Thanks

-Chris

“Focus on Providing Value, not Punishment”

Sometimes it does happen that adherence to PMO activities for any project should be driven with ease rather than by force.

regards
Lakshmikanth

See info here:

Http://www.pm411.org/earn-free-pdus/

Since this episode is approximately 12 minutes in length – you would need to listen to additional episodes to add up to 60 minutes to claim 1 PDU.

Hope this helps.

Ron

How many PDUs i can claim for this?

Marla

Ron

Ron

Yes you can. Simply click the link for “Earn Free PDUs!” at the top of the page for more information on how to claim PDUs.

Thank you.

Thanks for being so honest and direct. Yes, I also found that this profession is highly understated despite the fact that businesses like the idea of good project management. I also experienced your same frustration for many years. Answering your question, the purpose of this article was to promote the value of it in terms of “applicability” in almost any situation because that was the challenge I had to overcome at that time. I wanted to challenge the common held view that project management only belongs to the IT or Construction fields.

Now, I strongly believe that using simple, everyday life situations are a great way to explain things that are complex, like project management. Following your example, yes, anyone can make a cup of tea but only those with the right skills and experience will deliver to you the tea exactly how you expect it, at the time you want it, with no bad surprises. A cup of tea might be made with the finest quality leaves or with the most generic and artificially flavored ingredients. It might be served too hot or too cold. This sense of confidence on the outcome makes that “project manager” a good value for the money you have paid.

How much would you be willing to pay for a great cup of tea? It all depends on your expectations and past experiences. The same applies to organizations and their perceived value about project managers.

Thanks again for contributing to the discussion!
Bests,
Brenda

For me this falls into the same category as using the making of a cup of tea as an example of project management (has defined objectives with a start, middle and end). It’s easy to explain but ultimately doesn’t explain why its different and should be taken seriously.

Forgive the directness, I struggle this issue a lot. CxOs know they need project management (business schools have been pushing the message for years) but they need to understand why and the value it brings to their organizations.

Regards

Gordon

I think the most important ingradient for accepting a change is trust whith out which the change process can’t move forward.

I found the presentation very useful.
Thanks again.

Margaret has gone ahead and made the webinar available now to pm411.org listeners at the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4sxZQ_Hi0w

Let me know if you have any trouble getting to it.

Ron

Thanks Brian!!!!

Thanks!

Marla

Brenda

Brenda

Brenda

I love your feedback! That is the message I wanted to deliver with the article. I am glad you also share my point of view. Not a surprise, since we both have a marketing background. This topic has been a result of a “need” more than anything else. Keep spreading the word and as you said, “shaking the traditional project management”!

Thanks!!
Brenda

-Greg

Regards and thanks for listening!

Ron

Thanks again for you comment.

Ron

Cheers.

This session was very helpful to me.

Thanks,
Savio.

You can try out the Simulator absolutely free for 3 days here:

http://www.premiumcast.com/vp/74112/14198/

Thnks

Hats off..

Best Regards,
Satya.

Indeed, it is a great offer to earn free PDUs. I will definately avail this opportunity to earn my PDUs.

Infact, when I had subscribed to Cornelius Fichtner’s PMPrepCast, I listened to your lecture also. Came to know about your site at that time & when I was preparing for my PMP certification. I was sure that in future http://www.pm411.org will be going to help me in one or another way.

Thanks all for your efforts!!!

Regards,
Bhupinder Singh, PMP

Regards,

Ron

Ron

Dora provided me with the following response to your questions:

When people click the link in the shownotes, there is a thorough explanation of what is in the course and who the course is intended. “Beginner and/or Experienced”…are recommended users.

Yes, and past lessons are available. There is no scheduled expiration date at this time. You can access the past material with no limitations.

If you have direct questions you can visit http://www.iNeedSupportPlease.com – Dora will receive your question and promises a fast turn around.

Ron

Thanks for your recommendation and I agree. If you have a very long project cycle time, daily may not be required. Also, I agree that if you have many team members, it may take more time to get through a standup meeting. The main message is that your standup meetings should be frequent to quickly identify issues that can be addressed outside of the meeting.

Ron

Yes. You just need to decide which particular process group category it fits into when claiming your PDUs through pmi.org.

Ron

If not then how to identify which ones.

Thanks
Mahesh

Thanks,
Sanjai Yadav
Dallas TX

Thanks

Yinka.

