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Lessons Learned Only Matter If You Use Them

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 “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well.” —Thich Nhat Hanh. Spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist. ——————— Lessons Learned Start Early We at Aponwao, have always been a big fan of lessons learned. We collect them from day […]

Planning the Future: How Young Students Are Applying Project Management to City Design

City of Wenatchi diorama on a bright yellow display featuring a grid of tiny painted buildings connected by sticks, green hills and brown mountains capped with snow rising in the background. A blue river, representing the Columbia River, along the front, and a tall blue building on the right, with a round Wenatchi logo showing mountains and a sun in the center.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.“ A. Einstein  City of Wenatchi Project On behalf of the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF), I had the pleasure of serving as judge for the Washington State region of Future City 2025–2026, the ultimate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics […]

40 Years In: Project Management Fundamentals

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My PM Beginnings: A Foundation Built To Last Just two years out of college I was fortunate to land a job in Marshall y Asociados (MYA), a new company, uniquely specialized in Project Management.  I started as a scheduler when MYA was only a year old. My first project? “El Menito”, the development of a […]