Fixing Projects is a blog that premiered in May 2010 under the direction of Carol Long, CEO for Three Triangles Performance Ltd. Carol has experience as a programme and project manager, interim manager and consultant in high-tech, public and not-for-profit sectors. She specialises in assisting senior management get value from their project, and also has an expertise in project rescue.

It is the notion of rescuing projects that drives Fixing Projects posts.

“I’m motivated to post by a desire to stop projects failing – I have some insights and experience to share that might help and look for comments and ideas from other managers,” Carol says. “I hate to see the results of failed projects: wasted talent and resources, the demotivated teams, the stakeholders failed.

“If I can reduce the failures by sharing what I see and do in a few organisations with managers and executives around the world, then I will have done something worthwhile.”

The insights and tips from Carol’s experience shine through in Fixing Projects, which usually provides a single post a week (though more are available in other weeks).

“Programme and project management is more than following a method: it is running a temporary organisation with an objective to bring change,” she says. “This blog gives insights, experience and hints to senior managers and project managers to help them improve their project portfolio, programmes and projects. There are tips for PMO, quality and risk managers, too.

“We bring experience, insights and techniques to Boards so their organisation chooses an effective and balanced portfolio of programmes and projects, independent and knowledgeable support to enable board members to be great programme/project sponsors, coach project managers to achieve excellent delivery.”

Carol listed two posts as the most widely read Fixing Projects pieces:

What is IDEF0?

PRINCE2, PMBoK, Agile

She also three other pieces she lists as her favourite:

The delivery of benefits is moderated by risk and quality

Kanban: visualizing work in progress

Planning Communication for Governance

Fixing Projects particularly tries to entice readers with specific weekly topical writings. For instance, Carol pointed to a 2010 series she did on communication for project managers.

Be sure to monitor Fixing Projects and Carol on Twitter @fixing_projects.

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EarthPM’s oft-mentioned slogan is “at the intersection of Green and Project Management,” a power-packed credo for two veteran project managers left with an indelible imprint on the importance of resource sustainability.

Rich Maltzman and Dave Shirley have worked primarily as project management practitioners in their respective 30 years of field experience, and in launching EarthPM they both have undertaken a regular publication they describe as “part altruism, part business idea.” More than that, environment-oriented projects and sustainability tap into a growing concern in world economic growth and prosperity, giving that business idea an opportunity like never before. Rich says that project management principles remain central to the goals of EarthPM because of their closeness to the medium.

“We’re motivated to blog by news stories and other pm blogs,” Rich says. “Our site is devoted to the intersection of Project Management and “Green” – where green has to do with preventing climate change, preserving resources, and getting things done effectively and efficiently, which should already be flowing in the ‘green’ blood of any project manager worth their weight in risk registers.”

While they are unable to cite favourite posts or a most widely read post – “We have 125 posts, all with roughly equal readership” – they describe the blog in buzzwords that tap across all mediums affected by sustainable project management. Or – considering the buzzwords they used included “Eclectic”, “electric”, “executive-level”, “energizing”, and “engaging” – all the relevant ones that shared the same first letter as “EarthPM”!

You can follow EarthPM and Rich Maltzman on Twitter @RichEarthPM.

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The Back from Red Blog, is a popular project management blog which brings together thirty years of program and project management experience from Todd C. Williams. Back from Red started in August 2009 and gains its title from Todd’s experience in recovering “red projects” .”From this experience, I have developed a process to make recoveries more efficient and prevent their reoccurrence.  This experience provides a wealth of knowledge on avoiding project failure.”

The Back From Red Blog focuses on the reasons for project failure.  The subjects range from technology to leadership, from teams to the individual.  They are intending to be thought provoking.  Each article is written to provide value to every reader.  Even if you do not agree with the content, the approach should make you think. The blog is not industry specific, although the examples are usually high-tech.

The Back from Red blog is aimed at VP and C Level Directors, Project Managers and team members. Todd shares his experience in weekly blog posts and enjoys the whole writing process including the research prior to each post, his blogging approach has brought many avid readers and fans.

Todd describes himself as focused on project audit and turn-around, he looks at projects that are failing or in trouble, identifies their real problems, drills down to the root causes and applies the corrective actions to get them moving again.  He saves organizations between 500,000 and three million dollars (US) per engagement.  Recently he signed a contract with AMACOM books to publish the book Back From Red: Recovering Failing Projects.  He wrote the book on project recovery.

Back from Red’s most popular blog piece to date:

Don’t be a Project Manager

And Todd’s top three personal favourites:

One More Project Team Member: The Doctor

Who Do You Trust

CIOs Are Fired For Failing to Provide Business Value

You can also follow Todd on Twitter: @BackFromRed

Blog: http://ecaminc.com/index.php/blog

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