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- Managing Projects Effectively
- Project management is a technique used to organize work into separate, definable units to ease the coordination of different tasks. Although its earliest roots can be traced to the military and the construction industry, NASA's legendary achievement of landing Neil Armstrong on the moon popularized the technique. Since then, Governments...
- Articles 2007-11-28
- Keeping On Top of Project Management
- A project can be an awkward beast to manage. Because the purpose of a project is to bring about change, the context is often unsettled and uncertain. As a result, unexpected issues tend to crop up—changes occur and mistakes are made. An effective project manager must accept that the unexpected...
- Articles 2007-10-08
- How To Start A Project
- It is rare, unfortunately, to have project managers involved from the very beginning of the initiation phase of projects. The early involvement from the business point of view would be of an enormous advantage to any project manager, as they would have better understanding and appreciation of the problems and...
- White papers 2009-02-19
- Why Project Management Matters
- This is of course not to say that the practice of Project Management isn't widely appreciated in many organizations. Indeed, a large number of companies have implemented Project Management Offices, the Project Management Institute is exploding in popularity, and it certainly seems that the number of Project Management openings out-numbers...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Project Scheduling And Resource Levelling
- 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 better at scheduling our projects and leveling our finite...
- White papers 2008-04-30
- How To Develop A Systematic Approach To Prioritizing All Projects
- There is a need for organizations to link their projects back to their corporate strategies and to train project sponsors to increase the likelihood that projects will survive shifting organizational priorities. Project Management Offices and project managers must understand how each project contributes to achieving corporate goals - which should...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Future Of Quality And Project Management
- Often, the project manager is faced with an issue that is not easily resolved by theory or the knowledge acquired from formal training. These types of problems are usually not of a technical nature and more often tend to be ethical or human resource issues. The satisfactory answer is often...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- The Strategic Importance Of The Enterprise Project Management Office
- There is a need for organizations to link their projects back to their corporate strategies and to train project sponsors to increase the likelihood that projects will survive shifting organizational priorities. Project Management Offices and project managers must understand how each project contributes to achieving corporate goals - which should...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Why Smart Companies Are Investing In Project Management Now
- In large part the Project Manager's role has traditionally been seen in terms of planning and control. While that is true at one level, the Project Management role is also about orchestrating the team's decision making. By establishing the team, defining processes, planning roles and responsibilities, and facilitating meetings, the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Maximizing Your Project Influence
- Most project managers are used to a project plan that has a series of tasks laid out for the entire project, listing task durations, responsibility assignments, and dependencies. Plans are developed in this manner based on the assumption that the Project Manager, hopefully along with the team, can predict up...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Formal And Informal Aspects Of Project Management
- People who are proficient at formal project management may not have outstanding interpersonal skills. Similarly, good informal project managers may be impatient with the effort involved in creating plans and revising them as a project unfolds. Formal project management can be learned, and it appears that informal project management cannot...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Project Management Phases
- The first phase of a project is the initiation phase. During this phase a business problem or opportunity is identified and a business case providing various solution options is defined. Next, a feasibility study is conducted to investigate whether each option addresses the business problem and a final recommended solution...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- 14 Key Principles For PM Success
- Project managers must focus on three dimensions of project success. Project success means completing all project deliverables on time, within budget, and to a level of quality that is acceptable to sponsors and stakeholders. The project manager must keep the team's attention focused on achieving these broad goals. This paper...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Choosing Software Wisely: The New Testament
- The Project Manager is responsible for managing the project to meet the project objectives. A project is successful only if it meets all of it objectives completely. Most Project Managers do not realize that they are lacking knowledge of what good Project Management involves and why it is so important....
- White papers 2007-06-25
- Intelligent Disobedience: The Difference Between Good And Great Project Managers
- The job of a Project Manager PM is often described as managing the triple constraint: scope, resources and schedule. In reality, this represents the goal of the PM. The PM must manage the production of the defined deliverables scope, while being mindful of both the cost as well as caring...
- White papers 2004-11-03
- Be A Smart Project Manager
- The key to being a smart project manager is to remember how you are going to manage your project, to know what to do if it does not work, and to win and keep the support of all of the project stakeholders. Manage the expectations of the customer, the users...
- White papers 2006-11-02
- Project Planning: The First Line Of Defence For Preventing Failed Projects
- Every year thousands of projects are completed over budget, out of scope and past deadline. Still, with each passing year, project managers continue to rush into projects without due diligence in defining the project and creating a plan for project execution. By lightly addressing these critical components they are, in...
- White papers 2007-01-24
- 6 Steps To Successful Schedules
- Creating a comprehensive schedule is one of the more difficult activities that project managers face. Schedule creation is often considered more art than science, and results often support this. What is often more frustrating is that team members often find themselves on one team with a project manager that creates...
- White papers 2008-02-20
- Managing Multiple Projects: Avoiding Project Overload
- What is the maximum number of projects a project manager should run concurrently before he/she is overloaded? The more balls a project manager has in the air at any one time, the more likely it is he/she will drop one. It's impossible to say what the maximum number of projects...
- White papers 2008-01-06
- A Word (Or Two) On Quality
- In the world of interactive project management the promise of quality has become cliché. Quality is sometimes seen as an incidental to each client delivery, as opposed to an independent, critical phase of the delivery. Because quality control is commonly compressed at the tail end of a project, the overall...
- White papers 2007-10-30
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