The Process Group/Knowledge Area categories are currently not listed in the podcast tags or by Categories on the pm411.org website. This is something I will look into.

I would suggest selecting those categories that make sense on the pmi.org website when you claim your free PDUs.

Thanks for listening, Oluyinka!

Regards,

Ron

Now how does one categories what podcast goes into which process group and knowledge areas ??

Regards,

Ron

Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, at this time we are no longer supporting Central Desktop through pm411.org. You may want to do a google search for Central Desktop to find another link.

Regards,

Ron

I have been listening to PDU podcast at your website. They are very informative and useful. A ton of thank you for efforts in this direction.

I was trying to access centraldesktop by typing the URL http://www.pm411.org/centraldesktop and by clicking on the link “here” the text for episode 22.
It goes to blank page. Can I request you to please take a look and if possible send me the corrected link. A response if central desktop is available or not will be of great help.

Thanks much,
Regards,
Rajesh Kumar

Thanks again for your kind words and I agree that frequent and short standup meetings are a lot more effective than long-drawn out meetings.

As far as good MS Project training – stay tuned! Episode 075 will put you in touch with a fantastic MS Project training resource. That’s all I am going to say about it for now!

You had some good tips about using MS Project for resource leveling — I’m wondering if there is an effective (and quick) way to re-build MS Project skills. In the organisations in which I’ve worked, there is often a strong ‘allergic’ reaction to MS Project so we often have to use Excel (yikes!!) or senior leadership will not look at the materials. Any suggestions on how to make sure I don’t forget everything I’ve ever learned?

Glad you want to earn the 30 free PDUs. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the pm411.org webpage and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Glad you want to earn the 30 free PDUs. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the pm411.org webpage and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Glad you want to earn the 30 free PDUs. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the pm411.org webpage and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

To subscribe for free, just go to http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=847751.

Then, just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the page and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Glad you want to earn the 30 free PDUs. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the pm411.org webpage and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Typically during the auditing process, PMI will only require you to take a 30-60 minute timed test on the subject matter of each of the episodes to insure you did in fact listen and learn from them. If you are unable to score 90% or better, your PMP credential could be revoked.

Just kidding. Sorry, that was cruel!

There is no certificate required to claim Self-Directed Learning PDUs, but you should keep a list of what episodes you have listened to, when you listened to them, and which process group or knowledge area they belong to.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Thanks for listening to the podcast episodes and I am glad to hear that they are helpful. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the page and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast. There is no certificate required to claim Self-Directed Learning PDUs, but you should keep a list of what episodes you have listened to, when you listened to them, and which process group or knowledge area they belong to.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

Glad you like the 30 free PDUs. Just follow the “Earn Free PDUs!” link at the top of the page and you can find out all about how to claim your 30 free PDUs just by listening to episodes of The pm411.org Project Management Podcast.

Let me know if you have further questions and thanks for listening!

Ron

This is really a cool stuff , I would definitely love to get this 30 PDU.
Would appreciate if you can update the next step for getting this PDU.
Best Regards,
Vaibhav

I have a suggestion to improve the effectiveness and usability of these PodCast series. I think if you can add the duration of the podcast along with heading line will help the PMP’s to select according to their needs. At the moment the podcast during come only when we click the play button. Also if you can add the file size for downloading.

waiting to hear from you on this.

Sarwat

Cordially,

Javier A. Miranda, PMP
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Riaz

Stay tuned! I am working on a quick tool as Part 6 of The Schedule Killers series that you can use to help convince others that multitasking actually causes a group of tasks to take longer to complete than if they were prioritized properly. I have used this simple tool during my presentations to help convince the audience members that they truly cannot multitask, no matter how hard they try. It is usually an “eye-opener” for people.

I think of Student Syndrome as procrastination in starting a task and Parkinson’s Law as procrastination in finishing a task.

The student syndrome is just about starting (too) late. The amount of work is still the same.

Thanks!

I have to agree with your post. In order to be effective project managers need to be able to communicate effectively and that can’t be done without developing the skills to tailor your message to your audience and being an attentive listener. Project managers serve as facilitators, and often we need to restrain ourselves to provide the answers in order to leverage the creative power of our team. Thanks for sharing and best wishes for success in all your endeavors.

D

I like to see the top management emphasizing on laying some ground rules and adoption of standard good project management proctices as part of the organizational corporate plans (governance). Give the right training to it’s project teams (referesher or boot camp) and I am sure the rate of success will be higher.

