The book »Alpha Project Managers: What the top 2% know that everyone else does not« presents results from a research among a large number of project managers conducted by the company Velociteach. The purpose of the research was to discover what the best project managers do differently as well as to find out what they know that everyone…
In the February issue of PM Network magazine you can read an interview with me about my views on sex discrimination in IT. The article is written as a debate between two project managers with opposing views. My opinion is that based on my experience there is no sex discrimination in IT. Who knows whether my…
The end of the year is near and it’s time to look back and review what was noteworthy in the past year and whether last year’s predictions came true. Information Week published a list of the 20 most important IT trends in 2011. According to the article’s author Eric Lundquist, the first on the list is…
Everyone in project management has probably heard of or perhaps even quoted the Chaos study, conducted every two years by the Standish Group which repeatedly concludes that IT projects have an amazingly low rate of success. Finally we anticipate clearer skies ahead because the newest Chaos study finds that IT project success rates are slightly better…
PMI introduced the »New Media Council« in 2009 whose members were tasked with writing blogs, delivering web presentations and do anything related with modern social media technologies. Their goal is on one hand to promote PMI in the web environment and on the other hand to understand how new trends in social media affect project…
As a member of the PMI Slovenia Chapter I was given the opportunity to attend the Project Zone 2011 project management conference in Budapest. It was organized for attendees from the Eastern European region and was attended mostly by project practitioners from Hungary, Romania and Slovakia with a few people from neighboring countries as well. The keynote speaker was…
We have asked 5 questions to 5 Organizational Department Heads from different companies about project management. I was interviewed in the SAS AR Newsletter about project management. The last question was on a less serious note and asked what profession is most closely related to project management. My answer was what I always say in…
Project managers spend most of our time communicating. This takes place within our project teams as well as outside of the project environment. Traditional communication methods, such as meetings, telephone calls and email are supplemented with more modern forms that include chat rooms, blogs, social media and similar. – International Conference on Organizational Science Development, March…
I participated in a meeting to prepare the proposal for a solution for a customer. They insist that the the proposal must contain a fixed price. Before the proposal can be prepared, the developers would like to know the exact scope of the solution so that all stakeholders would agree what will be delivered for…
Project managers often work in matrix organizations where they don’t have formal authority over their project team members. They have to discuss and negotiate their resources with the functional managers or other stakeholders who are involved with the project. In addition, project managers typically don’t authorize their own project budgets and other project constraints, their…