Introducing Michael ZipurskyThe Lucid Meetings team is delighted to welcome our newest contributor, Michael Zipursky. Our CEO met Michael when she was interviewed for his Consulting Success podcast. After the interview, Michael shared how implementing the simple...
We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience. John Dewey These meetings go by many names – postmortems, retrospectives, after-action reviews, wrap-ups, project “success” meetings. Regardless of what you call them, they...
The economy hasn’t completely turned around yet, but it is getting better. Unemployment rates are slowly going down, foreclosures are dropping, and house values are finally going up again. But it still isn’t easy to find a...
Have you ever had a project client come to you and say, “Can we implement this a month sooner than we originally planned?” No, that never happens…right? As a technical project manager, if something similar hasn’t already...
Performance, performance, performance. Doing more with less. Making the most of what you are given. Meeting the needs of the project customer head-on. Are you and your team doing these things every day on your project? Your competition is, so...
You can look at project success from many angles and probably come up with a dozen different ways to measure it. However, there are really three main keys to project success: on time delivery on budget delivery,...
Meetings come 3 general forms: The traditional face-to-face meeting conference calls, and video conference calls There are probably some variations you can think of on these three based on different technology, but this about covers it. Now,...
How we begin matters. In the life of every project there is a time before, when the project exists as a possibility. From this possibility, we craft our intentions for the project. We envision what could be,...
Do you tend to manage projects loosely, or do you develop detailed project plans with pages of fancy Gantt charts? Either way, there’s one strategy you should always consider: a plan to communicate. Communication is simply defined as...
