Project Decelerators – what are they?
You are excited. A newly minted project manager, you have just received your first assignment: develop the new version of […]
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Goals
Clearing the Underbrush
One of my CEOs recently mentioned that the recession is forcing him to rethink all aspects of his business, including
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Setting priorities
Image by hockadilly via Flickr We discussed how to set SMART goals and define where we are today. Now we
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Gap Analysis – Where are you now?
Image via Wikipedia To take Wikipedia’s definition, a gap analysis is a business assessment tool enabling a company to compare
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Are you spending too much time planning?
This may sound blasphemous to a professional project manager, but it is possible to over-plan. I have seen it happen
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Check these four items before analyzing your budget numbers
As a project manager, you must understand these four budget items. If you do not recognize and understand them it is possible (even likely) that you will not properly understand your budget status and you may make wrong decisions based on these misunderstanding.
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Reverse-Engineering Requirements?
By Josh Nankivel Fellow blogger Craig Brown over at Better Projects asked “Why reverse engineer requirements?” in a recent post.Interesting
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Project Progress Trend Analysis
If you are like most project managers, you wish you had a better real-time handle on the progress of your
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The Scope Baseline
I’m studying for the PMP exam, and I’m using the PMPrepcast to study. I actually found one point to disagree
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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
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An unrepeatable success?
Back in the very old days (early 80’s), I was on a team (of 24, I think) that delivered a
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