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Where to begin creating your project budget?

Defining a budget for development projects is frequently referred to as an art form. As seems to be true with all business ventures, your cost projection can easily be the subject of “fuzzy math,” with little bearing on reality. Hourly rates for development time, escalation costs for rapid development, and pricing of tools and other [...]

Top 10 Qualities of an Excellent Manager

An excellent manager taps into talents and resources in order to support and bring out the best in others. An outstanding manager evokes possibility in others.
1. Creativity
Creativity is what separates competence from excellence. Creativity is the spark that propels projects forward and that captures peoples’ attention. Creativity is the ingredient that pulls the different pieces [...]

How Do You Determine Project Success?

Is fulfilling the triple constraints sufficient to determine if a project is successful?  I asked this question of PM students in my online course about management and leadership in a project environment:
“I worked a project that had rules in place by upper management when I arrived that said that if you used a tool to [...]