7 Deadly Sins of Project Management
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We all make mistakes. Project managers are certainly no exception - though as a profession we tend to be placed under much scrutiny at times and therefore those mistakes may become big news and can be - depending on the mistake - quite damaging and costly to the projects we are running.
What they are saying about it...
"Dead on, Brad. Excellent book and I think most all of us have committed these regularly. Reading this will help us be better PMs on our next project and recognize these deadly sins in advance. Thanks!"
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A Real World Project Manager's Guide to the Successful Project
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I like to think of project management in terms of best practices – and I personally define that as...
“Logical steps that systematically help the leader or manager of a project oversee the work of a team of individuals and the customer to efficiently and effectively work in steps to best ensure a successful engagement.”
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I like to think of project management in terms of best practices – and I personally define that as...
“Logical steps that systematically help the leader or manager of a project oversee the work of a team of individuals and the customer to efficiently and effectively work in steps to best ensure a successful engagement.”
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What readers saying...
"Best direction I've received in 2018 - a must read for logical PM steps to successful delivery"
"Great takeaways - highly recommend"
"Must reading for all PMOs, Brad's info is spot-on"
"5 stars! Thanks for sharing your straightforward project management knowledge and style... keep up the great work!"
"Best direction I've received in 2018 - a must read for logical PM steps to successful delivery"
"Great takeaways - highly recommend"
"Must reading for all PMOs, Brad's info is spot-on"
"5 stars! Thanks for sharing your straightforward project management knowledge and style... keep up the great work!"
PPM Benefits for the Project Management Office
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Key Considerations for Creating the Right Project Management Infrastructure Coming February 2018 for free download The world of project management is more complicated than most people realize. It isn't about just organizing a group of tasks and then executing on those tasks. It's much more than that. It's all about first defining a project practice that will work, then building structure around that practice, then executing on that practice, etc... |
Advancing Your Project Management Career
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Only you can make the call on how and when to proceed doing your next or first path to project management directions in your career. Is the time right now? Next year? Are you looking for more responsibility – or just tired of what you're doing. Both are good reasons to change – though I'd take the former over the latter because jumping into a PM career is no small step, it certainly isn't easy and it is not without it's on immense challenges and responsibilities.
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Only you can make the call on how and when to proceed doing your next or first path to project management directions in your career. Is the time right now? Next year? Are you looking for more responsibility – or just tired of what you're doing. Both are good reasons to change – though I'd take the former over the latter because jumping into a PM career is no small step, it certainly isn't easy and it is not without it's on immense challenges and responsibilities.
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Whether you are looking to become a project manager, currently are a project manager and interested in moving your PM career along or to another organization, or are interested in taking the next step into upper-level management in yours or another organization, this eBook should be of some value to you.
Creative Project Stakeholders - Who, What, and Why?
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Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. Creative project stakeholders. They’re everywhere. They aren’t just your executives or your team members or the creative project sponsors. Some are heavily involved in the creative project, some you’ll see or hear from once and some you won’t hear from at all. Some will have financial involvement and some will just want to know when the campaign or marketing undertaking is complete. But they are out there. And you have to make room for them — they are very important to the creative project. |
Ensuring Maximum Profitability on Your Next Creative Project
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Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. It would be nice if money weren’t an issue. It can get in the way of our creative juices. And we can’t continue to operate very long if we are not profitable. We may lose money on any given project, and that’s OK as long as our organization is sustainable and it gives us a strategic advantage. But long term, we need to make money to survive. Therefore, paying attention to the bottom line as we manage the creative process is critical. |
Cultivating and Maintaining the Client/Vendor Relationship on Your Next Creative Project
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Our project client is of utmost importance. Whether that is an internal business unit utilizing our creative team for a product release or ad campaign, or an external client who has tasked us with helping them roll out their next project, our client is critical. I’m not saying we serve them at all costs. But it is their money — they do contribute to our bottom line. So their satisfaction is of the utmost importance.
