Project management can sometimes be a truly rewarding job but you must at all times be prepared for having difficult conversations with your clients. Like for instance when your customer is not satisfied with your deliverables. And he wants to share that...

Judging by the number of similar blog posts, I guess I'm not the only one trying to map traditional project roles to Scrum roles :-) Situation: I'm a PM in a software development company. So far we practiced RUP but now we're moving to a more agile...

This might sound like a blasphemy, but bear with me... :) Have you ever read a horoscope while flipping through pages of your morning papers, cup of coffee in your hand? I do this sometimes. I read my horoscope, laugh a little and momentarily ...

If project fairy came to see me and offered me one trait for my project team, I would definitely choose accountability. People tend to mix accountability with responsibility. Which isn't so hard in some parts of the world, i.e. Croatia, partly due to...

It is of utmost importance to set the project ground rules as soon as possible. That being true, can you think of a better moment to do so than project kickoff? If there is a Christmas-like day on a project, it must be the kickoff day. Everybody is...

After a long and hard work nothing seems more compelling than a nice vacation with your brain detached from everyday tasks and worries. Key prerequisite to achieve such state of mind is to make yourself replaceable. Many people think that being...

Stakeholder management is without any doubt one of the most important segments of project management. We all do it, consciously or not. And stakeholders love it. They love being listened to and taken care of. The only problem is that, on complex projects,...

I'm currently reading a book by Michael Cordy, The Source. In a nutshell, the lead character is forced into finding the mythical Garden of God, the source of all life on Earth, located somewhere in the Amazon jungle in order to retrieve some magical...

So, you thought you had it all worked out... It was back then in those beautiful days of early Inception. When sponsor gave you the project, you found yourself a brilliant business analyst and second to none software architect. You did the estimates and...

I recently found myself in a situation where project was in deep trouble. Problems were piling over my head, customer wasn't really sure what he was asking for, requirements were poorly managed, and so on... (a very sad story, I admit). All of this made...