Project management best practice: The report

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on September 10, 2009 in: Coaching

When you’re putting together a project there will come a time when you need to file a report. But how do you do it… and how do you do it well?
I’m reminded of a story once where I worked on a project (as an employee who participated, not as the project manager). The project manager [...]

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The X factor

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on May 19, 2009 in: Coaching

Remember in high school math class when the teacher would write an equation on the board and then tell us to “solve for X”? To solve for X students would have to work out the entire equation with X to the side and then get to the point where it became obvious.
Example: 2X+6 = 30
(30 [...]

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It’s all about the Love…

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on February 9, 2009 in: Projects

Funny thing is we all have a job… and whether we are landscaping, building a website or filing taxes… the job can get redundant or boring.
However, there are always those projects that are stimulating and exciting – and that is typically when it is all about the love.
Do you love the client?

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Project Management Gone Wrong

Posted by Heather Villa, CMA, MBA, MSM on November 16, 2008 in: Coaching, My Stories

The following are true stories of project management gone terribly wrong. Only the details and the names have been changed to protect the guilty. These stories were collected from colleagues who work on projects in large and small organizations in varying industries.

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