Project Planning with Sticky Notes
In this video, you will learn what a Work Breakdown Structure is and how to create it using sticky notes.
What Are You Working On? How is the Project Going?
Whether you are standing in line in the cafeteria or walking across the office lobby, you run into people who want to hear what you are working on. It helps to be prepared for these ad-hoc encounters and view them as informal opportunities for building credibility and relationships.
How to Present, Part 3, Preparing for a Large Audience
Apart from the stage fright that many of us feel, presenting to a large audience is usually easier than presenting or facilitating for a small group.
How to Interview Stakeholders, Part 2
In the first part of this series I explored what makes a good stakeholder interview in general. In this article, I will write about how to use open questions, sketches and thinking out loud during stakeholder interviews. These techniques from the fields of usability and user experience can make interviews with project stakeholders more effective.
How to Interview Stakeholders, Part 1
A good interview helps us understand expectations, gain insights and win people for our cause. For project managers, interviewing is an important technique for clarifying stakeholder requirements. What makes a good interview? I'll be exploring this in several parts. In this article, I cover preparing for and conducting a stakeholder interview.
New Years Resolutions for Project Managers
Most of us make resolutions for the new year. And almost as many of us break them. “Research shows that about 80 percent of people who make resolutions on Jan. 1 fall off the wagon by Valentine’s Day,” says Marti Hope Gonzales, associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, according to the