Hendon Group President and CEO, Ira M. Hendon has been selected by the Project Management Institute as a member of the internal review team for the PMBOK 5th Edition.
Hendon Group President and CEO, Ira M. Hendon has been selected by the Project Management Institute as a member of the internal review team for the PMBOK 5th Edition.
This month's leadership tip stresses the importance of returning phone calls and emails.
This month’s tip is on email etiquette.
Communication plans are a great way to provide your program leadership team with current updates on planned communications activities for a program. Whether a large program or a small project, publishing when meetings will occur, when training sessions will take…
Most people who know me know that I try to ask very good questions…probing questions…questions that try and drive out a good understanding of an issue and its root cause so that it can be solved. So you can imagine…
Portfolio Management January is a common time of year for organizations to establish their discretionary financial plan. One of the challenges with this process is determining how much work can get “crammed” into the financial budget. The discretionary budget is…
There is an old saying, "If you take care of the molehills, the mountains will take care of themselves." Many program and project leaders go into crisis management mode unnecessarily. The reason? Frequently the leadership team, program, or project manager…
Many years ago, when I was a new First Line Manager, a client had a very nasty technical infrastructure problem that required a team of subject matter experts to resolve. During that same time, our company was going through the…
Challenge The Project Management Institute (PMI) publishes A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition. In this guide, Project Scope Management is described as “primarily concerned with defining and controlling what is and is not included…
Background The Project Management Institute’s (PMI) A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition states Project Risk Management includes “the processes concerned with conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, responses, and monitoring and control on a…
