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Current Newsletter


Date
Subject

September 27, 2018
It's All About Tradeoffs


Archived Newsletters


Date
Subject

August 31, 2018
How to Give Feedback That Really Helps

July 30, 2018
How to Fight Imposter Syndrome

June 29, 2018
Shiny Tools Won't Fix a Rusty Process

May 31, 2018
Dealing with Inflexible Constraints

April 26, 2018
Build a Great Team, and Get Out of Their Way

March 15, 2018
Do You Really Need Documentation?

January 25, 2018
Take Control of Your Project Environment

January 12, 2018
Tracking Project Progress Effectively

December 28, 2017
Plan, but Be Open to Opportunities

December 14, 2017
Building Teams That Work

November 30, 2017
Give the Gift of Holding Back

November 16, 2017
Thankfulness and Appreciation in the Project World

November 2, 2017
Surviving a Project Horror Show

October 19, 2017
How's That Working For You?

October 5, 2017
How (and When) to Ask for Help

September 21, 2017
Shorter Briefings and Better Meetings

September 7, 2017
Critical Stakeholders and DevOps for Non-Unicorns

August 24, 2017
How Truthful Is Your Project Schedule?

August 10, 2017
Coping with Chaos

July 27, 2017
8 Ways to Share Project Information Without Writing Reports

July 13, 2017
How to Get and Keep Your Team's Attention

June 29, 2017
How to Fix a Broken Project

June 15, 2017
The Benefits and Costs of Documentation

June 1, 2017
Don't Be a Canvict: Learn How to Say No.

May 18, 2017
What to Do When It Really Is All Your Fault

May 4, 2017
A Professional Take on the PM Profession

April 20, 2017
Talk to Me! (Say Business Stakeholders Everywhere)

April 6, 2017
DevOps Automation and Stakeholder Voices

March 23, 2017
Does Your Title Really Matter?

March 9, 2017
How Political Correctness Helps Your Projects

February 23, 2017
What DevOps Is and Isn't

February 9, 2017
Role Models and Tools for Improving Your PM Career

January 26, 2017
Six Tips for a Successful Project Launch

January 12, 2017
How to Form Your Personal Board of Directors

December 29, 2016
Eight Great Project Successes in 2016

December 15, 2016
Is That Really What You Want?

December 1, 2016
Looking Back to Look Ahead

November 17, 2016
Ingredients for More Effective Projects

November 3, 2016
10 Tools for Tricky Project Communication

October 20, 2016
Using Empathy to Create Healthier Project Teams

October 6, 2016
Exorcising the Demons in Your Projects

September 22, 2016
What's In a Name?

September 8, 2016
Business Analysis for Beginners

August 25, 2016
4 Ways to Understand "Customers", 5 Risk Mistakes, & Fearless Leadership

July 29, 2016
How Not to Choose a Leader; They're People, Not "Resources"; & Agile Challenges

June 30, 2016
How to get FUN back into your projects

June 6, 2016
Antidotes for Too Many Projects, Too Little Agile Testing, and Too Much Plan Uncertainty

May 6, 2016
Dangers of Flipping the Bozo Bit - plus 6 Ways to Architect Decisions that Stick

April 7, 2016
Project Leader Charisma, BA Value, Quality SW Dev, and Product Team Performance!

March 10, 2016
Communication: Agile demos, meeting messes, and status report linguistics

February 11, 2016
Transforming from PM List-Checking to Recognized Leaders

January 28, 2016
Why comfy shoes and "trained" executives matter to your success

January 14, 2016
Why Agile Teams Need Generalizing Specialists

December 22, 2015
Uncertainty, risk, and the power of late decision-making

December 10, 2015
More tips for successful Agile and common-sense (simple!) PM

November 24, 2015
How the most innovative teams view risk-taking, mistakes, and failures

November 12, 2015
Masterfully Managing Customers, Constraints, and Risk - and with a Smile

October 29, 2015
The Aspects of Personal Effectiveness that Lead to PM Greatness

October 15, 2015
Great Scrum teams, questioning the triple constraint, and incredible executive commitment

October 1, 2015
How Guided Team Autonomy Drives Successful Agile

September 17, 2015
Change is our friend: Perspectives and tools for great project (change) leadership

