It was, by definition, a well-run meeting: The team got through its agenda in its allotted time, after which everyone received and filed the meeting notes. Sadly, it demonstrated the difference ...

Research on disengagement in knowledge-work environments consistently surfaces an uncomfortable pattern: employees in organizations with poorly structured project work report symptoms of burnout at ...

Rafael Ochoa (MPM '17) talks about his life growing up in Venezuela, how he became a project manager, and what he loves most about the field. Rafael Ochoa (MPM '17) always considered himself a problem ...

“Projects don’t fail from a lack of charts, graphs or reports, they fail from a lack of communication and collaboration.” So opine the chaps at 37signals who, no surprise, have a solution. I covered a ...

“Project Management” is an enormous industry. Software, training, certifications and even Masters degrees – everything you can imagine — to make us better at managing simple and complex projects. But ...

Guiding a tech project from start to finish entails staying on top of seemingly endless details, decisions and data (and sometimes, detours). From making sure progress is achieved on time and on ...

This session builds on Session 1 and will review case studies of two problem projects that need an injection of capable project management to untangle well intended efforts that went astray and put ...

If you’ve ever written a research proposal, the chances are that you will have planned the work as a list of sequential activities, often visualized in a Gantt chart. The idea behind this ‘waterfall’ ...