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Recent Posts
Measuring the Business Value of a Project
How do we measure project success? Do we measure budget and schedule or do we measure net value delivered to the organization? Today, we tend to measure the former. But it is the latter, delivered value, which is the truer measure. This is the way pr...
The Project Liberation Checklist: Finishing Unfinished Projects
We all have one hiding over there in the groan zone. It’s the unfinished project that lives in a strange sort of limbo. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reminds us in The Black Swan, the longer a project goes unfinished, there is an exponential increas...
Project Closure: Knowing When to Say “Stop”!
In the current business environment it is imperative that we take a closer look at project investment and ensure that it is money well spent. However, with so many public examples of organizations that have had their fingers burned by expensive faile...
The Best Project Managers are Emotion-Driven Leaders
A short while ago, Charles J. Pellerin, the author of How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams, came to Montreal to lead a one-day workshop based on his book. This event was organised with the s...
Project Managers Need to Understand Queuing Theory
I was at the store the other day to pick up a few items. I found what I wanted and walked to the front checkout counters. There I found a long line of people waiting to be checked out. I had spent a year with a personal coach working on patience so I...
Accelerate Project Results
In today’s news headlines, we hear that companies are beginning to rebound from the recession in terms of improved profit; however, when we dig further, it’s clear that the majority of the improvement is due to cost cutting without a comm...

