Back to basics: Environment first!!
In any project plan, there is generally an awareness of the phases of the project life cycle (PLC) which is […]
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Goals
Managing environmental change in electronics.
Hi – My name is John Burke, and for the last 9 years I have been involved in the process
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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
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How to Get the Estimates You Need
So you need to put together a schedule, but are having trouble getting estimates from your team? Believe it or
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Avoiding Communication Pitfalls
Ugh, the communication pitfall. We’ve all fallen into them. The question is, can you get out? Or better still, can
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Risks or Problems – What’s the Difference?
Most of us know that risk comes inherent with a project because projects involve unknowns. What I find in my
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Getting through those HOOPS!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an article on job stress that says that being expected to do more with less,
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Oh no! Not another meeting, phone con, videoconference?
Fact: Project schedules or budgets seldom include “meeting” time costs which often exceed 35% of time available to work on
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A Common Sense Approach to Managing Risk
This weekend I was teaching Project Risk and Opportunity Management at Santa Clara University in the graduate engineering school. As
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A System Perspective on Project Management Part II -The Mega Project
As I write this I am helping to facilitate a workshop dealing with how to transition the US portion
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A Systems Approach To Project Management
There are many aspects of project management that are important and worthy of comment. In this post I will present
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