Thanks!

Do you publish weekly status reports? Anything special about the format or approach you use that you can share with us?

Ron

Podcast episode 027: 12 steps to better team organization

Podcast episode 053: 6 tips for email in the new decade

Thanks for listening!

Ron

Thanks for your comment!

Ron

Thanks for pointing out that ‘lazy’ isn’t necessarily a bad thing!

Regards,

Ron

Team development is critical but there has to be a point where someone is empowered (and held accountable) for the decisions he/she makes.

Thanks for an informative podcast!

Thanks!

Thanks for a good podcast.

I had been in the habit of sending (or insisting my project managers do) weekly status reports. One huge advantage of sending regualr status reports is it calms down some of the stakeholders who get anxious if there is not enough information and also implicitely tells everyone that we are on top of the tasks. While reporting issues, we also state options we are looking into/ next steps and an ETA by which we will get back on that issue.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge/expertise via this forum.

This has been very interesting; we often advise project managers to keep open lines of communication and that having the support of key stakeholders is crucial for project success. However, many project managers are often unprepared and surprised at the impact of corporate politics on their projects. When project managers aren’t part of the project selection and definition process, full benefits are less likely to be realised on the projects.

Thanks!

Doing Dora’s happy dance at the successful completion of a project sounds like a good way to wrap up, too!

- JP

Ron

Thanks.

https://ccrs.pmi.org/Search.aspx

Greetings !

I benefited from your pm411.org podcasts. I got to learn about a lot of new and different perspectives and tools around Project Management from yourself and various other experts from your “free” podcasts. While doing so, I also got around 9 PDUs towards my PMP Recertification, which I recently got.

I wanted to take time to appreciate your good efforts with pm411 and wish you “all the best”.

Regards,
Balamurugan L Ananthan, PMP,CSM

Do you see anything your team can do to help encourage teamm members to better validate their assumptions and better monitor the project for potential problems? Perhaps frequent virtual risk assessment discussions or better/more frequent updating of current status?

Ron

Thanks
Siva

http://www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/Pages/PMI-Publication-Quizzes.aspx

Regards, Jose Luis.

Thanks
Siva

That’s fine – go ahead. Please just link back to my website Silicon Beach Training: http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/

Best wishes,
Heather

regards
Anand

regards
Ananad

Category 2 (CAT-2) Self-directed learning activities (like The pm411.org Project Management Podcast)are limited to 15 PDUs per learning cycle. These may include reading / using articles, books, podcasts (like pm411), instructional manuals, videos, CD-ROMs, or other material resources. This would also include webinars from non-PMI Registered Education Providers (R.E.P.s).

As mentioned, you are limited to only 15 Category-2 PDUs per cycle.

However, I believe that if you attend web seminars from a Category-3 PMI Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) you can earn as many additional PDUs per cycle as you need.

You can search for various R.E.P.s and activities at the link below:

https://www.pmi.org/CCRS/Search.aspx

Hope this helps!

Ron

If I understood correctly, we can earn 15 PDUs through the 1500 hrs effort spent on Project Management in a cycle of 3 years and 15 PDUs allowed to earn through Self Directed Learnings. Is there any possibility of earning remaining 30 PDUs through web seminars or is it mandatory that we take trainings, create white papers, attend seminars

Request your inputs

Regards
Anand
PMP

Keeps posting.
akaka

Business Management is a pretty broad topic – if you want just a quick overview, you may want to go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_management

Some other resources I dug up include:

http://hbr.org/
http://www.laynetworks.com/management-tutorials.html
http://www.learnthat.com/business/category-23
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/tutorial/business/

Hope this helps!

Ron

I believe you are limited to a total of 15 SDL-Cat2 PDUs per cycle, which is the category for non PMI Registered Education Providers. You would claim webinar PDUs in a similar way (under SDL-Cat2 PDUs) as you would for listening to the pm411.org podcasts. Simply follow the process outlined in the yellow box above with the pertinent info from the non PMI REP. However, remember, you can only claim 15 total PDUs from non-PMI REPs. So if you already claimed 10 PDUs here, you would be limited to just 5 more from any other Cat-2 SDL provider.

Hope this helps!

Ron

I completely agree with you! I think it is a great tool for every project manager to have on their “tool belt.”

Thanks for your comment!

Ron

For example, at the beginning of a project when information is being collected but not all information is available. What better tool for collecting and organising the information and identifying the gaps?

