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Project Plans: 10 Essential Elements
February 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many people (and a distressing number of project managers, too) think only of a Gantt chart when they think of a project plan. You may recognise it as what you get from Microsoft Project. This is...
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Top Tips For Project Implementation
December 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
In an increasingly fast paced world, clients want project implementation to be quicker and less intrusive. It's a tough thing to achieve because implementing a business solution is not a...
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Considerations Before Soliciting Input For Your Content Management Project
December 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
When you manage a new Project to streamline an organisation's website or to develop a new website, you must gather input from many people inside the organisation. First, think about your direction...
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Project Management Of A Global Team
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is entirely possible to put together a business consortium or a project team made of subject matter experts spread across all time zones and from around the world. In fact, this kind of...
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Useful Techniques To Fine-Tune Your Project Schedule
October 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The basic foundation of managing a project is creating an efficient and realistic project schedule. During project planning, the PM is given the chance to give it some fine-tuning. This is the...
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The Phased Approach To Project Management Implementation
September 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Throughout the initiation phase, project management consultants use pilot projects to build process momentum, overcome natural resistance to change, and gain first-hand knowledge of your...
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Distinguishing Portfolio Management, Programme Management And Project Management
July 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is often a misunderstanding, and hence a mixed and overlapping use of terms, when it comes to programme management. Sometimes a programme is called a project. Sometimes a project is called a...
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The Problem With IT Project Management
July 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Most corporate IT environments have significant complexity. Even if the set of systems and applications are small in number, their interconnections, customisations, and dependencies quickly evolve...
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How To Report Status On A Project
June 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
If your project is important, your boss will be pressed hard to keep his superiors informed of its progress. Smart managers consume status on important projects voraciously. Excel lent status...
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How To Deliver Project Status
June 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Status is project management communication, and any channel of communication available to you is a possible delivery method for status. There are two basic kinds of delivery method: presentation...
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Building The Project Firing Squad
June 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Regardless of Where our IT organisation has progressed in the evolution from a utility like service to a executor of business strategy, the bread and butter of' most IT' organisations is the...
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21 Project Management Success Tips
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Managing software projects is difficult tinder the best circumstances. The project manager must balance competing stakeholder interests against the constraints of limited resources and time, ever...
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Project Management Starts With A Capital C
May 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Communication, Communication, Communication! In the world of project management today, it has become increasingly more important to turn our efforts toward more effective means of communication,...
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PRINCE2 And The Project Management Board
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A core part of the PRINCE2 project management method is the Project Management Board (PMB). The PMB was designed to provide the management of the physical and technical aspects of the project, as...
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17 "Must Ask" Questions For Planning Successful Projects
March 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Why do some projects proceed without a hitch, yet others flounder? One reason may be the type and quality of the questions people ask at the very start. This paper gives 17 insightful queries that...
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Developing A New Project Scorecard
March 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
Managers and project managers gauge the success of any project undertaken through a new project scorecard. In the development of this scorecard, relevant metrics will have to he pre - determined....
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Do You Know Where Your Project Is?
March 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Projects are ultimately about making an organisation stronger and better, and that means it's important to make sure you're choosing the right projects, allocating the right resources, tracking...
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Project Planning A Step By Step Guide
March 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The key to a successful project is in the planning. Creating a project plan is the first thing you should do when undertaking any kind of project. Often project planning is ignored in favour of...
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Pareto Analysis Step By Step
June 8, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Pareto Analysis is a statistical technique in decision making that is used for the selection of a limited number of tasks that produce significant overall effect. It uses the Pareto Principle...
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Improve Project Success With Better Scope Management
August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
More than seventy percent of projects fail. When projects fail, it's rarely technical. Over eighty percent of those projects fail due to project management. Projects, like business, often fail...
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A Corporate Project Selection Process
March 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Regardless of the economy, projects within an organisation exist to address problems, opportunities or directives. These are commonly referred to as business drivers. It is from these business...
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The "Real" Project Plan
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A project plan is not a one-time deliverable that remains static throughout the project. Updates arising from approved changes during project execution may significantly impact parts of the plan....
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Technology Project Planning: Too Much Of A Good Thing
February 26, 2008, 12:00am PST
For many of us, it may be best not to let go of our conditioned response to project planning and critical thinking, not just yet anyway. The conditioning represents an overall positive motivation,...
