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What to do with Meeting Saboteurs
Communicating, Facilitation, Watermark Learning

What to do with Meeting Saboteurs?

In a recent project management class, we were discussing meeting effectiveness, and a student asked if it was ever appropriate to flat out excuse someone from a meeting for being rude or obnoxious? Fortunately, I have not been in a situation in which I wondered if I should do that. Unfortunately, I think this student had a […]

Two ingredients To Spice Up Meeting Effectiveness
Business Analysis, Communicating, Facilitation, Project Management, Watermark Learning

Two ingredients To Spice Up Meeting Effectiveness

As project managers and business analysts, you are undoubtedly familiar with the misery of poorly planned and poorly run meetings.  It’s a long list of things that drive meeting madness: unclear purpose, wrong people in attendance, lack of ground rules, inadequate preparation, poor time management, etc. Thought given to key elements of the meeting ahead of time can make for a

Five Tips for Estimating Requirements
Business Analysis, Communicating, Estimating and Planning, Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Stakeholders, Watermark Learning

Five Tips for Estimating Requirements

Years ago I worked on a large effort to reengineer a distribution center for a large retailer. We provided an estimate for both the business analysis work and for the entire project, which would involve the organization’s first use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), new business processes, many software changes, and the purchase of new barcode

Three Tips for Project Tracking Made Easy
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Three Tips for Project Tracking Made Easy

What do your team members do when you ask them the question, “Where are you at on the project?”  Ignore you?  Stare blankly?  Look confused?  Cower?  What makes tracking and reporting so difficult?  After all, “Where are you at?” is a completely reasonable and fair question.  In fact, without answers to that question, we have

Teaching Children Project Management Important Life Skill
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Teaching Children Project Management: Important Life Skill

A couple of years ago, I remember sitting in my car listening to a radio program, riveted to a discussion with Dr. Melvin Levine, co-founder of the non-profit All Kinds of Minds www.allkindsofminds.org .  The subject of the show was his (then) recent book Ready or Not, Here Comes Life, in which he explores why