by Wes Balakian | Jan 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Preparing an Overly Ambitious Schedule The more inexperienced the project manager, the more optimistic he or she becomes when preparing the schedule baseline. While ambitious schedules are nice to have, they are often unrealistic and can make matters worse. Customers...
by Wes Balakian | Jan 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Pretending to Know More than You Actually Do For the most part, project managers today possess an understanding of technology rather than a command of technology yet persist in trying to make technical decisions on the project. This usually infuriates line managers to...
by Wes Balakian | Dec 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Too Much Detail Inexperienced project managers tend to become enamored with work breakdown structures (WBS). One newly appointed project manager asked me to review his WBS for an IT project. The thirty-day project had 340 work packages and some of the work packages...
by David Wilsey | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
I learned two lessons in college that I still think about – one in the kitchen and one as a strategy execution consultant. My professor claimed during a cell biology lesson that if you leave iceberg lettuce in water for about 20 minutes its cells expand as they soak...
by Gail Stout Perry | Sep 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
I recently had a conversation with an organization’s board member who said, “I’m so frustrated. We have a balanced scorecard but I don’t see how the things the management team is measuring or executing are linked to our strategy. I don’t see the connections. Our...
