Weekend Reading

Just trying to catch up on this week’s news. Hope it helps…. For businesses, being good at copying is at least as important as being innovative. Pretty profitable parrots Throw an “F-bomb” once in a while! Swearing ‘helps to reduce pain’ A bad ending to a bad...
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Project Management Conversation Part 2

OK…continue to work through the notes, so let’s review some more… Develop a PM methodology The purpose of using a common methodology for all projects is to provide a consistent vehicle for communication, management and reporting of project work. The principles and procedures introduced within your Project...
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A Project Management Conversation

I spent the last two days facilitating a meeting of non-project management executives, engineers and technicians. It wasn’t a training session….more of a brainstorming event. The intent was not to make them all PMPs, but to instill some project management knowledge and come up with some processes to facilitate...
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Business Process Analysis

Through our diagnostic tools and consulting services, Value Management Partners help our clients determine the degree to which they are ready to implement a strategy. We help you uncover issues that could delay or derail the strategy. Working together, we obtain the information that will provide answers...
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10 Reasons You’re Not Ready

Wondering whether you have what it takes to be a project manager? Here are ten signs that you’re never going to make it to the top of the project hill. I see it everyday — talented programmers, system technicians and project engineers being promoted to project manager....
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