Bryan Conway JD, PMP

I take it strong and black, usually something from my Keurig. If you are dumping a ton of stuff into your coffee to make it drinkable, you actually love the additives, not necessarily the coffee!

I found it useful, it is an internationally recognized certification, and immediately opens doors to PM jobs. However, I am a federal government employee, so I was reimbursed for the certification, and my PDUs are provided at no cost to me, so I can’t speak to the monetary worth of it.

I have found that degrees/certifications appeal to those…[Read more]

Almost any non-technical profession can be labeled as “common sense” at the surface level. Finance, accounting, contracting, management, education, etc., all have a large element of common sense. I can balance my own check book and do my own taxes, so why would I ever bother to major in finance or accounting? It’s all common…[Read more]

Daniel,
Admittedly, a portion of my thousands of project management hours that I documented to qualify to sit for the PMP were not necessarily spent engaging in “best practices”! But I would like to think there was continuous improvement that culminated in a stricter adherence to a PMBOK oriented doctrine of PM. I agree, Daniel, it comes from…[Read more]

Among the “common sense” things that PMs do is assist with creating effective charters, complex WBSs, communication plans, building schedules in MS Project updated through PWA, building tasks with appropriate constraints/predecessor-successor relationships/lead-lag-slack, understanding and interpreting the critical path, understanding and…[Read more]

Let’s call it what it is – a symbolic gesture to influence federal employees in a presidential election year!
But I’ll take it and am appreciate of any effort to increase my salary…

Taking a look at the article, AOL still has 3.5 million “dial-up” users, which I believe is the only chargeable service that AOL still has (it has been free to users who already have a broadband connection for several years). It seems like on dial-up you would have to go to a mobile website to get any sort of performance at all, and even then,…[Read more]

I’ll take a look, thank you!

Mihail,

Thank you so much for this outstanding reply! I appreciate the time that it took,it really provides me with some excellent ideas.

Using peer pressure as an excuse for doing something negative didn’t fly with my parents when I was 7, and it certainly doesn’t influence me as an adult! I can’t believe that a person would respond to efforts to undermine healthy habits. I would minimize my social interactions with these people.

This is a tricky one! I like for onsite people to know I’m out of the office, so they won’t waste their time trying to visit me in person or expect my attendance at a last minute meeting. If I don’t immediately respond to an email (if I’m currently in a teleconference, at lunch, etc.), not knowing that I’m out of the office could inconvenience…[Read more]

Jaime,
I don’t think it is necessarily a problem of “missing the point of EVM at the project manager/scheduler level. The issue is about effectively communicating results to the senior executive sponsors and customers, most of whom have very little PM knowledge.
The data must be delivered in a common format, which is the “red/yellow/green” tiered…[Read more]