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.
Why projects fail? Read More »
Many wise people will advise: Slow down to speed up Pausing to be creative Take a break to stay energized
T-Time for Success Read More »
Did you know Project Management is having a birthday? Well, sort of a birthday. It was 100 years ago, in
A Century of Scientific Management Read More »
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?
What are some of the main causes behind estimating errors? Read More »
If you are managing a project to deliver a new product or service, you’ll be making lots of decisions. If
It’s Never Been Easier To Stay Close To Your Customers Read More »
Status reports (or whatever your particular methodological school calls them) are frequently maligned – c.f. “TPS Reports” in the movie
The Project Manager’s Multitool: The Status Report Read More »
When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as
Simple Tools, Advanced Users Read More »
Project managers work on various projects, sometimes traveling to various clients’ sites. You juggle many emails, calls, faxes and meetings
Learn a foreign language in between projects and on the go Read More »
A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration.
Done or Done Done? Read More »
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.
Perfecting versus perfection. Read More »
We’ve all heard about Agile, the good and the bad. While to some Agile is relatively new, I started being