blogs at 5 50 pm no comments friday may 28 2010 prince2 2009 foundation introductory module posted by pm blogs at 1 31 pm no comments prince2 process model introduction prince2 training posted by pm blogs at 1 30 pm no comments prince2 made simple posted by pm blogs at 1 14 pm no comments international project management award posted by pm blogs at 11 50 am no comments tuesday march 23 2010 top ten skills for project managers by lisa maclean wentworth institute of technologyboston massachusetts usa usa1 if you re going to put the fox in charge of the henhouse plan on losing some chickens . if the project manager pm is seeing the project only as a means of showcasing themselves and their talents or a way to bring negative and or false information regarding coworkers to management you can lose your best people . this can work as a way to make the messenger look superior make other team members look bad or to shift blame . it will anger the better workers and send the poorer ones scurrying for their resumes coming out of the shared laser printer . both reactions suction energy from the project . if a project starts missing deadlines and people are backbiting and finger pointing the fox is on the job . people start to leave . job quality falls but it s everyone s fault but the project manager who praises you to your face but trashes you to higher ups which you discover at evaluation time . 2 a good project manager is respectful to everyone not just the important people . there are many unsung heroes of the information age . the data entry people have tedious jobs yet are your first line of defense when it comes to keeping data clean . the person who cleans your work area so that you can have a nicer space deserves the same courtesy and respect as the supervisor who comes by and interprets your uncluttered desk as a sign of an organized mind . anyone wearing a name tag should be greeted by their name . an effective project manager knows to make everyone feel important to the project and that they have a stake in its success . this kind of project manager gets projects done and generates good will for the next project . a good measure of this is that other project members are speaking positively about that pm . click here to read entire paper about the author author lisa maclean lisa maclean is assistant professor of computer science and systems at wentworth institute of technology in boston . she worked in industry doing programming systems analysis and design and network and database administration for over a decade before taking her faculty appointment at the wentworth institute of technology in boston massachusetts . she is a graduate of rhode island college and bentley university . lisa can be contacted at macleanl wit.edu . posted by pm blogs at 11 23 pm no comments thursday january 14 2010 it s all about commitment one of the biggest challenges a practitioner project manager can face is a project with a tight deadline . given today s economic and market conditions that is a very common trend nowadays . but the key to drive a project of this kind in its way to success is held by people so in order to get what is needed from these people it is extremely important to gain their commitment to the project since the very beginning . but what exactly is commitment how can it be defined it can be described as a shared vision a vision that makes people work in synergy to achieve any given objective . commitment is a sum of many factors including at least understanding of business needs willingness communication sincerity negotiation and conflict resolutionread the entire article at pm world today . posted by pm blogs at 8 52 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom project smart project management articles loading ... followers blog archive 2014 1 november 1 coming soon project management agile and sustain ... 2010 19 may 4 march 1 january 14 2009 30 december 18 october 5 july 4 may 2 march 1 2008 26 december 22 october 4 awesome inc. template . powered by blogger .