Most Underrated Features of MS Project
MS Project is one of the premier tools out there for developing and managing project schedules. It is incredibly feature-rich and today I...
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martyschwan
Jan 4, 20222 min
Wearing Out Your Mental Transmission – The Cost of Switching Gears
With most workers who can work from home it seems that there is an increased factor of constant task switching. Being ‘accessible’ to...
martyschwan
Dec 22, 20212 min
Presenting Your Methodology
Part of almost every sales presentation for your COTS or custom product will involve some manner of showing off how you plan to deliver...
martyschwan
Nov 26, 20212 min
Meeting Management – Cost of Over-Inviting
We’ve all been there before – you need to call a meeting but aren’t sure where to draw the line at invitees. This post will focus on the...
martyschwan
Nov 25, 20212 min
Structuring an Effective PMO – Providing Guidance
One of the most important jobs of a PMO is to provide guidance to the team of project managers in the organization. The PMO will (should)...
martyschwan
Nov 11, 20212 min
Product Review – Smartsheet
Today I’d like to provide a review of one of the PSA (professional services automation) tools out there gaining some popularity in the...
The Cultural Nomad
Oct 27, 20212 min
Proxemics Is Also a Cultural Preference
Suppose you’ve had the opportunity to travel to different places of the world, with various national cultures. In that case, you might...
martyschwan
Oct 24, 20212 min
Product Review – Clarizen Capacity Planning
I’ve used a multitude of PSA (professional services automation) tools over the span of my career and feel compelled to give a review of...
martyschwan
Oct 22, 20212 min
The Value of Focus Time
It’s been said many times that multi-tasking is simply not possible – our brains are not wired that way, which is true. We cannot...
martyschwan
Oct 21, 20212 min
Structuring and Effective PMO Part 3 – Organizational Buy In
Your project management office (PMO) is not going to be very effective if you do not get organizational and executive buy in to what you...
martyschwan
Oct 15, 20212 min
Structuring and Effective PMO Part 2 – Templates
Building a PMO is a very challenging yet rewarding task. In my last post I talked about the importance of methodology, not just from a...
martyschwan
Sep 30, 20212 min
Building an Effective PMO Part 1 – Methodology
A Project Management Office (PMO) is put in place by organizations not to run projects themselves but to help the project managers run...
The Cultural Nomad
Sep 30, 20212 min
Is Exceptionalism Exclusive of Americans?
American exceptionalism is the term used to describe the idea that values, political system, and evolution (historical point of view) of...
martyschwan
Sep 23, 20212 min
How to Deliver a Great Presentation (Remotely)
Anyone who gives presentations as part of their job has most certainly had to adapt to the changing landscape over the last 18 months and...
The Cultural Nomad
Aug 30, 20213 min
Emily in Paris and Ted Lasso: Two Different Ways to Acculturate
Emily in Paris (link to IMDb) is a Netflix comedy-drama first released in 2020. It is about an American marketing executive named Emily,...
martyschwan
Aug 30, 20212 min
Productizing Your Implementation – Resource Management
When it comes to automating pieces of your professional services practice, Resource Management is one that isn’t always top of the list....
martyschwan
Aug 11, 20212 min
Embracing Bad News
One of the most common and most difficult things we need to do as project managers and leaders is embracing bad news. It’s inevitable...
martyschwan
Aug 9, 20212 min
Functional or Matrix – Yea or Nay?
I’ve worked in a number of different companies with different organizational structures to support the delivery of projects. While all...
martyschwan
Aug 9, 20212 min
What Should a PMO Be and Do?
When I tell friends that I work in a PMO, their first question is always “what is a PMO?”. For those not familiar with what a PMO is (or...
The Cultural Nomad
Aug 6, 20213 min
What’s That Cultural Appropriation We Keep Hearing About?
The concept has been in the headlines during the past few years and is becoming more and more controversial. Let’s start with a few...