Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager November 16, 2020 Today’s organizations are faced with the biggest crisis that has ever jeopardized Project Management and Organizational Change.  The world came to a grinding halt with little warning and no rulebook on how to deal with it.  COVID 19 is a crisis that has seriously impacted both our work and personal lives as …

Marianne Hang February 4, 2020 The concept of high performance and supporting high performers is increasingly relevant in the workplace as we look for efficiency, synergy, ethics, and all the power skills needed to build and maintain high performance at both the macro organizational level and the micro project level. Soft skills such as ethics, empathy, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager March 25, 2019 The recent economic slump has transformed many once-confident clients into clients who are now unsure of their requirements, slow to move forward with projects, and prone to delays even once a project is active.  I call these clients “skittish” because while they have the best intentions, you can never be sure what …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager December 5, 2018 In Part I of this article When Project Management Requires Change Management – Part I , I introduced the fact that projects are increasingly being viewed as OCM focused. This means that the need for organizational change management skills on the part of the Project Manager, as well as their trusted IT …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager November 25, 2018 “This is an OCM project” is an observation that is regularly directed at me as the Project Manager in charge. It’s somewhat of a surprise because traditionally the perceived value of organizational change management deliverables within projects has been downplayed. Often relegated to the soft skills category and seen as providing less …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager October 21, 2018 Managing a Shitstorm Have you ever had a project turn into a shitstorm, with no option but to manage your way out of it?  The term “shitstorm” is an actual business term defined in Wikipedia as “a situation marked by violent controversy.  I’m sure we’ve all been in a shitstorm and we …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager August 07, 2018 Taking it Home In Part 2 of this blog series, I recommended three key project management documents that are important to build and present early on in a project where there is no project management framework. Now you’re a month or two in and you’ve got some solid documentation in place to …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager July 30, 2018 Now For Some Quick Wins In Part 1 of this blog series, I introduced a scenario of landing in a project management role where there is no project management framework. The first steps we talked about to help survive and thrive in such a situation were reviewing documentation and building working relationships. …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager July 23, 2018 So you’ve been asked to manage a project – but there’s no framework to do that, no PMO in sight, and your client thinks they know what project management is, except they don’t. If you’re lucky, your client is aware of these gaps and knows exactly what a heavy lift they’re asking …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager April 11, 2018 How can a project go from start to finish, and then find itself unprepared when it comes time to hand off the new system to Operations? This happens a lot more often than you’d think so I thought I’d offer some pointers on how to successfully transition a project to Operations. As …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager March 29, 2018   As a newcomer to project management in the early days, there was no set project management methodology. Projects either worked or they didn’t – we either completed them successfully or we abandoned them. Over the years, we learned and developed a set of best practices we could count on to help …

Marianne Hang, Senior Project Manager March 23, 2018 What does a Project Manager who has been in the business for 25 years say about architecture and how it saved my life on more than a few occasions? I’ve seen it all, everything from pure project management using waterfall methodology to agile methodology to hybrid methodologies. I’ve covered all strains of …