Everyday Project Management

Projects come in all sizes and forms, but sometimes a project experience can be a complete nightmare. How can we prevent reruns of horror movie projects?  One of the best ways to avoid PM Horror is to learn from others past mistakes, so that we can pull from a collective lessons learned and increase our chances of having a successful project and avoiding common (or not so common) pitfalls that can lead to project disaster.

To help celebrate Alfred Hitchcock Day, which is this Friday, March 12th, we at Cheetah Learning are taking a collection of PM Horror Stories. If you have a PM Horror story that you would like to share, please go to our PM Horror page to find out how you can participate. Just by entering your story, you will automatically receive 5% off all Cheetah courses or Certificate Programs.  You will also be entered to win free PDU courses. We will post the stories (only the stories of the people who AGREE to share on this blog) here on www.everydaypm.com to increase the project management communities collective lessons learned.

Cheetah Learning would like to wish you a PM Horror Free Day!

Thanks for reading,

Kristen

Thank You Clarence Williams, PMP for posting the Best PMP Certification Prep Utube Video on your blog.

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Cheetah Tip to Keep You Tops, Feb. 15, 2010. Today we experience the same amount of technological change every 18 months that our great grandparents experienced every 50 years. To succeed, you must complete your projects fast – especially ones that require some element of technology. At Cheetah, we combined accelerated learning concepts with Project Management to complete projects in three months.

Cheetah Tip to Keep You Tops, Feb. 14, 2010. Celebrate how much love there is in your life today. Start with yourself. Identify all the things you love about being you. Then move out from there. Name what you love about the people around you, the community you live in, your career, your country, your planet. Feel the love and feel your whole self lighten up. Happy Valentine’s day.

Cheetah Tip to Keep You Tops Feb. 13, 2010 On the day before Valentine’s day, a good saying to remember is Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. If you’re in a relationship, hoping to be in a relationship with someone, or just want to let someone else know that you care about them, put a little thought into how you’re going to show that on Valentine’s day. Effort does count here.

Cheetah Tip to Keep You Tops, Feb. 12, 2010 - As you go through life, you will lose people who meant a lot to you (good friends move, relationships break up, people pass away, etc). It’s just inevitable. One way to learn from the loss (and to help you cope with it) is to figure out what you liked best about that person and make it a part of you.

Last night I ran into a Facebook refusenik. I can’t say I blame her. With news reports of people losing their job or not getting hired for a job because of what some employer finds out about them on facebook - yeah - why risk it? And she was also lamenting how I have been neglecting my blog since I started the Cheetah Learning Facebook Fan Club.

So Facebook rebel - this is for you. I’m going to post the daily Cheetah Tips to Keep You Tops here.

Cheetah Learning Cheetah Tip to Keep You Tops Feb. 11, 2010 Take time everyday to celebrate your life. Yes there are all types of scary things in the world that need our attention. It’s hard not to notice ribbons of hope for a better future from this and that adorning the back of people’s cars. The reality is that none of us get out of here alive. Enjoy what you have today. Learn and laugh. Live the life that is right for you.

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Blue Moon Rising at Dusk - 3:16 PM Alaska Time.

I am still in Alaska, enjoying the dark, ice skating to town, and risking future mobility everytime I step out the door.    I am happy to report the dog has recovered from DID or could it be that others in the house have adopted my more pleasant view of reality and we are no longer collectively manifesting DID?   As I have had ample time sitting in the dark to contemplate whether the ocean near me is an illusion that we have all agreed is real or really is real, I did observe something rather spectacular -   the full moon rising above the magnificent mountains on two crystal clear nights.   Now two full moons in one month is rare enough to have it’s own name - a blue moon.  What is even more rare, is that there were two cloudless nights in southeast Alaska where I could see the full moon rising over the mountains at sunset.   What is even more amazing, is I was here to observe it and it happened on New Year’s Eve.   In my reality, I am taking this as a sign from the universe that 2010 is going to be one heck of a year.   I am starting the new year by heading to Hawaii for a corporate retreat.   I figure if we’re going to do strategic planning, it may as well be somewhere coool (I mean warm).   But I rented a house near the rainy side of the Island (it was a bargain).   Stay tuned.