When many people think of project management they think of rigid adherence to rules and defined process. They often envision a project manager sitting in front of his/her laptop receiving updates from the team, entering it into Microsoft Project, and...

In August, I penned an article that discussed the differences between waterfall and agile project management methodologies. As stated in that article, waterfall is more appropriate when requirements are clearly understood and there is not much...

The science of project management is obvious. Calculating resource needs against upcoming work, mapping the critical path for your project timeline, or managing your budget based on a fluctuating scope. But there’s also an art to project management....

Watching my alma mater Notre Dame dismantle Nevada this past Saturday, I couldn’t help but think that there were three main things that allowed ND to win the game: Superior talent Preparation Motivation Having one of these things without the others...

In these tough economic times, it is imperative that you focus on ways to improve yourself and your career. One way to accomplish this task is to perform your own personal SWOT (not to be confused with SWAT) Analysis. What is a SWOT Analysis? SWOT...