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- Don't Micro-manage: Hold Your Team Accountable for End ResultsDecember 2
- Don't Micro-manage: Hold Your Team Accountable for End Results PMs who try and micro-manage every nit-picking detail go down in flames once their project teams exceed 2-3 people. Good people don't do their best work and don't feel accountable for anything when the PM micro-manages them. Far better to manage with end results and have a team who knows what is expected of them before they start work.
- 5 Dumbest Things a Project Manager Can SayNovember 18
- We've identified the dumbest things that a PM can say to a sponsor or team member. We take you through the life-cycle with examples of all the bad moves.
- Fast Food Project ManagementNovember 6
- Are users and clients pulling up to your project drive-in window and just shouting their requirements? Initiating projects like the drive-in window at a burger place always yeilds two results, project failure rates over 50% and unhappy executives and users. See how to do initiation the right way.
- Classic Project BlundersOctober 21
- Video: Project planning blunder #1. An organization faced with a serious external threat assembles its senior management to respond with a PM to manage the effort. Watch the video and spot where the PM made his mistakes and decide, just like our 4PM.com students do, what the PM should have done to carry the day.
- Project methodology - 5 step processOctober 7
- Watch the video and see the steps in a straightforward project methodology, based on driving projects to produce measured business results. The Acheivement-driven Project Methodology (AdPM™)is scalable so you can use it on all size projects. It improves estimating accuracy, provides measured checkpoints for executives and assignment clarity for team members.