Leadership Solutions is a blog geared toward business professionals under the guidance and tutelage of Steve Kaye, an entrepreneur and professional speaker with a Ph.D in chemical engineering that puts particular focus in his brief daily postings on how to conduct effective staff meetings.

Though Steve’s blog, which premiered in May 2007, does not often hone in squarely on project management, the business principles, meetings advice, time management data and communication tips can all be effective resources for the PPM community.

“Leadership Solutions offers brief, practical tips on topics related to leadership,” he says. “Most of them also relate to my workshop, which include: Effective Meetings, Business Presentations, Effective Communication, and Time (Life) Management.” Steve added that he enjoys using the blog because “the process of writing expands my creative thinking and inventory of valuable ideas.”

Steve also writes a regular newsletters, a source for the three individual writings that he considered to be his favourites:

Business Lessions from Able Leader

Fear Chart

World’s Best Self Introduction

Those who wish to follow the Leadership Solutions blog and other actions of Steve Kaye can do so on Twitter @SteveKaye

Blog: http://blog.stevekaye.com

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OneGreatMeeting

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QAspire Blog is edited regularly by Tanmay Vora, a Quality management professional who seeks the trends and tendencies in management and leadership with his blog.

Starting in April 2006, Tanmay used QAspire to to delve into those two key aspects with short stories on those subjects.

“I started the blog because I was passionate about documenting and sharing lessons I learned while doing my work. – because I always wanted to get better at writing and expression,” he said. “Because I wanted to ‘explore’ this new fad called ‘blogging’ (and I am so glad I did).

“Motivation for blogging comes from validation of your thoughts: share knowledge, exchange ideas, take the subject forward and make some great friends along the way.“

Tanmay averages three posts a week, mainly consisting of practical ideas and insights in areas pertaining to quality, leadership and improvement for both businesses and professionals.

“Quality is at the core of business success and QAspire attempts to look at the soft side of quality through explorations on organization culture, leadership, project management, people and constant improvement,” he says.

Though project management is but one of the many things Tanmay focuses on through QAspire, he says the target audience of primarily senior managers, consultants and HR personnel also explicitly seeks out project managers.

Tanmay says the most popular post in the five-year history of QAspire focuses on how lessons are not just learned, but retained:

5 Ideas to Ensure That Lessons are Really Learned

He also has three other posts he lists as his favourites:

Seven Key Thoughts About Managing Human Resources

The Rubber Meets The Road 15

Working and Walking – Where Are You Going

To keep track of Tanmay’s updates to the QAspire blog, follow him on Twitter @tmvora

Blog: http://qaspire.com/blog/

RSS Feed: http://qaspire.com/blog/feed/

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The Project Box combines industrial psychology with project management topics to deliver a thought-provoking weekly blog under the editorial practice of Bernardo Tirado.

Bernardo is an Industrial Psychology practitioner and has worked in project management capacities for Fortune 50s from project manager to portfolio level leader. Bernardo was also an adjunct professor teaching industrial psychology at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Metropolitan College of New York. He says that through his use of The Project Box, he aims to approach project management from a psychological perspective.

“I wanted to provide an industrial psychology perspective on how to manage projects,” he says. “Many times Six Sigma, PMP, Prince2 focus on the technical elements in running projects but that’s only 10 to 20 % of projects success. The remaining is really contingent on human delivery. The Project Box provides insights and tools for Project Leaders to manage project teams. It focuses on the psychological impact of change and tips to delivery efficiency.

“Having been a professor teaching industrial psychology, I’ve always had the inclination to share/teach others through my experiences. I firmly believe a great leader is one that can pass on knowledge to others.”

Bernardo is a recent addition to the PPM blogosphere, having premiered The Project Box 25th June 2010, just six weeks prior to this profile. He says the most popular article on The Project Box focuses on comparing two regarded project management certifications.

Project Management Professional vs. Six Sigma

He also has three posts he lists as his particular favourites:

Knowing the Informal Leader in your Project Team

How to Maximize Business Process Re-engineering: People, Process, Tools

Body Language: You Say More Than You Think

You can follow Bernardo and The Project Box on Twitter @bernardo_tirado and on Facebook.

