Throughout my career I have held roles with all kinds of titles, but in the end, at my core, I am a project manager. That is how I see myself and how I tend to identify, no matter what my formal title. And it’s for a very, very simple reason: there is one constant in [...]

As I look at job postings on Dice and Monster, I have been noticing a disturbing, yet unsurprising, trend emerge: an increase in the number of employers seeking candidates who can function as both project managers and development leads on projects. Naturally, difficult economic conditions demand a re-evaluation of spending habits. And, in cases where [...]

One of the biggest lessons I learned from working for Dave wasn’t just what I learned from him, but that I came to understand the importance of timing because of him: there were so many things I learned from Dave only because I was at a point in my life where I was open to [...]

This assertion could, of course, just be hubris: after all, I’ve spent a decade running in Project Management circles and have only recently started dipping my toes in Communications circles, but one of the most interesting things about this year’s IABC 2008 International Conference was listening to the speakers (at the general sessions) encourage members [...]

Project Managers tend to be very process oriented. As a group, we like things standardized, uniform and easily repeatable. That is why I tend to find it amusing that every single job I’ve ever had goes through the process of defining and re-defining their own project delivery process every year or two. As an organization [...]

One of the things that I was bummed about as a result of the re-org here at work was that I lost my direct reports. There were actually two sides to that: On one hand, I wanted to have direct reports as a matter of resume-building, and to cultivate my formal managerial training. On the [...]