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Alicia Trelles-Duckett

Alicia Trelles-Duckett’s posts

Successful Strategies for Global Projects

No doubt installations in other geographies come with their own inherent set of challenges. Currency…

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‘Fusion’ Project Management

Fusion. It’s all the rage in culinary circles, right? Restaurants that prepare great dishes from…

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How to Manage Your Time as a Project Manager, by Andy Trainer

Guest Post by Andy Trainer, from Silicon Beach Training Project managers need a great deal…

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About Project Quality

Most people involved in projects agree that it’s a good idea to monitor the quality…

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Are We All Here?

Two years ago I was deploying a high-technology project for a client. It was a…

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So Are We Doing This?

I was recently teaching a course where the discussion turned to project resourcing, and the…

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Avoid That Creep

Our topic today has nothing to do with an eccentric or detestable person, happily. Although…

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Five Techniques So You Don’t Have To Be There

Here is a familiar scenario for some of us who perform projects for customers: a…

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Project Success for the Small Business

There are certain skills which are incredibly useful for small businesses. If the business has…

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Does It Have To Be So Hard?

Recently, an acquaintance who owns his own business installing industrial valves, remarked how difficult he…

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Are Sub-Contractors Good Or Bad?

When I started my working life, at IBM, years went by before I had any…

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Guest Post: How Project Managers Can Manage Conflict

The following is a guest post by Susan Shearouse, author of Conflict 101. Early morning,…

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Who’s The Boss?

In this blog we talk mostly about project managers and how they can steer the…

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Risky Business

As a general rule, project teams will agree with the idea that Risk Analysis makes…

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If It’s Important, Less Is More

There will be milestones in our projects –or initiatives- that are important because they determine…

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Successful International Projects

Your next project involves implementations here as well as in other countries. Are congratulations in…

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