Index of Articles

Project Manager Competency Model

This article is a description of the project management competency model that guides our selection of this site's content.  It is composed of a single section that describes the four mutually supportive areas of expertise that underlie project manager performance.

The Five Avenues of Project Manager Competency Development

Project manager development is best based on an understanding of how project managers' competency requirements change across a career. The needed technical competencies identified by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and others. However, there are other, broader changes in leadership and management requirements that we should be aware of as we plot the course of a project manager's development. In this article we describe five key leadership and management requirement shifts that occur over a project manager's career that should be considered in project manager development.
Project Manager Competency Development Article

Honeymoon Hangover

This article talks about some of the issues a PM needs to formally address and resolve during the first couple of weeks of a project's startup in order to build a firm foundation for its management.  Key among these issues are those concerning the projects scope and risk

The article has seven sections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Stakeholder Review
  3. Project Success Criteria
  4. Product Standards
  5. Project Assumptions
  6. Project Risks
  7. Practical Considerations

Decisiveness

This article provides some points to consider about your decisiveness and some scenarios, an exercise, and a self-interview to help you gain some insight into what your decision making style is and how you might improve it.

There are four sections in this article:

  1. Introduction
  2. Scenarios
  3. Exercise
  4. Development

Learning Strategies for Project Managers

This series of articles aims to help you determine your learning skills and optimal learning style and to maximally exploit them in learning new project management concepts, skills, and techniques.  

The series will consist of these four articles that will be published in turn:

  1. Overall Learning Strategy for Project Management  (Available)
  2. Determining Your Learning Style(s)  (Coming soon)
  3. Strategies for Sensory Preferences
  4. Other Strategies for Learning/Information Processing