Do You Need a Compass or a Stopwatch?
Brian Lau This blog started as a project process commentary from a project manager’s perspective. My experience has included project management, business analyst, and product management. In talking with people, I find…
Brian Lau
Ambiguity Is Not Punny!
My daughter is always clarifying statements and asking questions because she needs things to be unambiguous. I think this is a great trait, except for those times when I don’t…
What is Marketing, Anyway?
The place that I commonly find myself in an organization is the layer between the business and IT teams. When I work with different teams in larger orgs, I often…
Reading the Room
When I was getting into project management, one of my mentors told me the importance of reading the room. She told me, to be a good project manager, I should…
A Crash Course In Project Management
One of the most important attributes of an effective project manager is to constantly check your altimeter. To make sense of this statement, let’s first define an altimeter. Wikipedia defines…
Your Website Doesn’t Define Your Brand
AND IF IT DOES, YOU MIGHT BE DOING IT WRONG. Throughout my career in project management I have worked on all different types of websites. From utilitarian, to marketing brochure…
Why Did We Do This Project In The First Place?
I often find that when you work with a single business stakeholder things can be clean, neat, well thought out and align with the main goals. If everything isn’t dialed…
Data vs Analytics
Do you have an analytics strategy? Analytics can help inform every web project, but only if you know what to look for. There is a huge difference between “analytics” and…
Not so SCRUM-ptious
What project management methodology do you use? I hear a lot of business owners, who are terrible at planning, throw agile around a lot. I have seen companies retool their…
What is a project manager?
I was having dinner with my family a few years back and there were multiple conversations going on. My brother starts talking about a project to his son and says…