Paul Stefanski
Creating alignment with your stakeholders
Beyond the stakeholder register: Is stakeholder analysis worth your time?
Finding the hidden stakeholder
Why project managers need both, a broad vision, and a focused energy for details
Eminent physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson styled it this way: we need both focused frogs and visionary birds. “Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizons,” Dyson wrote in 2009. “They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together
How do your skills transfer to project management: PMBOK 7 Principles and Project Domains
The question is often asked “How do my current skills transfer to project management?”
Many folks, from many fields, including the sciences, education, marketing and sales are often interested in adding the project management skill-set to their repertoire.
The table below lists the 12 Project Principles (P) and the 8
Two ways project mangers can seek to solve problems. One way is better.
Projects have problems.
Stakeholders and teams, made up of people, brings different perspectives which may create obstacles to the project.
Every single process ever invented is fraught with flaw. All will break at some point.
How can project managers go about solving every problem they face?
Why bother?
Problems left
How analogical thinking can improve your problem solving (and your project managment) skills
So there you are. Head on your desk.
It has been a few hours. At least.
Maybe more.
And your mind is stuck.
It could be your tired.
Maybe caffeine is the answer.
You are feeling stuck as problem solver.
Maybe its time to stop thinking about the inside view
Why project leaders need to be able to define wicked and kind learning environments
Projects come in all shapes and sizes. They also live in various kinds of environments. Your organizational culture and context matters. Your industry matters. Who your stakeholders are, matter.
And as you are about to launch your project into the wider world, you need to understand the difference between kind
What is the number one skill for project managers to become project leaders?
If I were to boil down the transition between Project Manger to Project Leader, I would say: be a Problem Solver.
Taking notes, writing status, updating dates? All good stuff. But that is not problem solving.
Thinking your methodology will fit any situation? There’s a failure to listen in