BLUF Communication in Project Management
Projects are full of detail. Deep and wide detail. Yet, while we must master the detail, we must communicate up, down, and across the organization. Is …
Continue ReadingProject Management Focus Tips: Begin with the End
All too often projects take on a life of their own and people lose sight of its purpose. How can you find a navigational tool for communicating …
Continue ReadingTime for a Sanity Check: Project Management Strategies
As a project manager, you must bring order to the chaos that is often close at hand in the form of recommendations, ideas or actions that can …
Continue ReadingTips for Project Managers: Analyzing Roles and Relationships
Considering formal and informal organization structure is part of your due diligence. So the question is, what value can this information provide you …
Continue ReadingAmazon and Whole Foods: Project Management Data Points
This article looks at a potentially very valuable asset of Whole Foods – the stores as data points. How Amazon might leverage the data, whether this …
Continue ReadingAmazon/Whole Foods and Project Management: What Conflicts May Occur?
Whole Foods is known as an upscale, higher end (i.e. more expensive) provider of groceries, whereas Amazon is the ultimate efficient provider (i.e. …
Continue ReadingDelivery Points in Project Management: The Amazon/Whole Foods Merger Example
One facet of the Amazon – Whole Foods merger is that Amazon is acquiring a large number of ideal delivery points. This article discusses these …
Continue ReadingDisruptive Strategic Projects That May Result from Amazon Buying Whole Foods
The grocery industry has experienced intense change and competition in recent years, but has hit a tipping point with the disruptive merger of Amazon …
Continue ReadingMaking the Most of the Pareto Principle in Project Management
80:20 thinking is not just a once and done thing. You can apply it over and over again at multiple levels, a bit like peeling an onion. It is at these …
Continue ReadingProject Management Prioritization Using the Pareto Principle
It’s easy to imagine how you can use 80:20 thinking to prioritize. How can you leverage 80:20 thinking to manage not only what matters most, but also …
Continue ReadingUsing 80:20 Thinking to Be More Effective in Project Management
The 80:20 rule applies in virtually every situation in the universe. It’s very useful to identify the 20 percent and the 80 percent, but what do you …
Continue ReadingUsing the Pareto Principal to Find Work-Life Balance
Using this alternative 80:20 thinking, you make an acceptable compromise with yourself and make a trade-off between approaching things one way versus …
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