Thomas Juli
Winners of book drawing announced
On February 11, 2011 PM Forum held a random drawing for a free copy of my book, Leadership Principles for Project Success, published last year by CRC Press in the United States. There were a total of 613 registrations from 78 countries. Congratulations to the…
Creating high-performance contexts for teams
According to Charles J. Pellerin high-performance contexts for teams have the following characteristics: Mutual respect, people feel valued Reality-based optimism, commitment People feel included, trustworthy Clear organization, accountability In his book How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams….
Learning from Egypt: A Lesson in Leadership
History is in the making when you look to Egypt these days. It is fascinating and scaring at the same time watching the Egyptian people demonstrating against the Mubarak regime, demanding „their“ leader to step down. – This is not the place to comment on…
What is the key to effective project management and project success?
We all need and thrive for successful projects. But what does it take to get there? There is no doubt that good project management is a critical success factor. But is it really sufficient? I don’t think so. Instead, effective project management needs to have…
Dogmatic Scrum: an end to Agile?
I consider myself a proponent of agile methologies (such as Scrum) and agile project management. I support and live Agile not because it is a fad but because I believe it is the right approach to running projects and develop products, especially when we are…
Follow-up on leadership seminar
On Feb 21, 2011 I conducted a one-day workshop „Leadership Principles for Project Success“ in Frankfurt, Germany. It was a wonderful learning experience. Given the highly interactive character of this workshop all participants could learn a lot about the various aspects of leadership and how…
The „Top 3“ of status reports
As managers or project managers we regularly prepare so-called status reports. It is supposed to be a summary of the events, accomplishments, issues and upcoming milestones. In my experience in project management I have seen numerous formats of status reports. In many, too many cases…
Work environment: It’s your own choice
Our work environments have a huge impact on our contributions, how they are perceived and valued, and how we feel. This is not a new insight. And yet often I hear that we cannot really change our own work environments, that they are predefined and/or…
Upcoming Workshop: Leadership Principles for Project Success
On January 21, 2010 I will conduct a workshop „Leadership Principles for Project Success“ in Frankfurt, Germany. It is an official PMI sanctioned workshop. As such you can earn 6 PDUs by attending this workshop. Workshop language will be German. The workshop will cover all…
Successful New Year’s Resolution
Once every year there are thousands and thousands of people who sense the urge to come up with resolutions for the new year. This is good. It shows that people are willing to change something for the better. I wonder though how many of these…