The human side of work

Project Management

For a long time, I didn’t think of myself as a project manager. I was working in start-ups and agencies, first as

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I’m working with a team right now who are dealing with a couple of client situations that are...rough. These are the kind

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Yesterday was Sunday, and it started snowing. A lot. We knew it was coming. Schools were already being called off on Friday, so the

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I was talking to a friend recently about the work I've been doing lately—specifically, my focus on writing about human-centered

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There’s a moment in every project where you realize the plan isn’t going to save you. Everything has been approved. The timeline

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The client yelled at me. Not in a cartoonish way, not flipping a table, but in that very real, very adult way where you

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I didn’t enter project management through a formal path. I wasn’t trained for it at the beginning. I didn’t start with

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There is an entire layer of project management that never makes it into a job description. Certifications or frameworks do not capture it, and

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I recently worked with a team that couldn’t seem to deliver projects on time or within budget. They were smart people with clear

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