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Preliminary results of my online survey of team-involvement and project re-alignment are available on the “Surveys” tab or at http://tinyurl.com/tjep-surveyblog.
The survey will run for another 2 weeks.  Please share the url to the survey with your friends and peers:  http://tinyurl.com/tjep-teambuilding.  The more people participate the greater the value of the survey results.

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The PMI Global Congress EMEA was held in Amsterdam May 18-20, 2009.  Once again it was an excellent conference on all kinds of topics of project management.  Attendants could pick from more than 70 sessions.
There was no lack of innovative and thought provoking topics such as agile projects or applying insights of systems,  complexity or [...]

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We are being taught that compromising is a good thing, rather than fighting for one position over another.  But is this always true?  I claim that in a situation of an ailing project, compromising paves the way to mediocrity if not even doom.
Take the following project example:  The scope and the project deadline were in [...]

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There are countless books on project management available these days.   How do you pick the right one to start with?  At the end of the day it is your call.  Still, I can recommend the following books:
Eric Verzuh:  The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is designed as an [...]

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The next PMI Global Congress EMEA held in Amsterdam May 18-20, 2009 is approaching.  This year I will be conducting two 3-hour workshops on project recovery.  The workshop is entitled, “Yes We Can: Team-Building as a Means to Re-Align a Project.”
Project recovery missions are probably one of the most difficult challenges a project manager may [...]

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