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Planning A Project Using A Work Breakdown Structure & Logic Network
September 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Projects don't just happen they are planned. The whole project team should develop the plan not just the project manager. This ensures that the teams' experiences are taken into account and that...
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The Corporate Advantages Of A Project Management Process
March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A Project Management (PM) process is a process that wraps sound and repeatable structure around a series of events that lead to a projects completion or implementation. In most cases, you will see...
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What Is User Requirements Capture?
March 8, 2009, 12:00am PST
A User Requirements Capture is a research exercise that is undertaken early in a project lifecycle to establish and qualify the scope of the project. The aim of the research is to understand the...
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The Beginning Of The End: Defining Project Closure
October 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It is essential to be prepared throughout the entire life cycle of a software development project, and an important element of preparation is to have established an insightful closure plan. In...
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SMART Goals Reduce Ambiguity And Increase Commitment
October 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the core competencies for leaders is the ability to deal with ambiguity, that condition where things are not what they seem. And the higher in an organisation a leader goes, the more...
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Project Scheduling And Resource Levelling
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
We all know that in the real world we, as project managers, are given the finish date of the project before we even have a chance to plan for it. This is a good enough reason why we need to get...
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Senior Managers Need To Play Their Project Role(S) More Effectively
April 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Running training events is often a dumping ground for people's frustrations. Some of our problems are deeply ingrained and take a lot of shifting. One such problem is the role that senior...
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How To Get Out Of Project Overwhelm
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Its two weeks before the deadline. But your project is at least six weeks behind! Everyone is sweating bullets. As project leader, you're wringing your hands. A volcano of surprises has erupted...
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5 Essentials To Project Team Success
February 15, 2008, 12:00am PST
To maximise the contribution of project teams, a number of essentials need to be recognised. The good news is that the essentials to team success aren't expensive, don't require the expenditure of...
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Your Risk Management Process: A Practical And Effective Approach
October 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A risk management process does not have to be complicated or time consuming to be effective. By following a simple, tested, and proven approach that involves seven steps taken at the beginning of...
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Let Project Management Boost The Bottom-Line
March 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The next time you hear the words "Bottom-line" when you're sitting in the audience at a company meeting, don't roll your eyes. Instead, think about all the ways that you as a project manager can...
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Setting Measurable Project Objectives
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Examine ten projects at random, and you will see some of the worst written objectives. Project objectives are often hard to track, vague, and lacking in depth. In project objectives, people need...
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Project Management Basics
March 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Understanding how projects should be managed or "By the book" methodology is a good reference guide and tool for everyone. But, in order to succeed the project manager must understand the myriad...
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Project Management: Why Projects Fail
March 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Have you ever wondered why some projects go smoothly and others seem plagued with problems? This paper explains about five reasons why projects can fail and how with good project management these...
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Real World Project Management: Communications
March 27, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It's not that you don't mean to understand your date or your project team member, it's just that you're not listening. You've got a bazillion things racing through your head, you're focused on...
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Earned Value Management Study: Is Your Organisation Ready For EVM?
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper encourages project managers to participate in an academic survey to help determine if an organisation is ready to apply earned value management to its projects. Earned value management...
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Avoid The Same Old Mistakes By Focussing On Lessons Learned
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
It's said there are no new project management sins, just old ones repeated. It's also said that we don't learn the lessons from past projects and this must be true, otherwise why would we keep...
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Are Project Management Practices Generic?
April 5, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Formalised project management frameworks such as those codified in PMBOK provide practitioners with a range of tools and techniques that can be applied in a variety of projects. However, such...
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Project Management: Time Estimates And Planning
April 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Accurate time estimation is a skill essential for good project management. Time estimates drive the setting of deadlines for delivery and planning of projects, and hence will impact on other...
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The Project Management Problem
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A vast majority of professionals think they have a problem these days, project management. Problem is, that's not the problem. Well, it is, but not the way they usually think it is. The only way...
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Collective Intelligence Builds New Approach To Project Management
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The new generation of Web-based tools unleashes the power of collective intelligence and changes the pattern of project management. It allows associates to collaborate on project plans. The...
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The Purpose Of Project Management And Setting Objectives
April 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Project Management has developed in order to plan, co-ordinate and control the complex and diverse activities of modern industrial and commercial projects. All projects share one common...
