Project managers (PM) are naturally considered leaders since they claim near total responsibility for their projects. Though they do not manage the resources in some occasions, still they are project leaders. One cannot take both management and  leadership as the same thing. Yukl defines the terms leader, manager and boss to specify people who play [...]

Strong matrix organizations were unheard of earlier than the 1970’s, as almost every large business operated in a functional organizational structure according to a "silo" model.   In this older structure, workers functioned in isolated groupings, subordinate to functional managers.  Picture, if you will, multiple columns drawn on a page; each column representation is led by [...]

Project Management World Today has an great article in the PM Tips section called : Procrastination – Detection and Avoidance. This paper provides interesting insight into the causes and impacts of procrastination on projects.  Most importantly, it take a look at how project managers as leaders can prevent procrastination in the first place..
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A project manager, quite simply defined, is an individual who is responsible for the entire project. He or she is not responsible for completing every task. Indeed, it is unlikely that the manager would even have every skill needed to complete all the work. He or she is simply the final decision maker. This [...]

Danielle Baker had an interesting post over on PMHut about Project Management vs. ITIL release management.
It seems that quite a few people are confused by the distinction. In fact, I’ve even noticed that senior IT managers don’t understand the difference between implementing a PMO, an SDLC, or implementing ITIL. I guess most C-Level’s just want [...]