Simple steps to manage your project changes
This is the 3rd of the three articles that discuss about strategies for new project managers to function effectively. The three steps are; understanding top ten reasons of a project failure and how to proactively plan to avoid them, how to have a solid communication plan and how to manage changes. The 3rd article covers the importance of impact analysis and how to manage changes.
Project communication and how to create a communication management plan
This is the 2nd of the three articles that discuss about strategies for new project managers to function effectively. The three steps are; understanding top ten reasons of a project failure and how to proactively plan to avoid them, how to have a solid communication plan and how to manage changes. The 2nd article covers the importance of communication and how to create project communicationmanagement plan.
Tools & Techniques – Microsoft Project Best Practices (2)
Project Conference 2009 continues through this week in Phoenix, AZ. As Microsoft prepares for the release of Project 2010, it’s a good time to reflect on some additional best practices that project managers should keep in mind when using their current version of Microsoft Project.
Know the Limitations of Critical Path Methodology – CPM was developed [...]
Cutting to the Chase on Organizational Maturity
Jim Sloane is a particularly adept person to provide an executive primer on organizational project management maturity. There are a multitude of models and approaches for measuring organization maturity and the associated business benefits. With the increasing number of tools and models available to organizations, it can be challenging to choose the best [...]
How to Write a Project Charter
What is a Project Charter?
The project charter, sometimes also called a Project Overview Statement (POS), is the signed document that formally defines and authorizes a project. Reaching an agreement on the nature of a new project, including its scope, objectives, and constraints can be a difficult but healthy process for a group of key stakeholders [...]
Engaging brain before engaging outsourcing
If you have not read Shampa’s post below I encourage all of you to read it. I would like to point out a few newish developments on the software side. First of all my information on outsourcing prices is from about two years ago. As most of you know the dollar has taken a significant [...]
Indian Tailors and Project Management
Perhaps a few of you will frown upon this entry. It is not academic or pedagogical but I think project management should apply to all aspects of life. I recently returned from a trip to India my home country. And like many Indians and a lot of Silicon Valley VCs, I feel that I should [...]
Project Management For Dummies Horror Story
Wow, I guess they’ve got a for dummies book on everything now. Awesome. There is also of course the 10 minute project manager book in case you find yourself dubbed project manager 10 minutes before the kick off meeting.
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Valuing Time as a Business Resource – Interview with Curt Finch
I recently read a new book by Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc. titled “All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy – Valuing Time as a Business Resource.” I have always been a student of time management, so I was delighted with the opportunity to interview Curt about the book. Please enjoy the interview below.
Environmental Electronics – no time to learn from your mistakes!!
Unusual title I know – Saturday at last (and my last blog here)
I just spent the day shooting clays – my score is getting better every time I get out on the range and practice. One day I may actually be able to hit all of them – who knows.
The reason for the comparison is [...]
Environmental compliance: Putting it all together (or have it all fall apart: )
A fast overview of the things you need to check from a project management perspective.
(Friday …… at last…………..)
This week we have looked at a number of areas.
The first is that of the environmental compliance actions arising out of the MRD (Marketing Requirements Doc).
Everything related to environmental compliance hinges on this document and the geographic areas into [...]
Enabling Product Success with Checkpoint Reviews
At an entrepreneurs’ forum I recently attended, I was heartened to hear that even startups recommended checkpoint reviews.
The term “checkpoint review” can have different meanings in different contexts; in this article, it refers to a cross-functional executive review that the project team must pass to continue. This happens at key milestones to make sure your product is on [...]
Cost – do we focus on it too much?
I’m looking for some insight from all of you on a point that’s been bothering me lately. On many recent projects, “time to market” has been defined, and rightly so, as the top priority (I still use the triple constraints as a key organizing/prioritization guide). Given the competitive pressures and the related shortened [...]
Point 4 – Deming in Project Management
Consider Costs and Benefits of the Entire System and Deliverable Lifetime
The textbook wording of this point varies, but is usually something like “Stop making decisions purely on the basis of cost.” When I read the various descriptions however, I believe the textbook title is not an adequate summary.
When Deming talks about not making decisions purely [...]
Point 3 – Deming in Project Management
Inspection is a Tool for Improvement, Not a Whip
Deming’s third point urges practitioners to design quality into processes, using inspection as an information-gathering tool to do so. In project management, the processes and systems make up a methodology. Does your organization have a consistent methodology, or does everyone run projects their own way?
Inspecting project performance [...]
