you are part of the project team

The Project Team Project Management is all about adding value. A project is created to deliver a specific result, which should be aligned with the strategic objective of an organization. To complete the project, resources are identified, and a project team is created....
A study on the new role of digital project manager

A study on the new role of digital project manager

Digital Project Manager Software Advice publishes periodically interesting study on project management and the job market for project manager.  I published a link to one of their reports in a recent post: Requirements for project manager. Software advice recently...
Changing the project manager during the project

Changing the project manager during the project

The ideal scenario The project management theory is built on an ideal scenario.  A project is initiated, a sponsor assigns a project manager, a team is selected (hopefully by the project manager based on competencies required), and everything is done by that team...
Get an edge as a parent

Get an edge as a parent

Many project managers have to try to reconcile their life as a project manager and being a parent.  I am one of them living this challenge, having two kids.  And I am inspired today by one of my friend, a project manager who just had his second child.  How can we live...
Project Manager Personalities

Project Manager Personalities

Yes, there are standards, PMBOK, tools, techniques, methodologies and all of that.  It makes it look as if project management can be robotized. In reality, project management is a very human activity.  The job of a project manager is to achieve an objective, and...
Habits for project managers

Habits for project managers

Despite all attempts to plan correctly and in details a project, a successful project manager will always have to manage the chaotic reality of a project, with its unknown, risks and surprises. A good project manager should have developed the right habits to manage...
Time management

Time management

Time is one of the essential component of project management.  For a project manager, it is important to consider your time as precious, and manage it accordingly.  You will not optimize your time management, until you start to consider your time as very precious....