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Why is Communicating Effectively Important? You spend countless hours creating a Communications Plan for your stakeholders. You identify and prioritize them and create an extensive strategy regarding what, when, and how often you’ll communicate with them. But what about your project team members? Do you know what Josh is working on, where Chrissy sees risk, […]

How to Get the Most Out of Team Meetings

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

As a project manager you know your primary responsibility and skill is communication. And you know a lot of your communication is done through team meetings. But, how can you be sure your team meetings are as effective as possible? Research shows most project managers believe their meetings are highly effective, yet most team participants

Project Management, Risk Management

How to Apply Risk Management in Your Projects

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

According to PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), every project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.” It goes on to say, “the end is reached when the project’s objectives have been achieved …”1 Since the endeavor is unique and has, by definition,

Professional Development, Project Management

Project Communication and Stakeholder Engagement

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

While all facets of project management and leadership are important, the most important skill a project manager or leader can possess is communication. It is said a project manager spends 90% of their time communicating. I have seen the single greatest factor impacting project success is communication. In fact, project communication is so vital, it

Agile, PMI-ACP, Project Management

Leading an Agile Team

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Agile methods and frameworks have existed for several decades. The V-model, Rapid Application Development (RAD), and the Spiral model are three such methodologies which predate the 2001 creation of the Agile Manifesto. Because agile methods have been around for quite some time in the technology sector they are often viewed as being exclusive to team

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Achieving the Elusive Work-Life Balance

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

In today’s environment of being connected all the time, it can seem like a far-fetched goal of achieving the ever-elusive work-life balance. There is no proven method, flow chart, or simple formula to reach a perfect work-life balance. It is going to require you to understand why you work and live, and to define what

Project Management, Risk Management

Top 10 Reasons Why Projects Fail

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

There is a myriad of reasons why projects fail but they often come down to certain repeatable issues which, left unsolved, will make it next-to-impossible to ever fully succeed. The most common reason why projects fail is because they are not properly managed. There’s a lot of moving parts and essential tasks to be done

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Balancing Project and Change Management: Obtaining Project Adoption

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

As a project manager, if you meet your scope, schedule and cost baselines, was your project successful? If it takes a prolonged time period to achieve the business outcomes planned, is that your responsibility? Does your involvement end when the project is finalized, or do you have some responsibility to ensure project adoption? If you

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2019 Reviews of Agile Software Platforms

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Agile is a flexible, streamlined project management approach. Due to this flexibility, numerous Agile software solutions have emerged, each one ideal for a different type of business or team structure.

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Project Management as a Business Investment

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

In this article, we will briefly look at project management as an investment and provide some suggested approaches for turning an investment in project management into big dividends.