If your boss can't talk about feelings, for instance, use language that's more task- and bottom-line-oriented, like, "I devoted a lot of the organization's resources and my internal resources to this project and I'd like to learn more about what happened".
I read about the resources for this project and got very interested.
At the beginning of a project cycle, project managers should ask: Do we have the resources for this project?
How could I devote immense, intensive personal and professional resources to this project and dare to bring it to 20 cities, when the music sitting in front of me felt – apologies to these fine composers – like a gimmick while the world around me continued to surge out of control?
WVA has already invested significant time and resources in this project and our country partners, particularly the host governments, are deeply saddened to learn that their efforts to improve basic infrastructure, health and quality of life for the most vulnerable groups within their communities may be at risk.
That's quite a blow for Microsoft, which put a lot of resources into this project, which launched to middling reviews and failed to catch on with customers.
I was able to use the resources from this project to go to Lima, Peru and help with the clinical trials in a cancer hospital there.
Money alone, of course, may not have been enough to help catch the Heartbleed bug, so it's good to see that the participating companies are also dedicating test resources to this project.
But the fact that News Corp. is putting so many resources into this project raises a basic question that has yet to be answered satisfactorily: What should an iPad newspaper look like?
But the biggest resources for this project, according to the industry's leaders, are the customers who borrow against their future paychecks.
