Who’s Really on Your Team? How to Work with Difficult People

PMI Community Post, by Pattie Vargas, MAOM, PMP

Never Say No - Managing Change in a Project

A blog posted by Martin Burns

Never Say No To a Client

Project Managers: Just Say No!

A blog posted by Raven Young at Raven's Brain under Project Management

Saying "No": A Tutorial for Project Managers

by Rick Brenner

Have you ever thought "Why did I ever agree to do that" ?
Have you ever wished that you knew better how to say no — or even how to avoid volunteering to do something — without suffering undue consequences?
Giving a firm and clear No can feel good if it comes from a place of high self-esteem.

How to Say No

By John Hrastar

Goddard Space Flight Center

John offerred two points of thought re. saying no as a project manager:
1. Focus on meeting the basic requirements
2. You don't necessarily need to know how to solve the problem. The refusal forces a reappraisal of the issue, possibly stimulating more creative solutions.

You cannot outsource risk

According to Gartner, more than 60% of companies do not do any security risk mitigation when outsourcing development.

Rob Rachwald has some suggestions.

International Project Management Standard - ISO 21500

IT trends in banking: key focus for 2009

European banks will this year invest in IT to improve risk management, increase flexibility and reduce complexity. And they will outsource and offshore more…

Outsourcing can offer good returns

IT outsourcing has proved disappointing for many companies, failing to live up to the promises of the business case or deliver the expected return on investment. But good management can turn it into a success, as Liz Warren discovers.