How to Earn Professional Development Units
In this post, we’ll review the requirements for earning PDUs towards your PMP and share some strategies for racking them up.
50 Interview Questions for Program Managers
If you’re itching to join the Great Resignation before it’s too late, you’re probably finding yourself wondering what the heck employers even ask in an interview these days. Read on for best practices plus my list of the top 50 interview questions that program managers should prepare to answer.
Product Review: WorkBoard
Public service announcement: we’re halfway through the year (!), which means you’ve got about six months to dust off your goals and rightsize and refresh your OKRs for Q3. If you’re thinking about using a software solution for OKR management, WorkBoard is a potential option.
The Pitch for Program Management
To prepare for our future, program managers need to educate a generation of executives who didn’t grow up in a waterfall world on the benefits of our role. This is where the pitch for program management comes in.
Remote is Work: Tips on Setting Up Your Organization for Success
In this post, I’ll share some ideas for how you can structure remote work to set up your organization for success. TLDR; communication is critical.
How to Craft a 30-60-90 Day Plan
This blog post will explain how to craft a 30-60-90 day plan as a way to align with your stakeholders on expected scope, measure outcomes, and stay accountable to your stated goals.
The Case for Writing a User Manual
In a prior blog post on how to deal with a difficult sponsor, I mentioned that I had created a user manual. But, I did not explicitly address what a user manual is, why a user manual is beneficial, and how to create one. We’ll dive into these topics in this blog post.
Remote Work Reflections
What I originally envisioned as a 3-6 month vacation from the office would evolve into the default modus operandi for many knowledge workers, myself included, for nearly two years and counting. My thinking on remote work evolved and continues to evolve as I gain more experience. These are my learnings.
Product Review: Time is Limited
Time is Limited has a mission to measure organizations’ productivity data, with the goal of identifying inefficiencies that encourage leadership to make improvements. But how this does work exactly? What data do they measure? How do they safeguard employee data considering potential privacy concerns?
How to Tell Your Team You’re Leaving
Being straightforward is especially critical when breaking bad news. This includes sharing that someone is leaving the team. Here are some tips for how to break the news of an employee departure.
Generation Next
The consequences of cultivating a culture of transparency are that, sometimes, the things that come out of your employees’ mouths are going to strike you as ridiculous at best or downright insolent at worst. If you truly wish to practice radical candor with your employees, then you’re a hypocrite if you dish it out but can’t take it.
Product Review: Fellow
I have high standards for when you should have a meeting in the first place and how to run meetings effectively. I love Fellow’s mission to disseminate this knowledge to your colleagues by making it easy to create meeting agendas in a collaborative manner, record decisions, and track action items.