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Work = Life Priorities

Balancing our work and home lives is a challenge that nearly everyone faces. I was a single parent for many years and managed large teams and projects in Fortune 100 companies. It was not always easy. Recently, I was talking to an old friend and former colleague. When we worked together, she did not

4 Dec 2020 · Alan Zucker · 6 min read

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Business Agility: Getting Started

Agile is now part of the general business lexicon. On the news, non-technology leaders keep mentioning the need to be “agile” or “pivot.” Even leaders of traditional industries, like football, use the terminology to describe their approach to their complex business problems.Agile is not magic, nor i

2 Nov 2020 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2020 CANADA AND EVERYONE! STAY STRONG ALWAYS!

Many of us are blessed with many things in our life that we seldom appreciate. Sometimes they are huge and other times they are small. Regardless of magnitude, Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year that serves well as a reminder to be thankful. Appreciate what you come to have and even what…

12 Oct 2020 · Rufran Frago · 1 min read

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Advanced Stakeholder Modeling

No matter your role, you are accountable to someone. As we ascend the organizational ladder, stakeholder management becomes an increasingly more critical skill.Stakeholder management is the ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging the people who are critical to our success.…

4 Oct 2020 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read

Cost Estimating

1. Problem or Opportunity StatementThe PMO has been assigned the supervision of two hospitals, and they have to produce a Class 3 Estimate for the projects as a single estimate, as part of the internal assurance process. As part of a bilateral agreement between two states there is the need to set…

27 Sept 2020 · Danilo Arba · 4 min read

Budgeting Continuous Improvements and Process Estimating

1. Problem or Opportunity StatementA series of blogs in reference to an ongoing PMO set up for a Governmental owner will be posted in the coming days, this to set up all the processes to monitor the construction of two hospitals. Our perspective is from the owner's side, which normally sees…

27 Sept 2020 · Danilo Arba · 4 min read

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WBS Dictionary

Writing the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary must be done right at the beginning of the project planning stages. This article shows how. https://bibloteka.com/how-to-create-a-professional-wbs-dictionary/

24 Sept 2020 · Jaeger Galicha · 1 min read

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Considering How We Think

We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice. Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and understanding our cognitive biases will be essential as

3 Sept 2020 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read

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Considering How We Think

We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice. Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and understanding our cognitive biases will be essential as

3 Sept 2020 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read