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Why Conflict is Good for Your Project

Why Conflict is Good for your Project By Dave Coddington When I was a younger project manager, I strove for perfection. The ultimate goal was to run the perfect project where everything was completed on-time, within budget, with great quality and to the absolute delight of the customer. When I say everything had to be perfect, I mean everything. Every milestone. Every task. Every detail.I was fortunate to manage a few projects that went pretty [...]

By |2023-02-13T05:51:48-08:00January 16th, 2013|Tips|Comments Off on Why Conflict is Good for Your Project

Success: Mission, Vision, Goals, Objectives…and Projects!

Success: Mission, Vision, Goals, Objectives... And Projects! By Dave Coddington When it comes to success, there's lots of talk about mission statements, vision statements, goals and objectives -- and for good reason. These tools can be incredibly helpful to define the what and the why of success. A great mission statement helps people understand the underlying reason why the team or organization exists. A good vision statement defines a preferred future that inspires individuals, teams and organizations to see what the future could [...]

By |2023-02-13T05:51:49-08:00January 3rd, 2013|Tips|Comments Off on Success: Mission, Vision, Goals, Objectives…and Projects!

What is a Project Manager?

What is a Project Manager? By Dave Coddington A project is something that you plan and do, usually in a series of steps, to achieve a specific objective or outcome within a specific timeframe. The goal of a project is to achieve some sort of positive result, benefit or success. A project manager is someone who oversees the completion of a project. Typically, a project manager helps define the core elements of the project -- scope, [...]

By |2023-02-13T05:51:49-08:00December 27th, 2012|Tips|Comments Off on What is a Project Manager?

The Five Stages of Every Project

The Five Stages Of Every Project By Dave Coddington According to the Project Management Institute, there are five stages or sets of steps that every single project must follow: 1. Initiate. During this stage, interested people define the project at a high-level, identify the goals of the project and set the guidelines and constraints to govern the project going forward. Once defined, a decision is made to move forward with the project or not. The [...]

By |2023-02-13T05:51:49-08:00December 18th, 2012|Tips|Comments Off on The Five Stages of Every Project

What is an Outlier?

"Outlier" is a scientific term to describe things or phenomena that lie outside normal experience. In the summer, in Paris, we expect most days to be somewhere between warm and very hot. But imagine if you had a day in the middle of August where the temperature fell below freezing. That day would be outlier. And while we have a very good understanding of why summer days in Paris are warm or hot, we know a good deal less about why a summer day in Paris might be freezing cold. In this book [Outliers] I'm interested in people who are outliers—in men and women who, for one reason or another, are so accomplished and so extraordinary and so outside of ordinary experience that they are as puzzling to the rest of us as a cold day in August."

By |2023-02-13T05:51:49-08:00December 12th, 2012|Tips|Comments Off on What is an Outlier?
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