Jeff Oltmann
Oregon, USA
Jeff Oltmann is principal consultant at Synergy Professional Services, LLC in Portland, Oregon, USA (www.spspro.com). He is also on the graduate faculty of the Division of Management at Oregon Health and Science University. Jeff welcomes your questions and ideas.
You can contact him at jeff@spspro.com or read previous articles at www.spspro.com/resources.htm.
Created September 2013
Articles and Papers
- Keeping Teams Steady When Stress Peaks - Advisory Article - Oltmann - January 2026
- Why Teams Need Systems to Thrive - Advisory Article - Oltmann - December 2025
- Rolling Wave Planning: How to Plan Fuzzy Projects - Advisory Article - Oltmann - November 2025
- It’s Not About You: Leading Thriving Teams - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - September 2025
- The Power of Scoring for Better Project Decisions - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - July 2025
- Six Tactics for Leading Through the Fog - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - May 2025
- What’s a PMO to do? - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - March 2025
- Don’t Reward the Arsonist - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - January 2025
- Don’t Cheerlead During a Crisis - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - September 2024
- How to Love Your Fuzzy Front End - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - August 2024
- What Should a PMO Be? – The Sequel - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - July 2024
- Looking for a Goldilocks Moment - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - June 2024
- Forward Progress: The Consolidation Technique - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - May 2024
- Why Can’t We Learn? - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - April 2024
- What Makes an Effective Portfolio Manager? - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - March 2024
- Taking Action: Multivoting + Fist-to-Five + SBAR (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - April 2023
- Taking Action: Decision Grid + Pick Chart (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - March 2023
- Getting Ideas: Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and Affinity Clustering - Series Article - Oltmann - February 2023
- Getting Ideas: SWOT Analysis (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - January 2023
- Pareto Analysis (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - December 2022
- Advanced Parking Lot + Tossed Salad (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - November 2022
- QuickTip – Issues and Answers (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - October 2022
- Gathering Information: Brainstorming (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - September 2022
- Getting Ideas: How to Gather Requirements (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - August 2022
- Five Whys (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - July 2022
- Gap Analysis and Cause & Effect Analysis (Quick Tips for Team Leaders) - Series Article - Oltmann - June 2022
- How to Hold a Project Retrospective - Advisory Articles - Oltmann - October 2020
- Stop Email Abuse - Commentaries - Oltmann - September 2013
- Agile vs. Traditional: an Unnecessary War! - Commentaries - Oltmann - March 2013