Project Management

High-speed, high-capacity internet in every county in Kentucky The Commonwealth of Kentucky is building a new broadband information highway (or I-Way) with off-ramps into every county in the state. When complete, KentuckyWired will be approximately 3,400 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure known...Read More >

What makes projects successful? There are a lot of factors, but one that's overlooked (and often hoped for) is luck.  Thomas Jefferson famously said, "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." In my experience, when we focus on three things at the...Read More >

 Are you familiar with these classic moments in any poorly managed projects?     Wild Enthusiasm! (Yay!) Growing Disillusionment (Wow, that was fast!) Chaos (What’s going on?) Search for the Guilty (Hide!) Punishment of the Innocent (It wasn’t my idea!) Promotion of the Non-Participants (I...Read More >

Ever heard of the Canadarm 2? The Canadarm 2 is a remote-controlled robotic arm attached to the international space station. Named for the country who constructed it, the giant appendage was instrumental in the construction of mankind’s football-field-sized “home” in space...Read More >

The project manager and sponsor are the ultimate power couple and are stronger together than apart. Sponsors and project managers are liaisons between two groups: the business stakeholders and the project team. The sponsor and project manager hold the project family together...Read More >

What motivates today's knowledge workers? Traditional approaches involve offering financial rewards (i.e., pay raise) for good performance. They also involve using threats of punishment (i.e., dismissal) for bad performance. But do these traditional approaches still apply? The PMBoK® Guide states that "Managing the project team requires a variety of management skills...Read More >