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The Secrets To Earned Value Management Success
April 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Earned Value (EV) is a management tool for tracking and communicating a project's status. Earned Value Management (EVM) will let you know the actual state of the project by comparing your current...
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Get Maximum Benefits Of Merging Top-Down And Bottom-Up Project Management
April 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, the bottom-up approach to management is becoming more and more popular. More and more, organisations are abandoning the top-down management style. The essence of the top-down approach is...
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What Is The Secret To Project Management?
April 24, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Whether you're trying to communicate a scope change to a customer or trying to understand why your team is struggling with a specific task of phase of a project, the power of empathic listening...
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The Top Five Project Management Traits To Master "The How"
April 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In project management, we tend to focus on the method. And there is no shortage of methods (Six Sigma, Scrum, Waterfall). The method is the what of project management and is often at the core of...
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Project Management Models, Certifications And The Pyramids
May 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
All projects are really about change. Let's take one great project of all time: the pyramids of Egypt. Imagine a sweltering desert with miles of sand, snakes, and other scenes from an Indiana...
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The Simplified Project Management Process
May 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the challenges of explaining project management to people who are unfamiliar with the approach, is that descriptions are often either so high-level as to be meaningless, or so detailed that...
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The Blending Of Traditional And Agile Project Management
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Traditional project management involves very disciplined and deliberate planning and control methods. With this approach, distinct project life cycle phases are easily recognisable. Tasks are...
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Successful Projects Are Led Not Managed
June 26, 2008, 12:00am PDT
More and more in nowadays' environment Project Managers are being judged on how well they operate within, and adhere, to standard practices and disciplines. This is all very well, but let us stand...
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The 3 P's Of PPProject Management
July 2, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explains about Presentation, Planning and Processing; the three cornerstones of project management. Project management is an immense field and one which changes from industry to...
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Getting Work Done: The Human Side Of Project Management
July 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Project management is defined as the art and science of getting work done with the active co-operation of individuals and organisations who are directly or indirectly involved with the project....
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10 Rules Of Highly Successful Project Management
September 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A successful project manager is one who can envision the entire project from start to finish, and have the prowess to realise this vision. To keep pace with business and IT, project managers need...
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Factors That Influence Project Management In Package Implementation Projects And Bespoke Projects
November 12, 2008, 12:00am PST
Business requirements are solved either by building a new system or by buying a readily available product or by a combination of both. The 'Build vs Buy' decision is made by the stakeholders after...
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Project Communications: How To Keep Your Team Engaged And Informed
November 14, 2008, 12:00am PST
Communications are a critical deliverable of every successful project and a key project management soft-skill. You may not have thought of communications as an actual project deliverable, but it...
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Considerations Before Soliciting Input For Your Content Management
December 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
When you manage a new project to streamline an organisation's website or to develop a new website, you must gather input from many people inside the organisation. First, think about your direction...
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Project Portfolio Management: Managing The Project Pipeline
December 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
For most service departments the demand for new projects will occasionally outweigh the department's capacity to do them. Whether it's due to financial constraints or skills being completely...
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Balancing Project Management Process With Project Delivery
December 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
Project management processes provide organisation and guidance on the steps to follow during the life of your project, but they can be a roadblock if the process becomes more important than the...
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Project Managers: The Value Of Understanding Technology
January 9, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many project managers are extremely successful in their role by simply managing a project plan and checking off tasks as they become "100% complete." They're able to manage teams, create budgets,...
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Avoiding Project Management Pitfalls
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Have you ever successfully planned a birthday party, a wedding, a charity event? If so, aside from any embarrassing moments that may have occurred, chances are you've got a handle on the basic...
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The Seven Deadly Myths Of Earned Value Methods In Project Management
January 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
After decades of using and teaching Earned Value Management techniques, we have seen a lot of misinformation about Earned Value, and the advent of the Internet has only made the problem worse....
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The Ideal Project Manager Specification
January 24, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper provides the ideal project manager specification including general requirements they must meet along with the 'Hard Skills', the 'Soft Skills', the attitudes and the behaviours that we...
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The Importance Of Communication In Project Management
January 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
If project staff do not know what their tasks are, or how to accomplish them, then the entire project will grind to a halt. If you do not know what the project staff are (not) doing then you will...
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