September 3, 2015
Ways to Be a Highly-Respected Goldilocks of PM - Not too much, not too little, just right

August 20, 2015
Resources to help you lead through conflict re: Agile, virtual meetings, people, and more

August 6, 2015
5 Resources for Achieving Happy Project Customers + Next PMLight FastRAMP

July 23, 2015
Keeping Your Project Teams Focused

July 9, 2015
Tackling Hierarchy-Induced Dysfunction, plus Six Sigma on Projects

June 25, 2015
Clear Objectives and Selfless Motives Make Better Projects

June 11, 2015
Technical Excellence for Agile Practitioners... and everyone else

May 28, 2015
Holistic Methodologies, plus Last Call for PMLight FastRAMP

May 14, 2015
Matching Your Project Mode to Your Team's Needs

April 30, 2015
When Your Best Isn't Good Enough

April 16, 2015
Little Things That Can Have a Big Impact on Your Projects

April 2, 2015
There's More to Projects than "Value" (Plus, 8 Ways to Recover from a Mistake)

March 19, 2015
How to Speak "Executive"

March 5, 2015
Are You a Theory X (Project) Manager in Theory Y Clothing?

February 19, 2015
Are You Kidding Yourself About Your Project?

February 5, 2015
Be a World-Class Project Manager

January 22, 2015
What to Do When More Schedule Detail Won't Help

January 8, 2015
What *executives* think our 2015 goals should be

December 22, 2014
Santa's Project Plan

December 11, 2014
Looking Back, and Looking Ahead

November 25, 2014
Thankful Project Management

November 13, 2014
Agile Testing, New Project Proposals, and Being a Paranoid PM Bulldog

October 30, 2014
13 Rules for Surviving a Horror Movie Project (Plus, check out our awesome site redesign!)

October 16, 2014
No Risk List? What's Your Excuse?

October 2, 2014
New Templates, Blogs, & PMLight FastRAMP plus Stanford-led Conference

September 18, 2014
Don't Just Sit There Waiting for the Future to Happen!

September 4, 2014
Can We Just Be Agile Enough?

August 21, 2014
Is Your Schedule Pressure Worth the Risk?

August 7, 2014
From Values to Practices: Choosing the Right Trajectory

July 24, 2014
Design Thinking, Part 2: Well Rounded Communication

July 10, 2014
Making Project Work Matter

June 26, 2014
What Really Matters to Your Project

June 12, 2014
Let's just put it on the table: Difficult conversations suck.

May 29, 2014
Where are your project's unexpected impact craters?

May 15, 2014
How Changing Your Outlook Can Change Everything

May 1, 2014
How to change behaviors without waving around process memos

April 17, 2014
Building strong teams that can stand up to pressure

April 3, 2014
Team dysfunction, personal failures - why it's all GOOD

March 20, 2014
Tips & Tools for High-Performing Cross-Functional Teams

March 6, 2014
Little Things that Make Big Changes Possible

February 20, 2014
The Follies of Incomplete Agile and Dangerous Project Assumptions

February 6, 2014
Your Precious Time - 8 ways to check it, protect it, direct it

January 23, 2014
Stand up, Stand out - What it means, and looks like, to be a leader on projects

January 9, 2014
Percent Complete and Ridiculous Goals. Plus, Last Chance for Early Bird Pricing!

December 19, 2013
Set Yourself Up for Success in 2014

December 5, 2013
Update Your Resume, Set Your Asking Price, and Find Your Do Mores and Do-Overs

November 21, 2013
Help! My Project Is Broken!

November 7, 2013
Post-Halloween Project Advice: Build Team Spirit While Walking Off Calories

October 24, 2013
The Dark Arts of Project Management: The Man Behind the Curtain

October 10, 2013
The Dark Arts of Project Management: What Are They Thinking?

September 26, 2013
It's All About the Optics

September 12, 2013
PM Light -- Jump to the front of the line

August 29, 2013
Back to School for Project Managers, Part 2

August 15, 2013
Back to School for Project Managers

August 1, 2013
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of Their Way

July 18, 2013
Summer Projects for Sultry Weather

July 2, 2013
A Project Manager's Bill of Rights

June 20, 2013
Can Your Team Answer These Six Critical Questions?

