Project Management Compass
William MellerFor new project managers: weekly guides and insights to help you manage chaos with clarity. Build real project management skills for your career and your life.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 172 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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How to Own Your Career Without Knowing All the Steps
Have you ever felt that strange pressure to know exactly where your career is going?
That little voice asking if you should already have the next five years planned, or if you should have a perfect explanation for every move you made so fa...
Reporting Complexity: The 3 Health Lines That Improve Your Project RAG Status
A project can be green on schedule and still fail at what it was funded to do. An indicator set built on PMI's 2026 damage clusters, with thresholds and a report structure that works.
Hej, welcome again!
The 12 Ways Complexity Damages Projects (Some Stay Invisible)
If you have been following my recent articles on the complexity topic and the PMI Pulse of the Profession, you can now score where your project’s complexity comes from, across the three dimensions, and you know which one is dominant.
That...
How to Score Your Project's Complexity in One Sitting
A 15-item diagnostic built on PMI's three-dimension model, with the evidence to collect, the scoring anchors, and what to fix for each result.
Nice… If you read the previous article, you know where we stopped.
Why 31% of Complex Projects Fail to Deliver Their Benefits
In the 2024 Maximizing Project Success research, PMI measured how often projects fail to achieve the full scope of their originally intended benefits. The number was 12%.
The 2026 Pulse of the Profession asked the same thing about complex...
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