Eric Verzuh

“When we talk about courage, we think it’s going against an enemy with a machine gun. The real courage is seeing the truth and speaking the truth to each other.” […]

The Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam has changed several times in the past twenty-five years, and it is making another – far more dramatic – change soon. Anyone who has […]

“Light.” “Easier.” “Less clumsy.” “Lighter.” These are the words and phrases I hear most often from our customers when they talk about Microsoft Project. They want an easy-to-use scheduling tool, […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Overview:  Training on technology accelerates learning and adoption. […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Business Acumen category of the Talent Triangle. Overview:  Training on technology accelerates learning and […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Overview:  Training on technology accelerates learning and […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Overview:  Training on technology accelerates learning and […]

A large company decided to reward project managers and team members based on performance. Sounds good, right? Tie people’s pay to the outcome of a program or project. Success leads […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description:Many organizations already own Microsoft Project and SharePoint […]

Have you read Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? This blockbuster book has transformed millions of lives. A critical component of the message is habit. Regularly repeated behavior. […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, guided by the belief that every life has equal value, works with partners around the globe in the areas of health, education and poverty. […]

What happens when we try to juggle too many projects? Gridlock. Too many of us experience it on the freeway every day. My car has a speedometer that reads 120 […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, […]

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description:  Many organizations have […]

One reason to like project management is that it works.  Most of the techniques you find in books and classes have been around for decades and their value is proven. So […]

  The top two stories in the news last week were eerily similar. Sequestration cuts $85 billion from the Federal budget in seven months. Yahoo! ends telecommuting in June in […]

What is it about information technology projects? Since Gartner highlighted project management as a critical success factor for information technology (IT) projects in ’95, we’ve seen a flood of training, […]

If you are new to agile and want to understand what all the buzz is about, start by separating agile project management techniques from agile software development methods. Why the […]

Finish-to-Start Relationships The finish-to-start relationship states that one task must be completed before its successor task can begin. The network diagrams in this chapter all follow this simple assumption because […]

The biggest decision in the life of a project is the original commitment to pursue the project. It sets the goal and begins a series of events that could last […]

“Let’s not try to solve world hunger” is an oft-used warning about scope creep. Don’t tell World Vision, Oxfam, Inter-America Development Bank, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, and the hundreds of […]

Projects fulfill a number of purposes within an organization. The categories within a portfolio make clear which purposes the projects serve. Examples include mandatory growth, cost-cutting, and sustaining projects. For […]