How many maximum free online webinar for PDU provided by Non PMI REP (Registered Education Provider) we can claim ? And if we claim the webinars provided by Non PMI REP, it is included in what category ?

Thanks & Best Regards,
Andi Wahbi, PMP

Ron

You can listen to the various episodes in either iTunes or by clicking the PM Podcasts link at the top of the http://www.pm411.org screen. You can also get to the list at this URL:

http://pm411.org/category/podcasts/

Simply click the title of any of the podcast episodes to get more information on it. At the top of the screen should be a little mp3 player that you can click to stream the podcast or you can right click the “Download” link to save the file locally on your computer.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks and keep on listening!

Ron

Thanks.
Mandar

There is a category link for the podcasts at the top of the screen under the link “PM Podcasts.”

As of today (5/13/2010) there are 58 podcasts with a few additional special episodes thrown in. Each are somewhere between 10 minutes to over an hour. You can claim 1 PDU for each hour of listening, so you will most likely need to combine multiple episodes per PDU, as mentioned above.

Please let me know if you have any further questions, Imran, and keep on listening!

i am new to the site and a new pmp as well. kindly guidle through the following;

1-where is the link for podcast to listen?
2-what is total no. of podcasts avialable here and the duration?

kindly reply,

imran,pmp

http://about.ning.com/announcement/?xg_source=www.ning.com

Thanks for your comment, Don!

Ron

Thanks for your comment, Don! And thanks for listening!

Ron

Detached look-aheads often allow the master schedule to be neglected and to veer steadily away from being in-sync with the project. Even to the point where the master schedule is updated only enough to enable the execution of a pay application. The CPM becomes an expensive SOV.

I was not familiar with ACONEX – but it looks like it is an interesting project collaboration tool for folks to check out:

http://www.aconex.com/

Thanks for sharing!

Ron

Thanks for the insight, Ashraf! What other things have you found on your own projects that challenge the project schedule?

I still see that the prescribed actions are not a full relief for the situation, I think more scientific and psychological points should be added or discussed that definitely will enrich the solutions.

Appreciate your topic.

Ashraf, PMP

Let me toss in my $0.02 as well… I completely understand your concerns about first vetting the use of any software with your IT department. I think Wayne is agreeing with this – if you have a relationship with someone in IT that will give you the straight scoop on their concerns, you should go to them first. But, I think what Wayne and I are cautioning you on is just going up to anybody in IT who approves all corporate applications and ask them to research and install 20 licenses of an application for your team. He (or she) will probably want a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) and after 6 months they will tell you it can’t be done. Those dudes are WAY too busy! And your project will be 6 months behind schedule.

If you have a “friend” in IT that will be willing to work with you, you can find out what the corporate concerns are and how to navigate around those concerns without having 13 different committees try to do it on your behalf.

As far as security… most of these tools provide the same level of security as your email client does – at least 128bit encryption. Unless you are working for the Pentagon, that level of security is probably more than enough. When was the last time your competitors snuck into your firewall and started to download your latest office email? I will bet they haven’t. WOur point is that security policies are good to have until the point that basically nothing gets done. And to be honest, “nothing” is pretty secure on its own – who would ever want it?

Here is a link to a whitepaper on the security that GoToMeeting, one of the tools we mentioned, uses. Perhaps if someone questions you later about the security of the tools that your team is using, you can show them that you have done your homework with this.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/default/downloads/pdf/p/GoToMeeting_Security_White_Paper.pdf

Best of luck – and by the way – everyone suffers from the same frustrations at my organization. In most cases I have learned to ask for forgiveness after the fact rather than permission up front.

Ron

I too agree your point!
But as per my previous experience and investigations for unapproved applications there are multiple chances related to security threats and official data might flow out. The reason I am saying this is because I am from an IT consulting background, now practicing project management. If I am managing IT Operations I would rather prefer only approved and secure applications as supported by law, so that I can see my data in secure place. I do agree the importance of fast and easy method of work been done but strongly would adhere to the “Confidential data” instead of an easy method. The suggestion here is for IT guys to have them develop internally or purchase from legally authorized licensed versions.
Jay
jkbmca@gmail.com

Jay

Diljeet

http://www.expertprogrammanagement.com/2010/01/how-to-use-a-raci-matrix-raci-model/

Feds Target Toyota with Largest Fine Ever Levied Against an Automaker
Transportation Secretary LaHood Wants $16.4 Million for Failure to Notify NHTSA of ‘Sticky’ Pedals

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/RunawayToyotas/feds-target-toyota-largest-fine-levied-automaker/story?id=10291524

This doesn’t appear to be over for Toyota yet.

