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Five tips for getting your project back on budget
If you discover your project is starting to exceed budget, you'll want to act right away before things get out of hand. Tom Mochal offers some tips for reining in costs.
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Five tips for managing a dispersed project team
IT leaders who oversee teams of remote workers have some obstacles to overcome. Tom Mochal offers some practical advice for successfully managing a distributed workforce.
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Five tips for building a work breakdown structure
Tom Mochal offers some practical advice to save you time and rework on your next work breakdown structure.
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10 things you should do to successfully manage your workplan
Like much of project management, updating the workplan requires discipline and habit. See how these steps can help you stay on top of the process.
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10 best practices for successful project management
The right mix of planning, monitoring, and controlling can make the difference in completing a project on time, on budget, and with high quality results. These guidelines will help...
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Use Monte Carlo analysis for sophisticated project scheduling
Monte Carlo analysis can help you determine multiple possible outcomes of projects and tasks as part of your project management work. Project management guru Tom Mochal provides a ...
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Create a risk contingency budget using Expected Monetary Value
Tom Mochal explains how the Expected Monetary Value technique provides a formula for determining the right amount of budget to apply to the risk contingency budget.
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Turning around a dysfunctional project team
Taking over a challenging project is difficult enough. Throw in a disgruntled team, and you have other issues to consider. Tom Mochal offers a member advice on how he could become ...
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Top five reasons organizations fail at project management
Why are so many organizations still so bad at project management? An expert ponders this question through many consulting and training engagements and ranks his top five reasons be...
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10 ways to get a slipping project back on track
Plenty of things can derail a project plan: underestimated tasks, departing staff, misallocated resources. Here are some practical techniques that can correct the direction of a pr...
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Understand the PM's role in procurement management
In most organizations, the project manager should understand the basics of procurement management. Learn about the six processes within the Project Procurement Management knowledge...
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Agree on balanced metrics to measure project success
Project management guru Tom Mochal advises that you and your client agree on the right metrics before the start of a project so that clients will get what they want.
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Validate project status with periodic audits
If you're working on a large project, it's a good idea to get an auditor involved to make sure the project is progressing as expected. Tom Mochal lists the seven steps that you can...
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Estimate a project's bottom line using top-down techniques
There's more than one way to determine whether a project will be worth the work before you commit to it. In this Q&A, Tom Mochal offers a TechRepublic member options and opinions o...
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Five tips for building a Work Breakdown Structure
Tom Mochal offers techniques that will save you time and rework on your next Work Breakdown Structure.
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Consolidate all project management deliverables in the project plan
A project plan is the name given to all of the project management documents used during the project. Find out the specifics of what the project plan entails.
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Top five reasons organizations fail at project management
Why are many organizations still so bad at project management? After pondering this question on many consulting and training engagements, Tom Mochal has come up with his top five r...
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Use a pilot project to confirm estimates and lessen risks
Tom Mochal illustrates how project managers can use a pilot project to document common procedures, verify estimates, and save time and money.
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Use this process to estimate a project's effort hours
Once you understand the effort that's required for a project, you can assign resources to determine how long the project will take and estimate labor and non-labor costs. Here's a ...
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See effect of dependent risk by using a decision tree
Certain risks may only appear as a result of actions taken as a result of managing another risk. Project management expert Tom Mochal says that is when you want to use a decision t...
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Use a Fishbone Diagram to attack complex problems
One technique for analyzing complex problems that appear to have many interrelated causes is called a "cause and effect" diagram or a Fishbone Diagram. Here are examples of how thi...
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A primer on projects, programs, and portfolios
Where does program management end and project management begin? The answer depends on the roles assigned at your company. Project management veteran Tom Mochal explains with this l...
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Use prototyping to visualize project requirements
Prototypes are built early in the development lifecycle, and they're used to provide valuable insight into the look, feel, and general workflow of an application. Here's what creat...
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Don't wait to address performance problems on a project
Managing people is one of the core responsibilities of a project manager. It's also one that's uncomfortable for many. Dealing with problem people is one of the difficult aspects o...
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Go green with quality management
It's possible that in the future it will make sense to establish "environmental management" as one of the foundational skills for project managers. However, in the meantime, the qu...
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Master these 10 processes to sharpen your project management skills
The bigger and more complex a project gets, the more you need formal processes and techniques to effectively manage the work. Project management expert Tom Mochal explains the purp...
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Don't fall prey to these false project requirements
If you could ask your clients about requirements and know they were responding with exactly everything they needed, gathering requirements would be a piece of cake. However, in the...
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Supervise larger projects with a schedule management plan
As your project grows larger, your project management processes need to become more rigorous and structured. On a larger project, you may need to plan ahead to understand and commu...
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Use these interviewing techniques to gather project requirements
Use these interviewing techniques to gather project requirements
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Align green project management with ISO 14000
ISO 14000 are voluntary, international standards that focus on environmental management. Learn more about ISO 14000, and discover why you should incorporate green project managemen...