Blog: http://www.bernardotirado.com/

RSS Feed: http://www.steppingintopm.com/feeds/posts/default

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PM Technix is the newest blog we’ve added at PPM Community to date. Specifically, it came out almost exactly two weeks after this post was published. While there may be some time in need of passing before PM Technix is overflowing with content-rich PPM elements, there’s no doubt that Bruce Lofland will be the person to do it.

Bruce has been a Project Manager in IT environments throughout the Kansas City area since 1999, as well as a certified PMP since 2007. Prior to that, he spent several years working as a Software Developer. A senior figure of sorts amongst the project managers within the organisation he works for (which was not revealed), Bruce felt the logical next step to sharing PM know-how was within the friendly confines of a blog.

“I am surprised by the lack of expertise and knowledge demonstrated by even PMP certified PMs,” Bruce told us. “My posts will help with simple, but less-than-obvious, tips to make them more effective. I am a mentor to PMs in my organization and wanted to share my insights with other PMs on a wider scale. It also helps to get feedback and network.”

Link: http://pmtechnix.com/blog

RSS Feed: http://blog.pmtechnix.com/?feed=rss2

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The Practicing IT PM is another recent addition to PPM blogosphere by Las Vegas native Dave Gordon, IT Project Portfolio Manager for MGM Resorts International since 2006.

Starting in June 2010 (merely two months before this feature), Dave felt The Practicing IT PM would be the perfect outlet for sharing an expertise that stretches over 25 years in IT and has afforded him the experience of managing projects in software development, ERP and business process outsourcing all across the United States, Canada, Spain and the UK. An outlet that, he told us, he plans to stick to, with a post rate that leads to 2-3 updates each week.

“I wanted a creative outlet that would give me an both opportunity and an obligation to write,” Dave says. “I do a few hours of reading and research each week in order to have something to blog about, and that is already making me more effective in my job.”

Dave says Practicing IT PM provides news, articles, links, book reviews, and insight into information technology and project management techniques, tools, and trends.

“Each Sunday, I do a weekly summary of articles posted on the web of interest to practicing IT project managers,” he says. “I also have created a list of recommended books, including both “dead tree” and Kindle E-books, available via a link to Amazon.

“I wanted to have a reason to write regularly, but I also wanted to write about something of professional interest to me. I find that the reading and research I do is significantly improving my skill set, benefiting me ‘on the job.’”

David has three particular posts that he lists as his favourites in the early days of Practicing IT PM:

Conference Calls Across Time Zones
IT Department Activities: A Taxonomy
Thinking About Pursuing the PMP Credential?

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.

URL: http://earthpm.com/

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/EarthPm

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Corporate Geek  is a blog that combines the professional passions of veteran IT project manager Ciprian Rusen and delivery manager Richard Newton. Namely, technology, the internet, project management and visual communication. Ciprian, currently with Procter & Gamble and previously of IBM, wrote to us to describe the motivations for Corporate Geek as a viable PM blog:

“I am a geek at heart, passionate about technology, the internet, project management and visual communication,” Ciprian says. “Corporate Geeks wants to share tips & real-life experience about project management. We will do this from two perspectives: the one of senior project managers with lots of experience, which evolved together with the profession; the one of junior project managers, very much in touch with the latest trends in using technology to run projects and working with virtual teams.”

Ciprian says he blogs with an toward sharing his experiences with the greater PPM community, saying that although he posts weekly he tries to blog “mostly when I feel like I’ve got something worthwhile to share.” In essence, Corporate Geek – which targets fellow project managers and corporate project-related personnel alike – is meant to be one of substance for the sake of providing good information, rather than the style of sheer volume.

Ciprian has a good professional background to work from.

“I’ve been delivering IT projects and project management training programs since 2007,” he said, “and I’m PMP (Project Management Professional) certified. I’ve worked in the IT area since 2004, going through roles such as: technical resource, technical lead, freelance consultant and now project manager.

Corporate Geek is a viable resource in the project and programme management community also because of a running feature – a running item called “The Best of the Web for Corporate Geeks”.

“It features the best articles we find on the internet which would be of interest to fellow project managers.”

