THIS WEEK’S FOCUS We focus on the core factors that make for successful projects. Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. I often think about the number one cause of burnout, in the profession with the highest rates (and no, this isn’t a joke about firefighters or

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS This week, our last on the focus of project management foundations: Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. If you’ve ever felt like leading a project is isolating, pressure, with little safety net, you’re not alone. Here’s an insight I learned 10 years ago,

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS This week in our focus on project management foundations: Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. If you search “best project management books,” you’ll get thousands of options. Here’s my take, five resources I think anyone leading a project or big change should now.

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS Continuing our focus on project management foundations: Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. “How do I become a project manager?” When I started out, I thought training was the main answer. I started with a foundation course (APM) that went into leadership and

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. Search online and you’ll find polished definitions of project management from PMI, APM, US and UK government handbooks. They talk about “applying skills, knowledge, tools, and techniques to deliver within time, cost, and quality.” Useful? Yes. Complete?

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS Welcome to Success Factors Discovery, your weekly email for enjoying projects + delivering with confidence. Hello When we talked last week about the Resource & Leadership Gap, I mentioned how under-resourcing doesn’t just slow delivery, it takes the happiness out of the people overseeing the work. If you’ve been in that situation,

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THIS WEEK’S FOCUS Hello Imagine this: The Problem in stats: You’re not alone. The Resource & Leadership Gap is real: This mismatch slows delivery and kills your motivation and for many (50%) of PMs, is the key contributor to burnout. Why it matters: Most executives haven’t been a PM or managed a PM team. They

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