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Behaviors-to-Master-When-Communicating-with-Senior-Management

As a project management consultant, I frequently work with senior managers at the Director level and above. Currently, I am reporting to two C-level executives – the Chief Operating Officer of the consulting firm for whom I consult, and the Chief Technology Officer of the company where I am embedded. Three, actually, if you count […]

17 Best Corporate Training Courses for Project Management

Brent Nair

What’s the difference between project managers who consistently deliver success and those who struggle with every deadline? Continuous learning. As a project manager and lifelong learner, I’m always seeking opportunities to stay ahead of industry changes and emerging best practices. Corporate training courses offer one of the most effective paths to this growth. If you

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

Project Management

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

Agile, PMI-ACP, Project Management

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.

Continuing Education, Professional Development, Training and Development

Keeping Your PMI® Certification Fresh: A Tutorial on PDUs

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Project management is a complex, ever-evolving forum of methodologies, principles, and best practices. So, it’s little wonder why Project Management Institute (PMI) asserts that a continuing education is an essential part of a project manager’s professional development. Consequently, PMI requires certain post-exam educational standards be met in order to maintain certification status. These requirements, known

Professional Development

When Team Members Clash: Managing Conflict in a Team Environment

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

In a perfect project management world, all projects would be done on time, within scope, and under budget. But any practicing project manager will tell you the sad reality: things are not always going as planned. In that sense, it’s plausible that conflict will occur at some point in your project’s development. Taking appropriate preventative

Corporate Training, Professional Development, Project Management, Training and Development

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.

Agile, PMI-ACP, Professional Development

PMI-ACP® Certification Eligibility Requirements: Everything You Should Know about the Exam

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Becoming a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® credential holder takes some work, but the investment of your time and effort will have long-term positive results in your career. In order to earn the PMI-ACP Certification®, you must first know all of the eligibility requirements needed to earn this certification, so you can plan according to

Agile, Scaled Agile Framework

What is the Scaled Agile Framework?

Erin Aldridge, PMP, PMI-ACP, & CSPO

Are you looking for a way to use Agile Methodologies in your business, but your worried your workforce might be too big or too small for some of the common Agile approaches? Fortunately, there’s an answer to finding an Agile framework that works well for any company: the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe is a