Alison Green

MARCH 5, 2024

I was hired to be a project manager and am now effectively an administrative assistant. The job I interviewed for was listed as a project manager at a very large company. The job description clearly outlined expectations of a project manager and seemed to perfectly align with my background.

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Mike Griffiths

JANUARY 26, 2023

I'm excited to announce that the new PM Illustrated Audio/Video Book is now available! Her narration is excellent, and she brings the PM Illustrated book content to life. Project management is a dynamic, vibrant career, so don't study for the PMP exam with dry, boring content.

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Mike Griffiths

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

  Using mind-maps, cartoons, and short summaries it covered the agile manifesto, the declaration of interdependence for agile project management, and each of the 7 Domains and 60 Tasks covered in the PMI-ACP exam. This book is ready now and readers of this blog can get special pre-release pricing of $4.99

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Mike Griffiths

AUGUST 20, 2021

Images that are surprising for the context, such as using animals to show project management topics, are “stickier” in our brains. In the book “ Made to Stick ”, authors Chip and Dan Heath explain we remember things that are simple, unexpected, and emotional. Animal cartoons about project management do all three.

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Mike Griffiths

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

While explaining project management through cartoon animals is fun, I wanted to post some meatier content here. The material comes from my Beyond Agile book and explains why a firm basis of EI is critical to becoming an effective Scrum Master, team lead, or project manager.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

MARCH 5, 2020

“ Dear Elizabeth: Can you help me with starting right on an international project? I will be responsible for the delivery of 3 projects in Australia and New Zealand. I have a formal project management certification, but managing projects with international teams is new to me. Managing Time Differences.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

MARCH 8, 2023

Recently, it’s felt like my work as a project manager has been all about making sure the right people are lined up to do their tasks at the right time. Here are seven tips to improve resource management across your complex portfolio. It is a useful resource management technique in project management, so it’s worth knowing how.

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Mike Griffiths

MARCH 2, 2022

This is post #2 in a multi-post series about EI and leadership taken from my book Beyond Agile. One popular model is Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence model, popularized in the book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ. Check out Post #1 first, if you have not seen it already. So, stay tuned for more. 

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Mike Griffiths

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the book  The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety , author Timothy Clark outlines a model for understanding psychological safety. As the book title states, it progresses through four stages: Inclusion Safety  is the basic human need to belong and be accepted by a group. One approach is not necessarily better than the other.

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Alison Green

JULY 24, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: We are a semi-remote team that uses a project management system to keep our workflow organized and distribute assignments. One of my employees, Jane, feels it is necessary to look at everyone’s work on this system and comment on it.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Hi readers, I’m so, so excited that my upcoming book is dropping in one week, on December 7!! The Cold Start Problem , as the book is called, is about the secret that drives many of tech’s most successful products. I’ve been working on it for years, and am thrilled that it’ll finally be out.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again. Most importantly, practice what you preach.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

AUGUST 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence can help project managers do their jobs more easily and efficiently. LiquidPlanner delivers this predictive artificial intelligence for project managers. This way you’ll know right away if your team has the bandwidth and resources to take on that new project. About the Author.

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Thought Leaders LLC

JANUARY 8, 2024

Today’s guest post is b y Kim Wasson, a principal at thought LEADERS and author of The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills That Prevent Hard Days (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Kim Wasson describes a straightforward process for determining what might go wrong and whether it’s worth worrying about.

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Mike Griffiths

MARCH 9, 2022

Viktor Frankl, a doctor and survivor of the Second World War’s German concentration camps, found a way to manage the horrors of these camps that sent many people into depression and despair. He wrote about this stimulus-to-response gap in his book Man’s Search for Meaning.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

JULY 27, 2022

To effectively lead a project to completion, I think we agree that many soft skills are needed to manage a project team and timelines successfully. Being an effective communicator is Job One for the Project Manager. If this is a problem you’re facing, try a project management solution like LiquidPlanner.

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AIHR

JULY 25, 2022

Project management 13. If you don’t have that ability to influence and to communicate, to make a compelling argument and back it up and stand by it firmly, it’s going to be really hard,” observes Lars Schmidt , founder of Amplify and Redefining HR Accelerator, and author of the best-selling book, Redefining HR.

