Explorations Lessons
I just finished the book Blind Decent of James Tabor. It came highly recommended by a good friend of mine. […]
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Planning
Integrating Lean Six Sigma and Project Management Skills! Part I (of III series this week) – Applicability to Industrial Professionals!
Industry Professionals: In this 3-part series, we will share with our readers on how skills in the process excellence area
Why projects fail?
So many projects depend on IT and business alignment, and so many fail because that alignment is often like a Platonic ideal unrealizable in the real world. The question is:
why projects fail,
who’s to blame,
and how to fix the problem.
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T-Time for Success
Many wise people will advise: Slow down to speed up Pausing to be creative Take a break to stay energized
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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
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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?
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It’s Never Been Easier To Stay Close To Your Customers
If you are managing a project to deliver a new product or service, you’ll be making lots of decisions. If
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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
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Simple Tools, Advanced Users
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as
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Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
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Done or Done Done?
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration.
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