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Dian Schaffhauser

Dian Schaffhauser is MPUG's editor. She's been covering project management, business transformation and topics technical as a journalist and editor since IBM released its first PC. She invites you to send your best story ideas for MPUG to her at editor@mpug.com. She promises to let you know what she really thinks.

Articles by Dian Schaffhauser(10 posts)

Survey: Reporting Bad News about Projects
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Survey: Reporting Bad News about Projects

Bad news with projects abounds. More than nine in 10 project managers (94 percent) have had to deliver bad news to managers or executives in the la

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May 30, 2017
Survey: PMOs Have Room for Improvement
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Survey: PMOs Have Room for Improvement

Project management offices are there to take on the big project work within an organization. For example, the most important job for the PMO is to

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April 10, 2017
Scheduling Master Tom Henry on Why We Shouldn’t Run Projects in Our Heads
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Scheduling Master Tom Henry on Why We Shouldn’t Run Projects in Our Heads

Tom Henry a senior consultant at Campana & Schott, spends his weeks implementing enterprise project management systems for clients in multiple

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February 19, 2016
How Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Get You Over the Project Wall: An Interview with Ken Winell
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How Enterprise Social Collaboration Can Get You Over the Project Wall: An Interview with Ken Winell

Last October, a few months after Ken Winell had joined Tough Mudder as vice president of technology, he found himself wading through the mud, riski

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February 16, 2016
Ben Howard on Managing New Product Development
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Ben Howard on Managing New Product Development

Ben Howard has spent a career in implementing complex enterprise solutions for organizations around the world, earning him his Most Valuable Profes

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February 16, 2016
Steven Squyres Doesn’t Mind Failure: An Interview with the Scientist behind the Mars Rovers
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Steven Squyres Doesn’t Mind Failure: An Interview with the Scientist behind the Mars Rovers

Even if you don’t know who Steven Squyres is, you know about his work. Currently a member of the physical sciences faculty at Cornell Univers

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February 9, 2016
Get Your Project Back on Track
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Get Your Project Back on Track

Mitzi, a portfolio manager with a regional insurance provider, was sent into a project that had been underway for a couple of years. “It was

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January 12, 2016
Ernst & Young Buys UMT Consulting
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Ernst & Young Buys UMT Consulting

Project and portfolio management consultancy UMT has been acquired by Ernst & Young in the United States. The smaller firm, which has offices i

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January 11, 2016
Doing Good with Project Management
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Doing Good with Project Management

When Gary Chefetz, head of MSProjectExperts, moved to Coachella Valley in Southern California’s Riverside County, he sought to give back to h

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December 23, 2015
10 Best-read MPUG Articles of 2015
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10 Best-read MPUG Articles of 2015

Which of these stories have you missed in the past 12 months? Start the countdown… 10. Communication: 5 Ways to Improve Your Project’s

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December 22, 2015