Demonstrating a Culture Change
By Eileen Strider You want to introduce a change into your project’s culture? How do you do this in a way that gives you some hope of success? Well, no two organizations’ cultures are exactly alike....
View ArticleThe Role of the Project Manager
by Marie Benesh One of the unfortunate roles of the project manager is sometimes having to be a buffer between an irrational or uninformed customer, sponsor or senior manager and the project team. I...
View ArticleBeing Unintentionally Oblivious
Listen to our latest podcast, Episode 3 How to Know Your Project is in Trouble. We’d love to see your comments and your own examples of being unintentionally oblivious. Click on read more to add your...
View ArticleA Unique Role for the President in ERP Projects
by Wayne Strider You may think it unusual that I’d be suggesting an ERP project role for the president of an organization. He or she has larger more important business to address, and is too busy to...
View ArticleThe Blame Game
By Eileen Strider It’s so tempting and so much easier to place blame than take responsibility. Typically, there is some element of truth to where the blame is being placed. We use blaming because it...
View ArticleWhat’s Stopping Me?
By Wayne Strider “I fantasize about what it would be like if I could do what I’m really passionate about in this company”, Curt said as he drew a savory mouthful of coffee from his mug and swallowed...
View ArticleThe Project Observer – What Do You See?
by Marie Benesh In our most recent podcast, How To Know Your Project is in Trouble, we mentioned the role of observer. This is a person who is charged with looking at the project from a different...
View ArticleYou Are Going to Love the Changes. Really?
By Eileen Strider Employees can sniff out the real impact of a change. They realize that a change might be good for some but not necessarily for all. Customers and the company might benefit. The...
View ArticleWhen You Want to Run Away and Hide
By Wayne Strider Being an experienced project manager does not make you immune to errors in judgment, puzzling interactions, bumpy relationships, or the physical and emotional responses that go with...
View ArticleReadiness: The #1 Predictor of Project Success
By Eileen Strider, Marie Benesh and Wayne Strider The Vice President was worried. The project to replace their administrative systems was gaining support and speed, but was the organization really...
View ArticleBeing Understood
by Wayne Strider “Pay attention to what I mean, not what I say.” my father would sometimes say to me when I was a kid. I did not know what to make of that. To me it appeared that sometimes he said...
View ArticleProjects Take a Community….to Succeed and to Fail
By Eileen Strider In the world of projects, organizations reward project managers for success and punish them for failure, as if the project manager was solely responsible for either. As a project...
View ArticleWorking With The Smartest People on Earth
By Eileen Strider “We are the smartest people on earth; if we can’t build it, why do we think someone else can?” This is a quote from an RFP (Request for Proposal) we recently received. The...
View Article3 Reasons Why ERP Projects Need the President’s Involvement
By Wayne Strider In a previous post, “A Unique Role for the President in ERP Projects”, I suggested that an organization’s president has a unique role in ERP projects and gave examples of what the...
View ArticlePutting Yourself in the Picture
By Eileen Strider Who could possibly be missing from your project? The least noticeable and most important person – you, all of you, your whole self, not just your brain. How do I know this? Because I...
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A Framework for Project Launch Decisions: To Go or Not to Go Live
By Eileen Strider Although everyone knows that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) system was not ready for prime time on the October 1 launch date, does anyone really know how the decision was made...
View ArticleThe Project Observer – What Do You See?
by Marie Benesh In our most recent podcast, How To Know Your Project is in Trouble, we mentioned the role of observer. This is a person who is charged with looking at the project from a different...
View ArticleYou Are Going to Love the Changes. Really?
By Eileen Strider Employees can sniff out the real impact of a change. They realize that a change might be good for some but not necessarily for all. Customers and the company might benefit. The...
View ArticleWhen You Want to Run Away and Hide
By Wayne Strider Being an experienced project manager does not make you immune to errors in judgment, puzzling interactions, bumpy relationships, or the physical and emotional responses that go with...
View ArticleReadiness: The #1 Predictor of Project Success
By Eileen Strider, Marie Benesh and Wayne Strider The Vice President was worried. The project to replace their administrative systems was gaining support and speed, but was the organization really...
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