Closing Out the Creative Project the Right Way
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Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. With any project management undertaking, making sure that it gets off on the right foot is critical. You know the saying; “You only get one chance to make a good first impression.” Just as important is how you shut things down; the little – and big – things you do to make sure all of your bases are covered, the client is pleased with how things went and senior management views the outcome positively. |
Taking the Creative Project from Concept to Kickoff
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Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. The process of handing a project engagement from sales to project management is definitely one of my pet peeves. Many a project has started out on the wrong foot because the earliest – and very critical – high-level scoping phase of the project is often being performed by someone without any formal project management experience. The end result? A project customer who walks away happy that they will be getting ‘x’, a sales person who walks away happy because they sold ‘y’ for top dollar, and a project manager who is getting ‘z’ to deliver. |
Common Roles on the Creative Project
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Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. Any project — be it a creative industry project, a very technical project, a business strategy or process project, or something in between — is usually going to comprise the same basic key project functional roles. The roles don’t change much, but the expertise and background of the individuals filling those roles will change depending on the process, technology, industry and strategy involved in the project. |
Planning Your Project Like a Pro
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What they are saying about it...
"I just downloaded it. It would be a valuable guidance for everyone who would learn more about project management. Thank you for sharing."
"Thank you for sharing your lessons learned, knowledge and experiences - this is what true and real project managers demonstrate consistently."
"This should be mandatory reading for government project managers."
Tracking Project Status Throughout the Engagement
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What they are saying about it...
"Brad, you nailed it in this book. Everyone responsible for running projects should read this eBook."
The Essentials of Project Communication Success
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What they are saying about it...
"Project communication drives the project. This book is a must read. Keep these books coming Brad! Thank you!"
Coming soon: Six Essential Steps to Project Success
Coming June 2015
No one individual and no processes we currently know of can guarantee
successes on the projects we manage. As many as 74% of all projects prove to be failures to some degree or in someone’s opinion. What we can do is practice best practices, plan well, try to re-enact what worked in the past on similar projects, and avoid those things that we know caused us or our colleagues problems on similar implementations in recent memory. If we don’t learn lessons from our own actions and from the actions of others then we are likely to repeat the same mistakes over and over again and experience the same project failures over and over again.
Managing the Performance of Red Hat Virtual Infrastructures
While virtualization offers many benefits, it also makes performance management harder than before. Often this is attributable to the fact that in a virtualized environment it can become much harder to pinpoint the underlying cause of a performance issue and the owners of each service layer in your IT organization may actually ‘see’ their area of oversight as performing as expected. Virtualization, coupled with a dynamic environment – meaning VMs can be moving dynamically from one physical machine to another – can make the diagnosis of the underlying issue extremely difficult. That’s why a powerful dashboard and diagnostic tool with a 360˚ view like the one eG Innovations offers is critical to your organization’s VDI success.
I created this white paper to showcase eG Innovations' Enterprise solution to Virtualization Performance Management and walk the reader through problematic scenarios and how the eG Enterprise tool drills down through the service layers in a virtualized organization to pinpoint the true cause of the performance issue.
I created this white paper to showcase eG Innovations' Enterprise solution to Virtualization Performance Management and walk the reader through problematic scenarios and how the eG Enterprise tool drills down through the service layers in a virtualized organization to pinpoint the true cause of the performance issue.
RealPM: A Hybrid PM Methodology for Real Life IT Project Management
Coming... eventually.
Offering a step-by-step project management life cycle practice, or adoptable project management methodology, if you will. Great for the consulting PM, the small startup organization, or the large IT shop that has yet to reach the point of repeatable, sound IT project management practices. My processes can be easily adopted to fit your non-IT project management needs as well.
Should be available by mid 2015 as a PDF book for purchase through PayPal. Check back here and look for updates on Twitter @begeland.
Project Management for the Masses
Release - TBA.
A real life working guide to project management. Covering everything from the project management lifecycle, the project management office (PMO), what makes PM work and what doesn't, lessons learned, PM consulting, etc. Lots of real world information, templates, examples, and advice from a professional with more than 19 years of project management experience and 25 years total in the information technology industry.
Work in progress - so no date set as of now. Will be available as a PDF book for purchase through PayPal. Check back here and look for updates on Twitter @begeland.
