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Contract Manager
Contract management becomes strategic for many companies exposed to complex projects.
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A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilful Sailor
In Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide (Project Management Institute, 2013), change management is presented as an essential organizational capability that cascades across and…
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Enhance Influence and Results
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Most people think grit is purely about basic tenacity and persistence. There is a notion that some people get ahead because they are simply gifted, or…
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How the U. S. defense department trains its top project managers
For more than 40 years, the Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) has been training project managers for the U.S. Department of Defense. The course has changed dramatically since then, with…
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Developing superior project teams at NASA
Although there is widespread belief that overall project success is often heavily based on an effective team, there is no empirical evidence to support this belief. In this paper, the author…
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Engaging your team to greater project performance
Managers and executives have understood the importance of employee engagement for the last two decades, however, many engagement programs are falling short of the desired goal. According to a recent…
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How RJ Reynolds developed their workforce for improved project management and service management in IT
In 2012, Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI) embarked upon an initiative to develop project management and service competencies in an effort to correct serious deficiencies in meeting budgets and…
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The human factor in project management
One of the biggest challenges to successful project implementation is the evolution of the project team. The challenge of taking a diverse group of individuals, with varying backgrounds and…
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Why some teams flop, while other teams rock!
No other single factor has as much predictive power of the success or failure of your projects and programs than the health of your teams. Today, more and more work is being performed by teams, both…
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This IS your grandfather's project management: Building a trust-based team
A project team lacking trust is not really a team; rather, it is just a group of people, working together, often struggling with issues, missing deadlines, and having disappointing results. Without…
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