Long Live OTOBOS!

Ron

http://industry-news.org/2010/03/29/toyota-recall-nasa-to-investigate-acceleration-problems/

Congratulations to both Ted and Yogesh, and thanks to all of you that submitted your names for the drawing.

If you didn’t win this time, no worries! We are planning more prize giveaways soon!

Thanks for listening!

Ron

Congratulations to both Ted and Yogesh, and thanks to all of you that submitted your names for the drawing.

If you didn’t win this time, no worries! We are planning more prize giveaways soon!

Thanks for listening!

Ron

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I also enjoyed the discussion about how/where to save e-mails. Even with Outlook, I’ve found the search capability good enough, and I simply move all e-mails and sent items in monthly files, about two months after the end of the month. I never waste a moment trying to decide what folder I should use to store an e-mail or whether or not delete an e-mail. A colleague suggested this approach long ago and it works great for me. You can usually remember enough to do a successful search. Others often come to me looking for old e-mails because they know I can find them.

Thanks again for a great podcast.

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Ron

However, I wonder if we still can’t learn something from his actions… Perhaps his actions (and those of his trainers) were contrived for the camera, but that doesn’t mean that the show didn’t have perhaps some merit. What if we tried to learn more about the jobs of those on our teams? Would we learn something that we didn’t know before?

Ron

Something that seems to have escaped Larry’s notice was the readiness and eagerness of the manager’s to agree with Larry, once they know his identity. It’s hard to tell from just this handful of episodes, but is Larry open to suggestions, questions, alternate points of view? The guy who manages the paper-pickers at the landfill even mumbled flattery of Larry when he found out Randy’s true identity, saying “Randy did a good job.”, even though he had fired Randy for doing a bad job. Though I hope otherwise, it looks to me like this may be a top-down company in which nobody expresses a point of view that differs from that of the boss.

First off, thanks for listening to The pm411.org Project Management Podcast. Secondly, please be sure to note, as described above, that you can only claim 1 PDU for every 1 hour of Cat 2SDL: Self-Directed Learning. Most of my podcast episodes are less than 1 hour in duration, so the yellow chart above describes how to submit for the total 15 PDUs based on listening to multiple episodes that in total equal 15 hours. However, not to worry! You should be able to change the “Program Title:” description on your next submittal to refer to whichever additional episodes you listened to. For instance, if you wanted to claim 1 PDU for listening to episode 004 and episode 052 – which add up to 60 minutes and 23 seconds (just over 1 hour), you could enter something like “Podcast Episode 004 – WBS and Episode 052 – RACI” as the program title. You can check the length of each episode either in iTunes or under the title of each podcast on the pm411.org site.

Please be aware that PMI does reserve the right to audit any claimed PDUs, so please only claim PDUs for those podcasts you have actually listened to.

Let me know if this doesn’t answer your question or work for you, Javier! And thanks for listening!

Ron

But when asking in PMI portal for another PDU (a different podcast) I received a ‘duplicate entry’ message. I used the same information for both podcasts (info in the yellow chart).

Can you please tell me how can I submit more PDU’s without getting this message ?

Thanks,
Javier.

I have updated the information above with the additional contact information that you apparently need in order to claim PDUs for listening to The pm411.org Project Management Podcast. I apologize for not including this information before. Let me know if you need any other info. And congratulations to both of you for claiming your PDUs!

Thanks and keep on listening!

Ron

I have updated the information above with the additional contact information that you apparently need in order to claim PDUs for listening to The pm411.org Project Management Podcast. I apologize for not including this information before. Let me know if you need any other info. And congratulations to both of you for claiming your PDUs!

Thanks and keep on listening!

Ron

Thanks for your comment and insight, John!

What matters is concentration. Multitasking isn’t a valuable skill.

Almost anybody can multitask. How many people change a cd while talking on a phone or while drinking a smoothie or while looking for an address or while driving? How many mothers juggle adult responsibilities and the agendas of a couple of children? Managers should emphasize and reward concentration on a chosen task.

When a manager interrupts a task in progress and replaces it with a new one, there is risk that the staff won’t complete the first task. So the previous investment of effort in the first task has no result, and the ROI for the first task is zero.

