Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT In the last blog post, I talked about the importance of having the right project management process, then the right people for creating sustainable results with your projects. There is another element that can make completing your projects much easier – it’s right timing. There are two levels […]
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT In many organizations, Project Managers do not have much say in the people available to work on their projects and must follow project management processes dictated by their organization. Often they neither have the right people nor the right process to generate good results with their projects. This
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT What I love about the Cheetah Agile Project approach is the focus on only one project for two weeks. It allows me to say “no” to taking on more “opportunities” than any human could possibly handle. What I find happens in those times where there are people clamoring
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT Much can happen in two weeks. Think back two weeks ago. Did you know you would be where you are doing what you are doing right now? For many of us, that answer is a solid NO. Two weeks ago, I was embarking on a goal to blog
Sometimes it seems like project managers can make things a lot more complicated than it needs to be for doing projects. It’s one of the reasons I was so attracted to Agile Project Management in the early days about 15 years ago. But anymore, even with something that used to be simple like Agile, there
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT My friends tease me saying “You are a dyslexic snow bird as you prefer being in Alaska in the winter and Arizona in the summer. I joke back “it’s because I find balance being in the extremes.” I like living this way because I get to exercise my project management
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT Yesterday I got one of those standard emails from 23 and me telling me I had new DNA relatives. Usually I ignore them, having tired of learning of new third and fourth cousins a while ago. But this time, I opened it and clicked on the link, to
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT I’m a huge fan of the BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) as I have always figured shoot for the stars and you may just end up on the moon. HOWEVER, BHAGs come with a demoralizing element, especially when there is no clear path from how to get from
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT I watch in fascination the antics of some of the more high profile billionaires of our times, and the response in the twittersphere to it all. But are any of us really all that different than these high profile money’d celebrities? The reality is we each have 86,400
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT A good friend who has helped me in Cheetah since its get go, also had her last child the first year of Cheetah. This child is now 21 years old. There are fewer than ten people I’ve been a part of their life since their start, and this
