Lessons Learned? I Sure Hope So Gas Lines – 1970s – Library of Congress Collection Project Managers are soothsayers. We are prognosticators. We look to the future. We predict cost. We predict timing. We predict outcomes….
The year began with some of the best business my company had ever seen. We were signing up new customers. We were one of the Project Management Institute’s few Authorized Training Providers. I couldn’t keep up with the demand on my calendar. From a…
We’re more than halfway through August, and rocketing toward the beginning of a new school year. We wondered for quite a while if we would survive 2020, and now 2021 is looking like a soon-to-be memory. We made personal promises on personal…
They’re making headway in Washington with program accountability. It’s almost been five years since the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act (PMIAA) was signed into law. And in Washington, the question for any legislation i…
Before the Constitution..and before the Declaration, there was…The Mayflower Compact. John Carver was the man in charge…but, as was the norm then, as now, he died. Enter William Bradford. A bit of a visionary, he determined that their little agra…
Not exactly valorous, but… “A string walks into a bar…” Shortly after we were married, 37 years ago, my wife shared that joke with me. And for the past 37 years, I’ve stolen it. She knows. She calls me out on it. HEY! TH…
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I have a dog. I have two cats. I have a lovely wife. I have an Ex-Lax Porcelain Thermometer. I have a storage rack for my 20+ pairs of Converse All-Stars. All of these drive to a simple question. “Do I really need that?” I recently wrote a 4th of July…
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By Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP Students in my recent PM training class were very excited about their role in an Agile environment. They were thrilled that management had adopted Agile and were anxious to put it in practice. What gets you e…
Carl Pritchard is considered a leading authority on risk and communications management and presents on a variety of management topics, ranging from project essentials to the complexities of network diagramming and team motivation.
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