How to Conduct a Lessons Learned Session

Posted by Josh Nankivel in Blogs, Josh Nankivel: PM Student Blog

We all know that gathering lessons learned is a best practice and part of our professional responsibility. But that doesn’t mean that we all do it. If the reason you do not is because you don’t know exactly HOW to conduct a lessons learned session or you think conducting a lessons learned session is too

Requirements Management: The Foundation for Project Success

Posted by Raechel Logan in Blogs, Raechel Logan: The Team Member Advocate

For most of my life, I dreamed of being an architect. I’m a creative to the core and in high school I loved my art, drafting, AutoCAD, and architectural drawing classes. But I was really only interested in the drawing … Continue reading →

The Five Whys or Bring Your Inner Child to Work

Posted by Josh Nankivel in Blogs, Josh Nankivel: PM Student Blog

There is something that most toddlers do that is a good business practice. They ask ‘Why’. At a certain stage they ask why to just about everything. This is probably preferable to the stage where they say “NO!” to everything. Yet I can see where this gets tiring. It seems that no matter how patient

The Pied Piper of Leadership

Posted by Deanne Earle in Blogs, Deanne Earle: Change Through Action Blog

On a recent trip to NZ I finally had time to visit the Hard to Find (but worth the effort) Book Shop in Auckland. It’s actually quite easy to find if you know where to look and once you’re in there very easy to get lost amongst the huge and ecl…

Four Tips for Successful Virtual Meetings

Posted by Josh Nankivel in Blogs, Josh Nankivel: PM Student Blog

Virtual meetings are not going away anytime soon. If anything we will have more and more of them. As we reach out globally, yet cut back on spending (goodbye travel expenses), we will continue to meet in virtual conference rooms all over the planet. Like any well run meeting, you need to prepare, you need

Work Prioritization: How to Stop Being Prisoners of the “Urgent”

Posted by Raechel Logan in Blogs, Raechel Logan: The Team Member Advocate

Why is saying the word “no” so difficult sometimes? Especially at work, it seems like we half expect our colleagues to react to the answer of “no” by either thinking we’re complete slackers who aren’t team players or by throwing … Continue reading →

The Accidental Project Manager

Posted by Josh Nankivel in Blogs, Josh Nankivel: PM Student Blog

Josh Nankivel who created the pmStudent community that we all now enjoy, was an accidental project manager. Well me too! And maybe you as well. Apparently it is not all that unusual that some of us stumbled upon project management In fact last week I was on the phone with a client (he was learning

My Perspective on Remote Work

Posted by Derek Huether in Blogs, Derek Huether: The Critical Path Blog

The proclamation by Marissa Mayer last month, informing Yahoo employees that working from home is no longer an option, really seemed to bring an important conversation front and center. The…

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It’s All In The DNA

Posted by Deanne Earle in Blogs, Deanne Earle: Change Through Action Blog

It’s not often I register for a webcast but something about the Deloitte’s IWD (International Women’s Day) 2013 one piqued my interest. The subject was ‘Inclusive Leadership as the missing link for advancing women’ and it got me thinking

And The Winners Are

Posted by Deanne Earle in Blogs, Deanne Earle: Change Through Action Blog

The Academy Awards ceremony, otherwise known as The Oscars, was held on Sunday 24 February 2013. A night of glitz and glamour where gongs are given, speeches made and the occasional mishap occurs.

On this same night another glittering star-studd…