Ciprian lists his posts on emails and documents as the most popular on the Corporate Geek archive:

Measure the Readability of Your Documents and E-mails

He has three other posts he named to be his favourites:

Ideas On How To Create Powerful Presentations

5 Reasons Why Project Managers Should Use Facebook

Six Symptoms of Poor Prioritisation

Follow Ciprian, Richard and Corporate Geek posts on Twitter @ciprianrusen

URL: http://corporategeek.info

RSS Feed: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/CorporateGeek

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Project Management Reviews is a recent addition to the PPM blogosphere from Nguyen Son, a veteran project manager with experience in handling ERP projects in transport, chemical and telecommunications. Beginning in June 2010, Son devoted two new posts each week to the blog.

“I would like to be involved more in project management communities, both online and offline,” Nguyen told us. “I’m motivated to blog because I want to be involved more in project management communities. To propose proper project management practice.”

Nguyen’s intended audience consists of both project and programme managers, plus those budding PMs hoping to successfully find an in-road as a practitioner. He says that the lessons his learned in his own career guide his posts.

“In my blog I write about my experience, insights and personal thoughts about project management as a profession,” he says.

Son says the most popular post at Project Management Reviews deal with Project Scope:

Project Scope Management – The Basic Principles

Two other posts join the Scope post in ranking among his personal favourites:

Do You Really Plan Your Project?

Look Back Not Just Forward

You can find Nguyen on Twitter @nlongson

URL: http://pmreviews.org

RSS: http://pmreviews.org/feed/

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The Hard-Nosed Project Manager tends to gravitate in scope toward its given title: hard-nosed, as well as practical, first-hand experience and observation as opposed to theory. Specifically, it is written from the hard-nosed experience of Patrick Richard, a Montreal-based PMP, with Combat and Chemical Engineering experience across a variety of industries. Admittedly, Patrick says he was surprised that his approach to project management was anything but “out there” when he started Hard-Nosed in January 2010.

“It was NOT a New Year resolution,” Patrick says. “I attended a class by Harold Kerzner and was surprised that my approach to project management was not “way out there”. I started reading other PM blogs and decided that I could contribute.”

Patrick adds new posts a “few times a week” to Hard-Nosed, and says word or mouth or relevant buzz in the industry inspires him to write.

“I’m motivated to post by something I read or heard, something that happens in one of my projects, questions from peers or those looking for mentorship,” he says. “I intend to reach other PMs, those who aspire to become PMs, those who face team leadership issues.”

Follow Patrick and The Hard-Nosed Project Manager on the following portals:

Blog: http://thehardnosedpm.typepad.com/

RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHard-nosedProjectManager

Twitter @hardnosedpm

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickrichard?trk=btn_typepad

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PM Snack is a combo programme / project management blog presented by veteran programme manager Mykola Dudar that began in January 2010 as a means to share best practices in PPM.

Mykola, a Seattle native who currently works as a Programme Manager in the Windows division of Microsoft, manages programmes on products for software developers and “a software developer when not wearing PM hat,” in his own words. Each week, he updates his findings on new best practice advice in a software development capacity at PM Snack.

“I started the blog to collect best practices of program management and project management that I find working in my experience,” he says. “I share my opinion about what works and what does not, point out lessons learned by me or other PMs. I also read many books, attend trainings and use various PM software and I share my opinion about them.”

The blog, according to Mykola, is aimed at Programme and Project Managers both either by title or responsibility. He says that PM Snack is mostly focused on software development but feels the blog features universal principles that cross into many different industries.

“PM Snack collects best practices of program management and project management in software development. Program and project managers can find here lessons learned by other PMs; guidance on improving in key program and project manager skills; opinions, reviews and recommendations of tools, software, books and other resources helpful to PMs in their job.”

The most widely read post at PM Snack compares Project and Programme Management within the same company:

Program vs. Project Management in Program Manager Position

Mykola lists the above post plus two others as his favourite PM Snack writings:

Invest in learning from successes, focus less on mistakes

Start Effective Email With Catchy Subject Line

Be sure to follow Mykola and PM Snack on Twitter @mykoladudar

Blog: http://www.pmsnack.com/

RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pmsnack

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