Here’s a good mantra for your project retrospectives: “Sometimes you gotta look backwards to move forward.” You’re inching closer to a project due date. The sponsor is expecting to see your awesome deliverable presented on time, under budget and with all the bells and whistles they asked for. Continue reading on DPM
For the past 8 years, I have taught an introductory project management course at a local university in Southwestern Ontario. In the first class of every semester, I usually ask students two questions: Do you have any project management experience? What do you think a project manager does? Continue reading on DPM
Pre-2020, phrases such as ‘socially distanced’ did not really have much meaning or context. The pandemic has not only added phrases such as ‘socially distanced’ to our lexicon, but we are also seeing new phrases such as ‘the great resignation of 2022’. Whether organizations are going through corporate restructuring or people are voluntarily deciding to…
In this day of apps, AI, and the metaverse, it’s hard to believe there was a time where technology did not play a central role in our lives. When I started my career as a project manager, I enrolled in a project management course at my local community college to get some training.
They say life isn’t linear, but your career path as a project manager may have looked like this:
Scrum, Kanban, Lean…and now SAFe®. The SAFe framework has shown up to the project methodology party. If you don’t want to be left out, let’s get to know our new party guest—the SAFe framework.