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
Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, CAC, PMI-ACP, CCPM, RYT I was at a family party several months, ago. It was shortly after several of my siblings, their adult children, and my family had been vaccinated. We had not had a family get together in well over a year and it was nice to finally have the chance
Agility and speed are required strengths when doing projects today as requirements are ever evolving, new opportunities quickly appear with significant first mover advantage, and new innovations emerge that can make the need for a project obsolete before it’s even started. We’ve operated Cheetah in this reality for two decades now and it’s for the
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT Since Cheetah started using Accelerated Learning techniques to help people to pass the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) exam Cheetah FAST in 2001, we’ve gone through seven exam format changes. We are no stranger to PMI changing the PMP exam. This exam change though was different as
In observing what has triggered the two largest violent social unrest events in the past year – I came up with a systems dynamics model about what is driving it and how to predict someone’s probability of participating in violent social unrest. (Certified Cheetah Leaders learn how to assess situations with accelerated learning and systems
