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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 an altimeter as: An altimeter or an altitude meter is an instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level. The measurement of altitude is called altimetry, which is related…
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Do You Need a Compass or a Stopwatch?
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 that there is confusion as to the similarities and differences of a product manager vs a project manager, and when you need one vs the…
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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 have a definitive answer or when I am unsure of something. This reminds me of a joke I heard: I was at a funeral of…
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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 run into people that don’t fully understand the different roles and responsibilities in the marketing department. I heard a clever analogy about promoting a circus,…