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I’ve delivered a number of presentations this year on the importance of building psychological safety within project teams and the role which project managers play. During these presentations I’m frequently asked the question “How do I go about creating it?“. While there are existing models such as Timothy R. Clark’s progressive four stage model, a […]

Project Management

Project Manager in a Matrix World

Megan Bell

How a business is structured can impact efficiencies, and Project Managers need a deep understanding of the organizational structure to successfully realize the best project outcomes. A common model is the “matrixed” organization, in which employees have both departmental and functional managers. In a matrixed organizational structure, an employee has a primary manager plus one

Agile, Project Management

It Is Harder to Sell Stakeholders When Times Get Tough!

Kiron Bondale

While there are many cases where we might have to use our powers of influence and persuasion to sell stakeholders on supporting what we feel is the right thing, I thought I’d share three specific examples which might be a much harder sell than usual.

Professional Development, Project Management

Project Manager for 2021: Manager and Leader

Megan Bell

Regardless of your company or industry, 2020 changed lives and careers. For Project Managers, the challenges of guiding a team through work processes are now heavily impacted by changes in team member’s personal environment in addition to changes in the business. To navigate 2021, Project Managers must balance management and leadership skills, and know when

Agile, Project Management

Think Top-Down and Bottom-Up for Agile Transformations

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

A question that I’m asked regularly during my classes is what the best place is to start agile transformations within a company? Given a choice, I’d prefer to use the cop-out (but correct) answer “It depends”, but otherwise I usually respond that you’d want to do both a top-down and bottom-up approach simultaneously. Download the

Continuing Education, Project Management, Training and Development

Take Note: Note Taking for Success

Megan Bell

After deciding to invest in your professional development, you can maximize your investment by setting yourself up for successful comprehension of the course content by improving how you take notes during your class. Your personal note-taking style, the format in which you take notes and what you do with those notes, can have a direct

Professional Development, Project Management

LinkedIn For Your Project Management Career

Megan Bell

What is LinkedIn LinkedIn is a network founded in 2002 with a focus on career development, job advancement, and professional networking. It’s power of influence is supported by the $26.2 billion price tag Microsoft paid for it in 2016. Unlike Facebook, Instagram or other social networks, Linked is an “employment-related social network” offering members professional

Project Management

Is the PMI-PBA ® Certification for You? Probably!

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Are you one of the 1,000,000+ Project Management Professionals (PMP)® who are thinking about your next career development move to stay fresh, keep current, reinvent yourself, or just refine your knowledge in a professional area of interest? That’s good. Because this is not the time to let your skills stagnate and there are so many opportunities

Agile, Project Management

Agile for All

Megan Bell

Teams that seek to deliver quality, tested deliverables in as short a timeframe as possible are likely already using Agile practices even if they do not know it. The Agile Project Management framework in fact leverages practices that are so common that they do not have an “origin” story, such as prioritization, stand-up meetings, and

Project Management

What is the Status of Your Status Reports?

Megan Bell

The time you spend to ensure you have effective and efficient status reports, will benefit you in current projects and beyond. Use the three tips below to take a careful look at your current reporting and find ways to make it move from a “yellow” or “red” status to “green” thus ensuring better communications in