by Philip R. Diab | Jul 31, 2011 | PM Leadership Skills
A friend of mine shared with me that during a performance evaluation he provided feedback to his employee that while this person had strong leadership skills he was lacking in humility. He went on to highlight various incidents where this individual’s lack of...
by Philip R. Diab | Jul 30, 2011 | PM Practice
I have not done the math but I’m willing to bet that a significant portion of the project manager’s time is taken up in dealing with people issues where different points of view come into play. I suspect that in most of these instances the PM is having to...
by Philip R. Diab | Jul 29, 2011 | PM Practice
There’s an old joke about IBM I heard many years ago that goes something like this: “What is the difference between IBM and Microsoft. On a 10 person project team IBM has 9 managers and one programmer and microsoft has 9 programmers and 1 manager.”...
by Philip R. Diab | Jul 28, 2011 | PM Practice
Project management practitioners often become accustomed to saying no to stakeholders. Whether the issue is the inclusion of a new requirement or the fast tracking of a product feature, PMs learn that in order to maintain a balance between customer satisfaction and...
by Philip R. Diab | Jul 27, 2011 | Management Trends
Early on in my project management career as I was coming up to speed of the overall PM framework and process I was introduced to the whole concept of stakeholder management. I recall during one of the very first training sessions I participated in where the...
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