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UVA Darden

JANUARY 21, 2025

Missing the Mark on A Project? fosterl Tue, 01/21/2025 - 10:11 Image 22 January 2025 Leadership & Management Data & Analytics In our research on project management, we've observed that leaders frequently face critical decisions under uncertainty. Here's a Way to Get Back on Track.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In his groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence from 1995, Daniel Goleman explains that emotional intelligence is about twice as important as cognitive ability for positions at every level. An emotionally unregulated project manager might instantly get angry and openly display that anger.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Ask any project manager why projects fail, and you’ll get a long list of reasons. One of the things at the top of most lists will be people: specifically, not having buy-in for the project. Effective project management, supported by the right technology, sets the tone for convincing others to commit to a project.

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Mike Griffiths

JUNE 22, 2022

This is part one in a series on leading agile teams from the Beyond Agile book. Leadership has been around far longer than project management (which primarily grew from the Industrial Revolution.) There are over 70,000 published English-language books on leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership.

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Liquid Planner Leadership

MAY 24, 2022

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Project teams frequently confuse risk analysis for risk management. Hillson, D.

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Mike Griffiths

JANUARY 2, 2022

This live 7-week online book-club / self-study program works as follows: Read one chapter of my PMI-ACP Exam Prep book each week. Frequently asked questions: Q: Does the course include a copy of my PMI-ACP Exam Prep book? A: No, you will need to have or buy your own copy of my book.

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Monday Task Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Investing in task management — the core function of your day-to-day business activity —can contribute to long-term success. In fact, marketers that are proactive about project management are 3.5x This is especially true when it comes to either creating or improving your business’ digital presence.

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Monday Task Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Investing in task management — the core function of your day-to-day business activity —can contribute to long-term success. In fact, marketers that are proactive about project management are 3.5x This is especially true when it comes to either creating or improving your business’ digital presence.

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Thought Leaders LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The Leadership Driven Method to Performance Management can help senior leaders in the public and not-for-profit sectors make informed decisions and meet their strategic goals. .

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Liquid Planner Productivity

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

If your competing deadlines come from one manager…. One of the strategies I covered in my book, Managing Multiple Projects, dealt with this situation: one manager or project sponsor gives you lots of work and says it’s all important. You may already have this in a project management software tool.

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Walk Me

AUGUST 14, 2023

Most change management projects will start by establishing clear baselines and targets. Change control is also highly relevant in any kind of project management. When some part of a project needs to change, the change control process ensures that the processes happen promptly and effectively.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 8, 2022

Use the right project management software to track progress, make changes to the plan and work intelligently with colleagues. Book the same desk. Do yourself a favor and book the same desk every time. My role is to provide information to the decision-makers and talk through the projects if they want to know more.

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Mike Griffiths

MAY 4, 2020

Are you looking for an expert in leadership, agile, or project management? If you like the ideas on this site or in my books, please get in touch, I would love to discuss opportunities to work together. Do you need relevant, high-quality articles for your corporate website? I am available for remote work. Details.

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15Five

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The methodology was created by former Intel CEO Andy Grove, then introduced to the general public by John Doerr, who outlined it in his book, Measure What Matters. In the book, Doerr shares how using OKR goals has helped companies like Intel, Google, and Microsoft achieve exponential growth. Increase NPS score from 6.5 What is Scrum?

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Software Project Management Employee Engagement Metrics 92

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Mike Griffiths

MARCH 30, 2020

" Once we see projects as puzzles with more puzzles within them, we realize the importance of practical problem-solving. Rarely do project managers have all the answers or the  best  answers. Books such as  Visual Collaboration  walk readers through the drawing process.

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Wendy Hirsch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The team should consist of members with diverse skills such as project management, technical expertise, training, measurement, and communication. For example, aim to ensure that project management and front-line staff functions are represented, rather than that Bob from the PMO and Kathy from customer service are always on the team.

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Mike Griffiths

MAY 1, 2020

Neither black nor white, predictive nor agile, project managers are increasingly finding themselves in the gray area of hybrid project management. Either way, sometimes we do not get to do everything by the book and we have to work with what we are given. Gray areas occupy the transition from one world to the next.

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