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...

A Project Management Office (PMO) is put in place by organizations not to run projects themselves but to help the project managers run...

American exceptionalism is the term used to describe the idea that values, political system, and evolution (historical point of view) of...

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...

Emily in Paris (link to IMDb) is a Netflix comedy-drama first released in 2020. It is about an American marketing executive named Emily,...

When it comes to automating pieces of your professional services practice, Resource Management is one that isn’t always top of the list....

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...

I’ve worked in a number of different companies with different organizational structures to support the delivery of projects. While all...

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 concept has been in the headlines during the past few years and is becoming more and more controversial. Let’s start with a few...

Those of a certain vintage (like myself) have grown up watching the Simpsons. One of my favorite lines is the “Purple Monkey Dishwasher”...

And I don’t mean the future as in crystal ball future. To better explain, let’s start with an anecdote. I was talking with a friend, and...

One (but not the only) common thread among successful project teams is the ability for team members to trust one another. Not just trust...

Indulgence was added as a dimension of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (IND for short) in 2010, making it its newest dimension....

Tracking the budget of a project is the most visible high priority task for a project manager. Luckily, it’s also the most automatable...

Testing is probably the most critical phase of your project, whether you are developing a custom solution or implementing a COTS...

UA index in national cultures, according to Hofstede

No. This is not a post about how to gloriously quit your job (sorry!) – this is about how you do your job more efficiently to make the...

Succession planning is an often-undervalued task when it comes to organizational management. Learning the job of your boss and teaching...

As we move up into progressively senior positions in our career, we move from being ‘doers’ to ‘delegators’. For many (myself included)...