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Project Smart is the project management resource that helps managers at all levels to improve their performance. We provide an important knowledge base for those involved in managing projects of all kinds. With weekly updates it keeps you in touch with the latest project management thinking.
Project management is a skill that must be learned and refined like any other. It takes time and experience to become a good project manager, longer to become a great project manager. A good starting point is our Introduction to Project Management
Don't Just Manage the Plan, Engage Your Team Members!
As project managers, it's tempting to focus entirely on our project plan. But successful execution of your project plan is entirely dependent on your project team. And your project team is dependent on each team member! For example, if your team is all working well together except one person, who is lacking motivation and missing deadlines, than the whole team will start having trouble, and your project success may be in jeopardy.
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Newest Articles
A Project Manager's Guide to Systems Thinking: Part II
If we become better at systems thinking, we'll be more successful at addressing problems and effecting changes for the long-term. In the first part of this article, we explored systems and created a casual loop diagram (CLD). In this article, we're going to look at the basic behaviours of systems. If we want to solve a problem or influence outcomes, we need to understand why the system is behaving as it is.
A Project Manager's Guide to Systems Thinking: Part I
What's needed for complex problem-solving is a technique that looks holistically at the whole and this is what systems thinking can help us do. If we become better at systems thinking, we'll be more successful at addressing problems and effecting changes for the long-term. In this first article, we'll cover some of the basics about systems thinking, and in the second article, we'll look at the archetypes of systems' behaviour and how we can use them for problem solving and effecting change.
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- Strategic Partnership: An Imperative for Project Management in Multiplayer Setting http://bit.ly/c1d9RU #pmot #pm #pmp Thu 29th July 2010
