5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 4)

Andrew Filev , Friday, April 30, 2010 comment Comments (14)
Mistake #4: Turning from a project leader into a project secretary

Now, if you want to get the up-to-date information (winning strategy #2) all in one place (winning strategy #3), you are prone to mistake#4: turning into a robot, constantly copying information back and forth.
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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1)

Andrew Filev , Monday, March 22, 2010 comment Comments (7)
Have you ever wondered why some managers seem to be natural born multitaskers and run 10+ projects smoothly, when others seem to be having a hard time running multiple projects? Leading a company that offers one of the most popular project management software products on the market, I hear a lot of project management war stories and spend a lot of time analyzing the bottlenecks in project management and various ways to overcome them. During my analysis, I thought it would be a good idea to share those war stories with you to help you improve your management skills. So I’ve come up with a list of the 5 most common mistakes managers make when managing multiple projects. In addition, I accompanied them with the 5 strategies that will help you become a more productive project manager who can easily complete several projects on time and on budget. I also decided to split the list into five shorter parts, so that it would be more convenient for you to read. Here’s the first part of this series.

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The Rules of the Project: Two Strategies for Aligning Means

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, January 20, 2010 comment Comments (3)
This is a guest post by Bas de Baar, the author of Project Shrink. This article originally appeared on his blog. The ideas of this post are aligned with my personal philosophy in many ways, so I felt that you would benefit from reading it here, on the Project Management 2.0 blog.

Aligning the means between individuals, project and organization is a Herculean task for any Project Leader. The means are the rules of the project. The way things are done.

Following are two strategies that can be used to align means. To provide you with some ideas. To start the discussion.
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Project Management 2.0: New Definition

Andrew Filev , Sunday, November 22, 2009 comment Comments (17)
My work on several previous posts, where I tried to dig into the nature and highlight the key differentiators of Project Management 2.0, pushed me to create a fresh updated version of the definition for this new phenomenon.
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Why Project Management 2.0 Is a Different Ball Game

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, November 04, 2009 comment Comments (42)
At the PMI Global Congress that I attended in October, I met many project management practitioners. Some of them asked me about my views on Project Management 2.0. One of the questions was “How is Project Management 2.0  different from what many organizations have today?”

I decided to summarize my answers and came up with a short list of key factors that distinguish Project Management 2.0 from traditional project management.
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Andrew Filev is an experienced project manager and a successful entrepreneur. He has been managing software teams since 2001 with the help of new-generation collaboration and management applications. The Project Management 2.0 blog reflects his views on changes going on in contemporary project management, thanks to the influence of collaborative web-based technologies. More >>

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