If you’re managing a Project Management Office (PMO) or just responsible for improving the project management culture, you may be faced with the question about just how much change management to implement. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide –...
3P Method of Conflict Management: Pause, Pivot, Positive By Kerry Wekelo Remember your first team assignment in school and the challenges of working with such a diverse group of people—from the slacker to the overachiever, the complainer to the model communicator? Now...
I’ve always felt that before you can lead a team you must first understand human behavior and specifically what motivates a typical team member. In Daniel Pink’s book Drive he summarizes studies performed by psychologists Harry Harlow and Edward Deci in 1971 and...
Kanban Essentials: Improving How We Work by Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP Agile practices are sweeping through the project management industry and are being used in software development, organizational leadership and even news reporting. According to the Standish Group,...
If Agile is Better, Why is Adoption So Low? By Alan Zucker, PMP, PMI-ACP Agile software projects have significantly better outcomes than Waterfall methodologies. Statistics from the 2015 Standish Group’s Chaos Report show that, on average, Agile projects are...