Project Junction

The Democratic National convention kicked off with flurry of lights and celebrity speeches last night at the Pepsi Center in Denver. It reminded me of a scaled down version of the Olympic opening ceremonies with the vast crowd waving mass produced signs and chanting in unison.
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A colleague at work commented, “You are the most efficient project manager I know. You’re always in control.”

He obviously hasn’t seen me walk my dog, Andy. My dog is a pig headed bull terrier that drags me along on his walk every day. I’ve used every PM soft skill technique I know to coax him [...]

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Folks,
If you attended the worldwide conference call last night, I’d appreciate your direct feedback.
+  What went well?
++  What could be improved?
Here’s the slide deck for reference.
Are you a 97 pound PM weakling?
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: softskills leadership)

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Tim Roberts was crowned the 2008 Software Design champion at the TopCoder Open at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas on May 8th. You didn’t see him on the nightly news. He isn’t dating a supermodel. He’s just an unassuming guy who knows how to design and code software.
Tim is the guy [...]

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I’ll be presenting to the PM Lessons Learned community later this month. You are welcome to join.
Presentation:  Are You a 97 pound PM weakling?
Date:  Thursday, August 21st
Time:  9:00 pm EST
Conference dial-in: (269) 320-8300 Access Code: 767 616#
The presentation will be available via replay through September.

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