Stakeholder management is one of the all-time most common project management topics — I’d argue that this and “scope” are the Big 2 — and there are lots of methods to tackle it. Today we’ll talk through the stakeholder management RACI model; it’s one of the most common models for analyzing stakeholders!…
Stakeholder Management Power/Interest Model
Stakeholder management is one of the all-time most common project management topics — I’d argue that this and “scope” are the Big 2 — and there are lots of methods to tackle it. Today we’ll talk through the Stakeholder Management Power/Interest Model; it’s one of the most common models for analyzing stakeholder…
Executing and Strategic Thinking in Project Management
This recap of Executing and Strategic Thinking in project management is part two of a series on how we can map skills from the CliftonStrengths domains onto project management to articulate how our experience transfers.
Using Diverse Skills To Manage Projects
This post is part one of two where I’m discussing how project managers almost always end up using diverse skills to manage (not control) projects. (Part 2 is here!) I’m writing it because one of the most common flags I see in early project managers is this idea of wanting to “control”…
Understanding the Project Life Cycle
To help us understand how the project life cycle helps us understand projects and project management’s role in work success, let me just share that I’ve drawn about twenty-six lemons in the last week. Not a metaphor; let me back up. I enrolled in a graphic design certificate a few weeks back….
Imposter Syndrome as a New Project Manager
Is there anything new to say about imposter syndrome?, she asked herself, typing a post title about imposter syndrome as a new project manager anyway. What causes imposter syndrome? There are two “characters”, if you will, in any tale of imposter syndrome. The first character is the story you believe about the…