Leaders or MBA
I love knowledge, I love learning. I am a professional accountant, and as part of my mandatory professional development, I always prefer to take formal courses that lead to a formal diploma. But I...
View ArticleKnow Yourself
To be a good leaders, it is important to know yourself. Personality tests can be useful to improve how we perceive ourselves, and to understand the impact of our personality on other business...
View ArticleThe impact of bad management
As a boss, it is easy to blame employees who don’t perform at the desired level. In a sense, it is also relatively easy to help them and offer solution. It is much harder to deal with boss that do not...
View ArticleYou are a leader, you should know these harsh facts
I like this article, entitled 5 Harsh Truths Every Aspiring Leader Needs to Know. A leader can become too obsess with the objectives, deliverables, project success, and forget those important truths....
View ArticleA few articles on leadership
Here is a collection of article of posts on leadership that are interesting read: Enjoy the reading! PM hut 5 Things Remarkable Leaders Do to Succeed May 3rd, 2013 Innovate “Innovation comes from...
View ArticleFailure on the path to success
Failure happens. Unfortunately. It is not fun. Nobody wants to celebrate failure. Nobody is proud of a failed project. That is easy to understand. And I do not wish to anybody to fail. That is...
View ArticleProject Manager Personalities
Yes, there are standards, PMBOK, tools, techniques, methodologies and all of that. It makes it look as if project management can be robotized. In reality, project management is a very human activity....
View ArticleLearn to delegate early
Delegation seems to be one of the hardest skills to develop for many persons. Delegation is an important skill to have when managing a team. As anyone progresses in their career, it become even more...
View ArticlePodcast : Guerilla Project Management
I have been discovering lately podcasts. It is an interesting format, and let me maximize my time by listening to something when I am in transit, running, training, or other activities like that. My...
View ArticleOn project success
As project manager, we offer a professional service to help organization successfully completing projects and thus helping organizations achieve their objectives. Well, at least, we hope so. Let’s...
View ArticleGuest Post: Planning Project Human Resource Management
The PMBOK describes “Plan Human Resource Management” as the process of identifying and documenting project roles and responsibilities, determining the skills required to perform in those roles,...
View ArticleDefining project success
Question of the day Here is a question on project management that I read today. It immediately caught my attention. Do you understand what success looks like before starting, or do you get stuck...
View ArticleProjects and operations in project-based organizations
Projects and operations Project management is often viewed in opposition of operations. It is also important to know and understand projects and operations in the context of project-based...
View ArticlePMFlashBlog2 Project Management Around the World / Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,...
Welcome to the PMFLashBlog2 Project Management Around the World. Here is my contribution from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, North America. PMFlashBlog Round 1 Welcome to the PMFlashBlog, a Project...
View ArticleProject Management Video – How to Slay the Dragon of Work Chaos
Project Management Video Interesting project management video can be found on YouTube. Here is video in which AtTask discusses work chaos. Software development and test/QA teams are under tremendous...
View ArticleProject Leadership Coach – Discover Susanne Madsen
Project Leadership Project Managers often come from a technical background. And then project management methodologies make them focus on intellectual activities such as planning, tasks, milestones,...
View ArticlePeople in Project Management
People in project management Did you forget about people? Project management can easily only be defined as an activity performed to achieved an objective: a new product, a new service, a research, a...
View Articlewinning support for your project
Beyond the project plan Here’s an interesting question. After all, even if you are an expert on the subject of your project and have developed a very good and comprehensive plan, you may still hit...
View Article7 tips to prepare for an interview
7 tips to prepare for an interview The job search project Searching for a job is always an interesting journey. It is rare that we are an expert in the job search process. while it is true that we...
View ArticleProject Management Video – The Expert
This is an excellent project management video. The video is presenting an important problem that happens unfortunately too often. Key mistakes that can destroy a project Bad leadership from...
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