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This section is dedicated to getting hard-won real-world how-to into the hands of the rest of us. Each case details a project or organizational scenario, the challenges faced, what was at stake, and what those involved did to solve specific problems, implement new practices, or both. Each interview relays career anecdotes and first-person advice from experienced managers.

Projects and Programs

• Achieving High-Performing Project Teams - Part 1 - Jeanne Bradford of TCGen on the PM skills that matter most for the team achieving high performance
• Adapting PM Techniques and Templates to a Mini-Project- An example, from a personal project, of the power of common-sense, just-enough project techniques for even small, simple efforts.
• Conquering Micro-Management - An example of picking the right management tools for your environment and specific teams
• Consolidating to a common pharma project management approach: What it took after the M&A of two drastically-different pharmaceutical companies
• High-Speed Conflict and Scope Creep on a Partner Project: Resolving mismatches on a rapid web services development effort
• How a large financial institution married classroom training and weekly mentoring for rapid development of their junior project managers
• How an ASIC Company Selects the Right Projects, Manages the customer, and always finishes on time
• How an IT Team Broke Free From the Requirements Morass - a fast and successful project turnaround when there was little time left
• Accomplishing a Project Recovery and Selling by Doing - Demonstrating Project Management value fast for a project in trouble
• Showing Your Team What Urgent Looks Like - Stopping the slips to make a challenging, must-do schedule
• Implementing Software Requirements Management - Not just for big companies; making it work in a different environment
• Professional development as linchpin: Enabling large-scale business-model transformation in a global IT firm
• Spiraling In - An Example of Unexpected Failure - An on-schedule medical device project that failed miserably anyway
• Speaking Truth To Power to Save a Technology Project - Leading from the middle to correct a troubled architecture
• Which Rev 2 Are We Building? - Completing a 3-month project in half the time, with twice the (non-matching) documents
• Practical Knowledge Transfer for Getting New Team Members Up to Speed - An interview with Steve Trautman, author of Teach What You Know
• Is Project Planning Dead? - Doug DeCarlo on planning in the midst of chaos and uncertainty
• Selling Executives, Planning, and Post-Mortems - Wisdom from software PM Barbara Zirolli of Hewlett Packard
• When a more detailed schedule was NOT going to help a project go faster! - How a small software company countered their CEO's schedule demands and weekly target changes

• Acknowledging trouble too late: An example of what it looks like when a project waits too long to make changes and pivot
• Moving from stand-offs to trade-offs: How a team overcame a massive requirements deadlock with a savvy expression of project alternatives
• Saving the project by throwing out the plan: How a troubled medical device software project totally reset itself and recovered by switching to iterative development mid-stream
• Dealing with a disruptive technical team member: How a newer PM stumbled onto how to satisfy a vocally unhappy team member
• The folly of compartmentalizing during project kickoff: How a multi-organization team resisted getting together early - and how they paid for that big-time later on
• Countering heroism and burnout on an exhausted and distrustful team - what a dysfunctional team discovered about its real underlying issues

Organization

• Getting Process-Skeptical Teams to Use Project Management Processes and Development Processes - Overcoming resistance to dreaded "process" in a wireless networking company
• Implementing an Enterprise Portfolio Management System for IT and Beyond
• Implementing a PM Interest Group - Panelists discuss project management best practices and lessons learned
• Improving Project Management & Increasing Its Perceived Value - Career highlights and favorite techniques
• Making an Enterprise PMO Successful - Serve Vanilla and Be Like Switzerland - Interview with Lisa DiTullio
• When a more detailed schedule was NOT going to help a project go faster! - How a small software company countered their CEO's schedule demands and weekly target changes

• Adopting PM in a Congressional "start-up": How project management principles transformed a congressional office
• Project-based organizational change: How organizing ad hoc teams enabled an enterprise financial software company to make big overall changes
• Standardizing development processes after an acquisition: How 3 divisions came up with a common product development process without coming to blows
• Implementing project processes early and real-time: How a small but fast-growing high tech company started early with defined product development processes
• Growing project managers real-time: How a young company grew a cadre of technical project managers from the ground up
• Credibility is in the eyes of the beholder: How a newly-hired PM blew his own credibility in the first two weeks
• Getting going with resource planning: How a large IT shop acknowledged the resource madness and took a first step
• Simple but meaningful portfolio management: How a biotech company got lost in its spreadsheets and learned to look for leverage points

Interviews

Practical Knowledge Transfer for Professionals - An interview with Steve Trautman, author of Teach What You Know

Case Studies

Making a Leap Forward in Project Execution Ability after a Disastrous Project

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