June 6, 2013
Satisfying the Need for (Project) Speed

May 23, 2013
Discover Your Company DNA through Storytelling. Plus, simplifying scary communication.

May 9, 2013
Do you deliver value as a project manager?

April 25, 2013
Start Right, Finish Right

April 11, 2013
Do Project Managers Have a Role in Agile?

March 28, 2013
Late Project, Changed Requirements, BINGO!

March 14, 2013
Be Excellent to One Another: The High Value of Kindness in Business

February 28, 2013
New Templates: Safety Plan, Signoff Process. Plus, Ready-to-Use Document Outlines

February 14, 2013
Just Enough Project Management (and not a bit more)

January 31, 2013
How to Quit Stalling and Start Doing (the Right Stuff)

January 17, 2013
Two New Checklists. Plus, Help Crowdsource an Assessment

January 4, 2013
Discipline: The Relatively Boring Key to the Door of Success

December 20, 2012
Holiday Wishes, and a look ahead to 2013

December 6, 2012
Process Genesis, Project Close-out, and How to Plan a Party

November 20, 2012
Documentation That Serves Your Project, Not Itself

November 8, 2012
Decide and Conquer

October 25, 2012
The Case Against Stack Ranking

October 11, 2012
Are you watching for the right risks?

September 27, 2012
Test everything, keep the good stuff.

September 13, 2012
What's It Worth To You?

August 30, 2012
Fold, Spindle, and Mutilate

August 16, 2012
Agile WBS, the Challenge of Remote Work, and more

August 2, 2012
Staying Focused on What Matters

July 19, 2012
Color Outside the Lines

July 5, 2012
Stage a PM Revolution

June 21, 2012
Passion, Persistence and Patience

June 7, 2012
Choose Your Own Reality

May 24, 2012
"Look, Ma, No Hands!" Risk Management in a Project Environment

May 10, 2012
Little ITIL, Taming a Bully, Earned Value, and more

April 26, 2012
Tools for Sane Project Management, for every role

April 12, 2012
Project Discipline Matters. (And it makes you look like you know what you're doing.)

March 29, 2012
Don't Try to Be Like Steve -- Practical Visions and Tools for Project Leadership

March 15, 2012
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda -- How your language affects your projects

March 1, 2012
Low-Hanging Fruit, Pushing the Limits, and Supporting the Team

February 16, 2012
What's It Worth to You?

February 2, 2012
Time to Decide! (On the other hand...)

January 19, 2012
Too Tired to Care? Then You're Too Tired to Manage!

January 6, 2012
How Can ProjectConnections Help You in 2012?

December 21, 2011
Happy Holidays from ProjectConnections!

December 8, 2011
Doing Away with Magical Thinking

November 23, 2011
What Really Matters: The Menu, or the Meal?

November 10, 2011
Getting Creative with Projects, Processes, and Change

October 27, 2011
The Zombie Apocalypse, Part 2: Risk, Change, and Your Future

October 13, 2011
What's the Score, and What's My Position?

September 29, 2011
You Get What You Measure

September 15, 2011
Communicate, Cope, and CYA

September 1, 2011
Power, Pitfalls, and Productive Communication

August 18, 2011
Scared Yet? Plus, 10 Must-Have Project Documents

August 4, 2011
The fine art of compromise

July 21, 2011
Yes, that really is part of your job

July 7, 2011
Where'd Everybody Go?

June 23, 2011
Does Your Project Have What It Takes?

June 9, 2011
Why Are We Doing This Work?

May 26, 2011
Taking Stock, Making Changes, Keeping Plans Real

May 12, 2011
Creating Order or Coping with Chaos?

April 28, 2011
Help Your Team Help You: Scheduling, Solutions, and Sane Leadership

April 14, 2011
The Power of a Project Mission

March 31, 2011
Bug: A Process Used by PMs to Get Your Attention

March 17, 2011
Measuring Quality, Tracking Tasks, and a Slice of Pi

March 3, 2011
Leading by Listening, from Executives to Team Members

February 17, 2011
6 Ways to Be a Better Team

February 3, 2011
Avoiding "Spirit-Killing" Project Management

January 20, 2011
Why Planning Matters. Why Tomorrow Doesn't. Plus, Take 25 Minutes and Re-Take Control.

January 6, 2011
What does quality mean to you?




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