Author: Jeffrey W. Drake

Jeffrey W. Drake, Ph.D., is a professional speaker and consultant for AchieveMax®, Inc., a firm specializing in custom-designed keynote presentations, seminars, and consulting services. Jeff has made presentations ranging from leadership to empowered teams and project management to communication styles for a number of industries, including education, financial, government, healthcare, and manufacturing. For more information on Jeff's presentations, please call 800-886-2629 or fill out our contact form.
  • Project Feature Creep

    This article is the fourth in an occasional series on project creep. The focus of this article is on feature creep, something closely related to scope creep. Our custom-designed “Project Management: From Concept to Completion” seminar contains many basic tools for project managers. A topic area that seminar participant can easily relate to is project…

  • Project Effort Creep

    Our custom-designed “Project Management: From Concept to Completion” seminar contains many basic tools for project managers. Project managers have many challenges to deal with. One area of challenges frequently addressed is that of project creep. There are many excellent books on project management available in the marketplace. One particular book, Effective Project Management by Wysocki, Beck,…

  • Project Hope Creep

    Our custom-designed “Project Management: From Concept to Completion” seminar contains many basic tools for project managers. Project managers have many challenges to deal with. One area of challenges frequently addressed is that of project creep. There are many excellent books on project management in the marketplace. One particular book, Effective Project Management by Wysocki, Beck, and…

  • Project Scope Creep

    The AchieveMax® company has been presenting custom-designed seminars for clients all over North America for more than 25 years. About ten years ago, one of our clients requested us to develop a custom-designed “Project Management: From Concept to Completion” seminar for their specific needs. After developing that initial seminar, we have since custom designed that seminar for numerous…