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Articles of Interest

100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers- Reprinted from NASA’s ASK magazine. 100 (actually 128) lessons learned from project management. Compiled by Gerry Madden, Goddard Space Flight Center (Retired)

What is the Answer When You Don't Know the Question? (Aka Fiscal Budgeting for Project Portfolios Project management consultant Max Wideman discusses problems with budgets for projects being created on a fiscal basis before the scope of a project has been clearly defined and offers an idea of what might be done to create efficient budgets that match the scope of a project.

14 Key Principles for PM SuccessProject consultant Michael Greer describes 14 key principles in project management. Principals like, a project must be sold and re-sold, Deliverables must evolve gradually, in successive approximations, and Project Planning is everything -- and ongoing.

Agile Project LeadershipKent McDonald of Knowledge Bridge Partners discusses the differences with traditional project leadership with agile project leadership and the principals behind agile project leadership.

Project Management Best Practices - A Quick Lesson- Simon Buehring offers a quick lesson in Project Management from defining scope, deliverables, project planning and more.

Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Project Management- Project manager Jim Chapman takes a humorous route to describe why project management should not be used.

How to Move Project Management Out of IT Into The Rest of The Organization- Dave Paradi , of Business Improvement Architects, discusses how project managers working in an IT department can help other departments trying to learn project management methodology and the concepts of project management technique migration.

Successful Software Management- 14 Lessons Learned- Johanna Rothman of Rothman Consulting Group lays out management tips for project managers. Sections such as “Know what they pay you to do” “Avoid Micromanaging or Inflicting Help” or “Plan Training time each Week.”  Johanna has given sound advice that any project manager will enjoy. A good read.

Taking Over an Existing Project- Things You Can Do- Project manager and consultant Max Wideman presents a real case of taking over a project and what he did to understand the functionality and scope of the project at hand.

Ten Guaranteed Ways to Screw Up Any Project- Michael Greer takes a comical, but realistic approach to things that some project managers may do that will screw up their ongoing project.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership- Loni Pacelli discusses the 7 deadly sins of project management such as Indecisiveness, Disorganization and Negativism.