PMP Leadership, Teams & Stakeholders Articles

Articles

Andre Malowney writing at a desk, working through project management reference texts and printed process diagrams

Practical thinking for project professionals

Articles on project delivery, governance, risk, predictive, Agile and hybrid practice, alongside a growing PMP® knowledge library for professionals preparing for the current exam.

End Users Are Stakeholders Too

End users hold no formal authority over a project and decide entirely whether its output gets used. Being represented by somebody senior is not the same as being asked.

Where Expertise Ends and Leadership Begins

A project manager who knows the subject has an advantage and a trap. The advantage is better questions. The trap is answering them before anybody else gets the chance.

Lead the Team: How to Improve Performance Without Command and Control

Monitoring resourcing is not timesheet policing. It is noticing early that the plan's assumptions about availability have quietly stopped being true.

Plan Resource Management Before Fighting Over People

The rules for getting, directing and releasing people are easy to agree before anybody wants anything, and almost impossible to agree during the week two projects need the same person.

Tailoring Resource Management for Agile and Hybrid Teams

Adaptive work changes how people are planned and leaves physical resources exactly where they were. Most hybrid resourcing trouble comes from tailoring both the same way.

Team Agreements: Small Document, Large Effect

A page of specific behaviours, written by the people who will follow them, settles more disagreements than any amount of process. The value is in the specificity.