PMP and LSS for Students in Colleges and High Schools Part II – Effect of High School on Final Board Examination –The Analytical Treatise
Part II – Effect of High School on Final Board Examination –The Analytical Treatise Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Co-Author-Project Lead Contributor, Ms. Reethika S. Iyer* Background: In Part I, we shared our experience on how parents make decisions to selecting high schools. Once the students graduate they are then again faced with the [...]
PMP and LSS for Students in Colleges and High Schools: Part I – Impact of High School Choice on Student Final Year Performance
Part I – Impact of High School Choice on Student Final Year Performance Dr. Shree R. Nanguneri and Project Lead Contributor, Ms. Reethika S. Iyer* Background: In an earlier publication on this forum we focused our discussions on the relevance, meaning and value of LSS and PMP professionals in the industry. In Part I of [...]
Turn the hour glass upside down to create more time…..
Many of us feel overloaded and overwhelmed with aggressive schedules and never-ending todo tasks. Often we wish for more time, or more hours in a day. What we don’t often realize is that it’s sometimes as easy as turning the hour glass upside down; emphasis on the phrase is “upside down”.
Handling delays in a project schedule (Part III)
This is the second part of a three part article discussing “how does a project manager intelligently handle delays?”
Last article we focused on acknowledging the natural flow of a project which includes periodic speed bumps and roadblocks. In today’s article we’ll focus on using critical path analysis to assist with project management. Diagramming the critical paths of a project accomplishes several things:
Handling the delays in a project schedule (Part II)
This is the second part of a three part article discussing “how does a project manager intelligently handle delays in a project?”
Last article we focused on acknowledging the natual flow of a project which includes periodic speed bumps and roadblocks. In today’s article we’ll focus on using recovery protocol plans to assist with project management.
How to Eat an Elephant
How to Eat an Elephant And close your eyes with holy dread, What was it about the number ‘3’ that is so fascinating to poets like Samuel Coleridge in his famous opium induced poem, ‘Kubla Khan’? I remember learning of a tribe in the highlands of Papua New Guinea whose language only had words for [...]
T-Time for Success
Many wise people will advise: Slow down to speed up Pausing to be creative Take a break to stay energized To assist with this advice, here are three T’s to remember: 1) Time a. Take control over your calendar b. Just because it’s “happening now” doesn’t make it urgent c. Expect the unexpected with sprints [...]
A Century of Scientific Management
Did you know Project Management is having a birthday? Well, sort of a birthday. It was 100 years ago, in 1911, that Frederick W. Taylor published Principles of Scientific Management. Early pioneers of project management, such as Henry Gantt, were followers of Dr. Taylor. Now, for historical accuracy, it should be noted that Dartmouth College [...]
What are some of the main causes behind estimating errors?
What are some of the main causes behind estimating errors? And what specific steps can project managers can take to increase the accuracy of estimations?
The Project Manager’s Multitool: The Status Report
Status reports (or whatever your particular methodological school calls them) are frequently maligned – c.f. “TPS Reports” in the movie Office Space – and misused. They are the weekly report that you just have to grind out for your project or program that shows you have been doing something, that you suspect no one reads [...]
Simple Tools, Advanced Users
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as part of your other professional responsibilities. Then you take a serious PM course or two, maybe get a PMP and suddenly you find yourself equipped with a giant tool chest full of powerful and complex [...]
Done or Done Done?
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration. In software, a piece of code may pass unit testing, but fail when integrated with other blocks. The code may work on one operating system, but not the four that the product declares it supports. [...]
Perfecting versus perfection.
We’ve all heard the groan: “We have an aggressive schedule to meet.” The fact is, it’s not the “schedule” timeline that is aggressive; rather, it’s what we choose to fit into it. Adopting an attitude of progress refinement (perfecting over perfection) with the confidence percentage strategy helps reduce this tension between promised and actually delivered tasks.
Santa, the Project Manager
Kris Kringle had been wondering about a way to brighten up the winter season, and at the same time reward all the world’s good little children. He wanted to delight them, and exceed their expectations, making all their dreams come true. He wanted to do all this in secret, surprising the Children on Christmas morning! [...]
