Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast – Joe Garagiola, Major League Baseball Catcher and TV announcer

The effective delivery of projects is also an endless drama with an equ...

Welcome to this edition of the ProjectTalk newsletter. 

Making productive use of our time is essential for project success. In addition, we must think long term. However, there are unavoidable long t...

How Earned Value Management works is explained in detail in the Project Management Institute (PMI) paper, Earned Value Management Systems1, and is summed up as follows:

“Earned Value Management syste...

“All the News That’s Fit to Print”: slogan for The New York Times

Adolph Simon Ochs (1858 – 1935), American Newspaper Publisher

Status reports and meetings are killing our project teams. Whether i...

Welcome to this edition of the ProjectTalk newsletter. 

Along our professional journey each of us who aspires advancement to higher levels of PM management must develop certain skillsets that become ...

We demonstrated the value of a Project Manager becoming a Citizen Developer, in the blog titled, “Project Manager: The Next Great Citizen Developer”. Now we want to provide you more information on how...

Remote work hasn’t just changed the way we work. It has also fundamentally redefined employee engagement. While it was in the periphery earlier, the pandemic has institutionalized it, with more and mo...

I walked into my manager’s office with a bit of a swagger and a smug look. “Everything for this week is done,” I said. “All project plans have been updated, the communication plan has been revised, th...

As PMO management, our PMO organizations are only as strong and competent as those who report to us. 

In addition to our executive management responsibilities, we are now called upon to be mentors, e...

Cora CEO Philip Martin examines what organizations need to do in order to deliver projects in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly manner.

The recent COP26 conference in Glasgow has brough...

One thing we like to do in the PMO world is measure maturity.  I'm not sure of the benefit to knowing your PMO maturity as a stand alone measure, rather I prefer to place maturity on a continuum so th...

Welcome to our latest edition of the ProjectTalk newsletter. This month we will discuss of The 5 phases of IT Projects, What to do when your project slips and Delivering projects using Agile Methods. ...

"We're more concerned about meeting customer needs than defining done."

For years, I have defined "Done" as a clearly articulated definition of the output of a project. Simple enough. The project has...

In a previous article we asked, How Much Friction Does Your PMO Generate?  The net of the article was that people come to your PMO because they want to transition from their current state to a differe...

Managing a project is inherently filled with different items that must be planned, tracked and controlled.  Budgets, actual hours worked, resource allocation, risks, issues, changes, status reporting,...