If the manager interrupts or allows interruption of tasks, and if half the tasks are never resumed, then half the staff is wasted.

By completing tasks, each effort can bear fruit. So, even when more recent events suggest that the second task is “more important” than the first, managers should allow completion of the first task whenever feasible.

As a corollary, the manager shouldn’t commit staff to a task until the manager commits herself to supporting the task’s completion.

The template has “Protect Sheet” enabled to help prevent folks from accidently deleting calculated cells. You should be able to turn off this by simply selecting “Unprotect Sheet”. I believe this function is found in different locations within Excel, depending on which version of Excel you are using. In Excel 2007, it is found under the Review ribbon tool bar.

Hope this helps!

Ron

dkoziol@cegadvisory.com

You can get all the details on how to enter PDUs through PMI for The pm411.org Project Management Podcast at the link below:

http://pm411.org/earn-free-pdus/

Thanks.

One way I do this is by attending events in the project management community. This includes attending PMI chapter meetings and going to the Global PMI Congresses. (http://www.pmi.org/CareerDevelopment/pages/PMI-global-congresses.aspx)

I also am active in the blogosphere. In addition to reading and contributing to other blogs (such as this one, pm411) I also publish my own blog, blogs.pmbestpractices.com. (There’s a link to my blog on the left, under “Other PM Websites.”)

I join business related social networks such as Linkedin.com as well as contributing the PMI fan page on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/PMInstitute). Both Linkedin and Facebook have discussion boards.

I do my best to stay in touch with project managers (and future project managers) who I’ve worked with in the past – not only letting them know what I am up to and inquiring about what they are up to, but also emailing interesting links, articles, and other information that I come across that I believe they might be interested in.

Jerry Bucknoff, MBA, PMP
blogs.pmbestpractices.com

Keep listening for more free product giveaways in upcoming pm411.org podcast episodes!

Ron

Now with mindmapping, it is so much easier to visually show how items are related and the mindmaps can easily be saved, recalled, and expanded during each meeting. And now with Mindjet Catalyst (as I discussed in episode 048) mindmapping can be done collaboratively any place in the world at the same time.
.-= Ron Holohan, MBA PMP´s last blog ..Can agile be used on all types of projects? =-.

For example, at the beginning of a project when information is being collected but not all information is available. What better tool for collecting and organising the information and identifying the gaps?

I agree with your article that companies should not skimp on their project manager resources and teams during this recession. I believe that now is actually the time for organizations to invest more heavily in their projects and project resources. It is similar to the financial investment strategy to “buy low” and look for bargains when the economy is in a downturn.

Organizations can find a lot of great values out in the job market with the number of good project managers currently out of work. Similarly, many other project supporting firms such as suppliers and consultants are “hungry” for business and many bargains can be found in those areas as well.

By “buying low” now, organizations can be ready with new products and services faster than competitors that have decided to “wait” for the economy to turn-around.

Thanks for sharing the article, Jerry!

Ron

Ron

It’s understandable that organizations are looking for ways to cut costs. However, with a lack of understanding about what project management and how it brings value to an organization, these organizations may make some costly mistakes concerning the value of project management.

My comments are posted on my blog:
http://blogs.pmbestpractices.com/2009/01/economic-crisis/

I wrote my comments earlier this year, before I had a chance to meet Dr. Harold Kerzner and hear his remarks to us at the 2009 PMI North America Global Congress. After hearing his remarks, I feel even stronger about my original thougts.

I welcome any comments you can make. I believe this is a very important issue.

Cheers
Ashish

In that case, over-running a task’s alloted duration is treated as more of a warning or yellow alert so the PM and team are alerted and give it attention.

When I have used this pseudo-critical chain technique on my waterfall projects I have found it to be beneficial in avoiding the risk of the student syndrome.

Josh Nankivel
pmStudent.com

http://pmstudent.com/how-to-wbs/

So tell me, how do we make agile work in its entirity? How do we get a true buy in to the process? Any thoughts?

It will be interesting to see if these posts generate some interest, as I think this is a topic that most can relate to, so it provides a good case study inm day to day project management virtually under a microscope.
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John Reiling, PMP
Project Management Training Online
Lean Six Sigma Training Online

Magesh.

Greetings!!! I started subscribing to your podcasts after hearing about you through Corlenius F. I listened to this China episode and I really enjoyed it. I especially liked the way of presentation. Thank you very much for sharing it and look forward to your future podcasts.

Thanks,
Magesh Puvananthiran