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Who Owns Project Success or Failure
Communicating, Estimating and Planning, Influencing and Consulting, Project Management, Stakeholders, Watermark Learning

Who Owns Project Success or Failure?

Recently, a project management colleague was expressing frustration with her inability to get a project moving in a constructive direction. She commented that she knew the success of the project was her responsibility, but she felt hamstrung in her ability to get what she needed from people.  Even simple requests for information from external stakeholders […]

Decompose for Better Risk Identification
Project Management, Watermark Learning

Decompose for Better Risk Identification

My last couple of ProjectBrief posts have pertained to risk management best practices.  The first post was about the value of articulating risks as events, and my last blog was about including the consequence of risks in the register.  This time, I want to remind people of a PM best practice that lends itself well

Project Risks So What
Project Management, Risk, Watermark Learning

Project Risks? So What?

In my last ProjectBrief post, I talked about the importance of clearly identifying risks as events and making sure they aren’t simply stated as facts.  Here I’d like to briefly highlight the importance of including the consequence of those identified risks in the risk register. Risk registers often include risks with little or no indication

What is a Risk?
Project Management, Risk, Watermark Learning

What is a Risk?

These next few weeks I will be sharing thoughts about Project Risk Management.  In my training experience, I find that most people know what risk management is, but many people struggle with identifying risks.  Often, people create a list of risks that includes things like “The infrastructure is outdated,” or “We aren’t sure how much

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman
Agile, Project Management, Watermark Learning

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman?

Not exactly.  It’s an agile project manager. They may not be superhuman, but they are super popular right now. Anything agile is hot, and although not the right fit for every project or every organization, its popularity is not likely to wane anytime soon. PMI is introducing an agile certification in the third quarter of 2011, and there’s an opportunity