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The work of the Project Manager is technology independent. Substitute whatever technical jargon you’d like, the conversations that Project Managers will have with their team members will always be the same. As Project Managers, we focus on schedule, cost, budget, risk, quality, customer, scope or anything else in the nine knowledge areas of the Initiating, Planning, Controlling, Executing and Closing process groups that compose Project Management. [...]  March 6th, 2011 | Tags: not technical, project manager role, Retro-Encabulator, Turbo-Encabulator | Category: Aliases, What is... | 6 comments  Save a tree, share instead!So many organizations, even other Project Managers, expect the Project Manager to “be technical”. Yet this is as preposterous as the symphony orchestra conductor stopping in the middle of the concert to play the violin. [...] January 3rd, 2011 | Tags: conductor, Kent Nagano, project manager role, symphony orchestra | Category: Aliases, What is... | 6 comments Save a tree, share instead!As the winter TV season comes to an end, I find myself saying goodbye to some long-running TV series. Without a question, my favourite was Lost, which, in my humble opinion was the greatest series ever to air on network television. But then, I am one of those strange people that enjoys a TV [...] June 3rd, 2010 | Tags: information sharing, knowledge management, leadership, Lost, project definition, project management information system, status report, TV | Category: Peeves, What is... | 2 comments Save a tree, share instead!We’re in full hockey fever here in Montreal. If you have no idea what hockey is, or who the Montreal Canadiens are, you can read this post by substituting your favourite professional sport and team. It’ll still work. The Canadiens are currently facing the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Finals, on their way to [...] May 22nd, 2010 | Tags: hockey, leadership, Montreal Canadiens, potential, risk, sports, teamwork | Category: What is... | 2 comments Save a tree, share instead!“So, what kind of project manager are you?” I got asked this question the other day. Given that it was another project manager asking me, I decided to have some fun with the answer. As the contents of my daughters' closets prove, there are many kinds of Converse shoes. There is however, only one [...] April 23rd, 2010 | Tags: what is | Category: Peeves, What is... | One comment Save a tree, share instead!it's amazing how much chocolate gets stuck under your fingernails when you make truffles If you read the About Me page, you’ll know that I am passionate about many things in my life. Oddly enough (even I am surprised), after all of these years, and all of these ups and downs, I am still [...] |
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