These are field notes from real project work — what we observe, what we challenge, and where we've had to raise our own game. We don't publish from the sideline. We write from inside the same problems we're helping others solve.
As we explore team management and what it means to our fellow members of leadership, we also have to compare the differences between a team lead vs a manager. While these terms are often used interchangeably, it’s important to understand…
Developing a team is a tentative, complicated process, but building a virtual team is even more tricky. More often than not, management is suddenly called to put a team together that can work remotely. They are asked to change everything…
Team management is a tricky balance between motivation, control, and support. But when you add dispersion to the mix, things get a lot more complicated. Managing virtual teams that rarely meet in person and can span across the globe is…
As with most things, your efforts will be scrambled when you work without intention. Without direction, you can easily get stuck moving in circles. Team management is no different. When handled without direction, intention, goals, and care, a team transforms…
Every single day, we communicate. Unless you are out on the fringes of society, you exchange some kind of a message with someone every day of your life. Even for those on the edge, you’ve probably scared off a bird…
Agile project management has a weird reputation. Some see it as a “magic” solution that suddenly makes all their problems disappear. Some see it as the work of satan that can’t be trusted and will lead to the immediate demise…
No matter what your processes and operations look like, it’s not wild to say that some of your energy is dedicated to risk management. In business, it’s simply required. In project management, the systems associated with risk management are used…
Effective stakeholder management has no one face. For each project, a handful of stakeholder groups have all kinds of requirements at all times. You’ll have those with high levels of power and interest who want to know everything. You’ll have…
Stakeholder engagement is almost always looked over by our fellow project managers. You have a lot going on and barely have enough time in the day as it is. You’re probably looking at this post wondering what the heck this…
Managing stakeholders is an exhausting and labor-intensive complicated process, but only if you let it. We get how easy it is to slip into a worn pattern of putting out fires and fixing problems one after the other. We are…
