Ask Cadence: Ep 63 – No Steering Committee
August 24, 2009
It’s one of the most common things we see on troubled projects, and sometimes the trickiest to navigate: No sponsor or steering committee supporting your projects. This week, Jay Christensen joins Pete Wright to dive into the issues that lead to this on your projects, and how you can find the support you need to get your projects back on track.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 62 – Managing Time on Critical Overlapping projects
August 10, 2009
The problem card this week says it all: “Three project teams working on mandatory compliance projects to 18 countries, all three high priorities. Tasks from all three due all the time. How do I manage projects and priorities across overlapping critical projects?” It’s a question for all over-worked project people, and John Patton and Jay Christensen join Pete Wright to tackle it on the show.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 61 – Too Many External Influences on the Project
August 3, 2009
It may seem like stakeholder meddling, but external influences competing for attention on your project can be a symptom of a much larger problem. This week, John Patton and Jay Christensen help you focus on the lifecycle, using a few key tactics to ensure all your project stakeholders are working with you to keep the project focused — not distracting you from getting your project work done.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 60 – The Supplier Can’t Deliver
July 27, 2009
Any number of challenges can slow a supplier delivering a complex product on your project. From engineering challenges to methodological roadblocks, it’s your job as project manager to keep resources flowing into the project smoothly. This week, John Patton and Jay Christensen dissect this issue and give you a clear process to help keep your external suppliers on track.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 59 – The Project is Off to a Slow Start
July 20, 2009
From the problem cards this week, “The project is off to a slow start — how do we gain traction and get this project moving?” Turns out, it’s all a matter of focus on the life-cycle. This week, John Patton and Jay Christensen take to this issue with Pete Wright and give you a path to a solution that will help you get your project started on the right footing.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 58 – Webinar Preview: Overview of Agile with Jay Christensen
July 13, 2009
Thinking about Agile and how it might help your development projects? Looking for more detail on how the Agile approach maps to the Cadence Methodology? Coming in August, Cadence’s Jay Christensen will be delivering a one-hour webinar dealing with the detail of Agile development with the Cadence Methodology. In today’s show, Jay gives us a preview of his research and teaches us where misunderstanding in the Agile process can lead to poor implementation and sub-par results.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 57 – Positioning Yourself for a Future in Project Management
June 29, 2009
If you’re facing an abrupt career change, you have a wide road before you. You’ve crafted your resume. You’ve done the networking. But have you really positioned yourself to be the perfect candidate for that perfect project management job? This week on the show, Jay Christensen and Wil Mercer join host Pete Wright to talk about how to develop sharp skills and jumpstart your work in project management.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 56 – Weather the Project Economy
June 22, 2009
If your teams have suffered as a result of layoffs or reorganizations, you’re weathering the project economy. If you are juggling scope changes and resource reallocation, you’re weathering the project economy. If you are faced with delivering difficult news more often than results, you’re weathering the project economy. This week, join Jay Christensen, Wil Mercer, and Pete Wright as they discuss the issues facing today’s teams and give you strategies to help you weather the project economy.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 55 – What is Agile PM and how does it map to Cadence?
June 15, 2009
We have been getting this question with great frequency: what is this Agile thing, and how does it map to the Cadence project management methodology? As it happens, Agile maps cleanly to the Cadence Methodology and — if implemented appropriately — can yield benefits on certain projects. Listing to Jay Christensen and Wil Mercer discuss this issue on this week’s show.
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Ask Cadence: Ep 54 – Surviving the PMP Exam
June 8, 2009
Passing the PMP exam and earning the coveted certification that results is becoming increasingly important for project management practitioners. In celebration of our own Wil Mercer’s newly minted PMP, we thought it appropriate to sit down and ask about the process and share some tips and tricks for studying for — and passing — this exam.
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