PM Commentary by Stacy Goff.
Project Managers are the Change Agents who build tomorrow. Why do we say this? Because we can, and we do! This page introduces our ChangeAgents Blog Posts.
What qualifies me to offer these insights? In addition to my consulting firm, I have worked for over 40 years, with our industry’s professional organizations. My purpose for doing so: to create beneficial change–both for their members, and for society. Thus, the wide-ranging set of topics in this blog series.
Key to beneficial societal change are two professional organizations with whom I have engaged:
- IPMA®, the International Project Management Association. This is the world’s first professional association for project managers, and is a federation of national associations; and,
- PMI®, the Project Management Institute. This was originally a USA-based professional association for project managers. Now, they have moved from one exam-based certification in project management, to a wide range of certifications, offered worldwide.
Beyond certifications, our thrust, for over 40 years, is to improve the Competence of Project Managers. This improves their initiatives, their results, their stakeholders’ satisfaction, and their organizations’ success.
Learn more about competence–beyond knowledge and exam cramming–by reading our wide-ranging blog posts and articles. We also suggest that you review the success stories here on our website. Meanwhile, if you have comments about our blog posts, I’d love to hear them! Please use our Contact Us page, to give us your feedback.
This page shows a list, in newest-first sequence, of our ChangeAgent Blog Posts since 2009. Enjoy!
- Introducing A Very Interesting New Book!
- Does Knowledge Want To Be Managed?
- Advantages and Risks for PMs in the Gig Economy
- What Is Project Management?
- PMR Interview: Small Projects
- Everything I Know About Project Time Management, I Learned in Sports Car Racing
- What Makes IPMA’s Certifications Stand Out?
- We Bring Back Our PM Pills!
- You Might Be a Project Manager If…
- Imagine a World Where All Projects Succeed
- Prototyping and Agile: Twins, Separated at Birth?
- Exploding the Myth of PM Best Practices
- My First Project Portfolio
- Learning PM Success Secrets From Product Managers
- It’s More Than Project Take-off and Landing
- Let’s Start at the Start, and Finish at the Finish!
- Are You a PRO or an Amateur?
- Mission Possible
- “It’s a lot more fun when you are up there!”
- Efficiency and Effectiveness in Project Management
- Do Project Managers Need Business Analysts?
- Horse Racing and Project Team Parallels
- Navigating the S’s in Our Projects
- Public Speaking — Without PowerPoint
- Dinner Speech at PMAF Congress, Helsinki, part 2
- Dinner Speech at PMAF Congress, Helsinki, part 1
- The Importance of Eye Contact In Web Meetings
- Project Managers: Playing Nice With Others
- Do You Manage the Leading or Lagging Factors?
- The Importance of Effective Speaking
- Where Did the Term Stakeholder Come From?
- The Importance of Writing Well
- Experiencing Newvember
- Project Management: Delivering The Promise
- Five Foundations for the Advancement of Project Management
- Stakeholders Benefit From a PM Perspective
- The Wonders of the Emperor Qin Project Portfolio
- The Rise of Project Management
- Changing the Way Things Are …
- Applying Our Six W’s For Managers In The Middle
- Knowledge, Performance and the Opposable Thumb
- The First 10% of a Project: 90% of Success, part 4
- The First 10% of a Project: 90% of Success, part 3
- The First 10% of a Project: 90% of Success, part 2
- The First 10% of a Project: 90% of Success, part 1
- A Brilliant IPMA 2010 Congress
- Chilean Mining Rescue Miracle—A Program Success
- Exposing the Myth of “Doing More With Less”
- Change Management: Confusion or Success Factor?
- Exploring Success Factors and Measures; 2 of 2
- Exploring Success Factors and Measures; 1 of 2
- Working Towards PM Perfect, Now and Free
- Is Yours a PM Certification or a Certificate?
- Overcome Executive Grief Over IT and PM
- How I Learned to Balance the Project Vital Signs
- Who Really Manages Your Projects?
- What Got You Here is Wrong for Performing Here!
- Is Project Management Strategic?
- Assess and Maximize PM Performance, part 2
- Assess and Maximize PM Performance, part 1
- The Work To the Left of Proposal, part 2
- The Work To the Left of Proposal, part 1
- Role and Rigor in PM Certifications
- Evaluating Role and Rigor in PM Certifications
- Building the Future of PM
- A Rainbow of Different Purposes for Your PMO
- What Is a PMO, and What Flavor Is Yours?
- Revving Up the Competence Enablers
- Managing Small Projects
- Understanding Change: A Good First Step
- Report: 3rd Annual UT Dallas PM Symposium
- When Does A Project Begin?
- Understanding the Competence Difference
- The Elephant in the Room
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