The Difference Between Product and Project Management
In this Project Pointer, Bonnie answers a question about whether it makes any sense to argue over whether project management or product management is “better.” Spoiler alert: no sense at all.
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Understanding Risks Through Links to Your Project’s Triple Constraints
To make good, informed decisions, stakeholders have to really understand the project’s risks. This Project Pointer suggests linking the impact of each risk to one or more of the project constraints—scope, time, or cost.
How to Speed Up a Tardy Team
A reader writes in with a problem getting a team to deliver on schedule. This Project Pointer provides some tips for lighting a fire under a team to complete projects more quickly, and more importantly, on time.
Helping Your Sponsor to Be More Helpful
Sponsors often aren’t effective because they don’t know what to do. This Project Pointer describes what you can do to help your sponsor be more helpful to the project.
GanttPro: Another Online PM Tool That’s Worth a Look
I spent some time exploring the features of GanttPro, an online project management tool that isn’t covered in my LinkedIn Learning course. This week’s Project Pointer provides a quick overview of what it can do.
Why Introverts Make Great Project Managers
Some of the best project managers are introverts. This article generously shared with my newsletter by Anna Lung’aho Anderson explains not only why introverts make great PMs, but also how they can lean into their strengths to lead and succeed.
Should You Resurrect That Doomed Project?
This week’s Project Pointer answers a question from a reader about whether to accept a chance to play Dr. Frankenstein on a seemingly deceased project. Send me your project-related questions to get an answer in future posts!
Prioritization? What Prioritization?
This week’s Project Pointer answers a question from a reader about how to get stakeholders to prioritize requirements when the project budget has been cut radically. Send me your project-related questions to get an answer in future posts!
Better listening. Better results.
No matter how well you already listen, you can increase your success by listening even better. This Project Pointer gives you exercises to strengthen your and your team’s listening skills. (And you’ll learn other important things at the same time.)
How to Get Buy-in from Non-management Stakeholders
The business case that management uses to justify a project might not motivate non-management stakeholders to buy into the project’s outcomes. This project pointer talks about how to get unenthusiastic stakeholders on board by designing motivators for these stakeholders into the project (if possible).
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