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As you would approach any high impact effort, you need a plan for your own professional development. Your Project Management Skill Development plan should be more than just “get a new job!” which in fact, is a desired outcome not a plan. Carefully consider your goals, resources, and timeline to create a measurable and actionable […]

Project Management

Leading Virtual Stand Up Meetings

Megan Bell

The Daily Stand-Up or Stand-Up is baked into Agile, with the team gathering every day for a focused review of tasks. The daily team meeting is by no means limited to those formally practicing an Agile methodology, project teams across industries hold them. A time to connect with each other, to refocus on the immediate

Project Management

How Are You Planning for Psychological Safety Within Your Team?

Kiron Bondale

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

PMP Certification, PMP Exam Prep

New PMP Exam in 2021: Why It Matters for All Project Managers

Megan Bell

Gaining marketable skills, earning a globally recognized certification, and learning from verified training providers, is the best way to invest your personal training budget. Working towards a Project Manager Professional (PMP ®) certification, with PMP holders earning 25% more than counterparts without it, is an important professional goal. Make sure that you are informed about

PMP Certification

Is PMP Certification Worth It: Salary Increase vs Investment

Megan Bell

Is getting a PMP® Certification worth it in 2024? Absolutely! Project management skills are useful in any industry or business. The Project Management Institute (PMI) predicts that project management jobs in seven sectors will grow by 33% through 2027. That’s almost 22 million new jobs! While the PMP® Certification isn’t required, it can make you

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