In today’s workplace, lots of us are project managers, even if we don’t have that specific title. Our jobs often include balancing budgets and schedules with work that has to be done to achieve a specific outcome. That’s more or less the definition of project management. A natural question to...Read More >

Submitted by: Anita Marshall, P.E., PMP ® , Principal Civil Engineer, Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) I currently work at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) in the Materials section. I formerly worked in the Highway Design section at RIDOT and have been a...Read More >

I’m the office manager and bookkeeper at Solarity. And while I know they love me, there was a time a few years ago when I felt a bit like a gosling in a duck pond. See, all of my project manager colleagues were throwing around words and phrases I just didn’t get. Things like project charter. A...Read More >

Hi, my name is Cole and I failed my PMP Exam. In my defense, it was the first time I took it, and it’s a difficult test. PMI doesn’t publish the pass/fail numbers, but anecdotally, word on the street is at least 40-50% of candidates don’t pass on the first try. Also in my defense, I had to...Read More >

Okay, if you’ve read part one of our security tips, you’ve got your password manager in place, your employees understand passwords vs. passphrases, and your multi factor authentication is cheerfully showing anyone to the door who wasn’t invited to the party.   But  you’re  not out of pro...Read More >

Working from home. To some it’s paradise. To others it’s a struggle. To security professionals (that’s us), it’s the wild, wild West. Without the robust infrastructure of a wired office building with firewalls and other built-in security measures, your employees, your data and your...Read More >