Project Management

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 >

Once Upon a Time... ...there were business leaders all over the world who thought they understood Agile. Alas, they were wrong. They were convinced Agile was the solution to all the woes of their kingdom, or company, as it were. Alas, they were wrong about that, too. And they truly believed they...Read More >

Have you heard of the Camino de Santiago , also known as the Way of St. James ? It’s a network of ancient pilgrim routes across Europe to the tomb of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. People walk for a month or more from the Pyrenees in France through Spain’s northern Basque country...Read More >

'Twas the night before Christmas and way across town, The overworked project manager's face had a frown, "I'm scared, and I'm lonely, and all out of time, my sponsor won't help me, won't send me a dime. I need so much help and I need it so fast,  but I have no mentor, no mentor, alas."   He...Read More >