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How To Deal With the Renegade Team Member
Every once in a while – maybe even more often than that – you experience a renegade team member who wants to do things his way rather than what you've tried to set as the norm. When this happens, the project manager has to decide whether to act and what to do if they...
Assessing Risk in Project Management
The Scout Motto is "Be prepared". I don't know if a study has ever been done to determine whether former scouts make better project managers, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a correlation. The most successful project managers I know are prepared for almost...
Project Risk and the FedEx Truck
I recently went on a family vacation to Vermont. Even while I was admiring the beautiful green mountains of that state, I couldn't help but get distracted thinking about project risk. We were visiting some family who took us on a drive to Stowe, VT. It was a beautiful...
Project Management Role: Removing Obstacles
When the role of project manager is brought up in every day conversation, many people think of the task-master, always trying to get status from the team member, reminding him of just how late he is on his task. One can almost picture the PM standing there pointing to...
Strategy: Focus on the Target
Imagine that you are planning a vacation from Chicago to visit a friend in Los Angeles. As part of that trip you decide that driving and seeing the countryside will be a great way to enjoy the trip. A little south of Chicago, you get on Interstate-80 and start heading...
Just Do It My Way
Do you like the toilet paper to roll up from the bottom? Or do you prefer that roll down from the top? Chances are that you have a preference. I deliberately ignore the direction of the role when I replace it (yes, I do replace it). By doing this, it rolls from the...