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- Using A PMO To Achieve Results In Your Agency
- Government agencies continually strive to produce better results. With regular mandates and quarterly score keeping by the President's Management Agenda, agencies are constantly working to become more efficient and better spenders of taxpayer dollars. Distressingly, recent surveys have found that half of all projects exceed budget, are completed past scheduled...
- White papers 2006-10-25
- 21 Project Management Success Tips
- 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 - changing technologies and unachievable demands from unreasonable people. Project management is people management, technology management, business management, risk management, and expectation management. It's...
- White papers 2008-05-30
- Building The Project Firing Squad
- 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 successful execution of projects: non - recurring, limited duration activities designed around completing a defined task. As organisations...
- White papers 2008-06-12
- How To Deliver Project Status
- 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 and verbal. When you give status in presentation format, you have a reference document that you are reviewing with a group...
- White papers 2008-06-06
- How To Report Status On A Project
- 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 reporting means that managers are fully informed of your projects health and overall direction without having to get involved themselves....
- White papers 2008-06-09
- The Problem With IT Project Management
- 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 into a morass of complexity referred to as the "IT rat's nest". Into this environment of IT complexity, the business continues to impose their...
- White papers 2008-07-14
- Distinguishing Portfolio Management, Programme Management And Project Management
- 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 programme. In addition, sometimes project portfolio and programme are mistakenly used interchangeably. This paper is intended to...
- White papers 2008-07-29
- The Phased Approach To Project Management Implementation
- 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 organisation. The goal of this phase is to successfully mobilise your organisation, remediate any current at-risk projects, and set the stage for the next two...
- White papers 2008-09-23
- Useful Techniques To Fine-Tune Your Project Schedule
- 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 best time for him to be creative as he identifies the best strategy in completing the project. Given...
- White papers 2008-10-08
- Project Management Starts With A Capital C
- 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, especially since many of us are faced with more and more virtual teams operating around the globe. Start your projects on the right foot,...
- White papers 2008-05-20
- PRINCE2 And The Project Management Board
- 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 well as to manage the time schedule of the whole project. It is headed by the Project...
- White papers 2008-04-17
- 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
- Helping Project Teams Succeed
- Projects will be successful when the right environmental conditions exist. It is important to ensure that project estimating and project selection are working well and done carefully. Just as important is finding the right team and providing the necessary resources. Always encourage good practice in planning. Plans are used to...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- What Is Earned Value?
- Earned Value provides the project manager with an objective way of measuring performance and predicting future outcomes. This can enable him/her to report progress with greater confidence and highlight any overrun earlier. This in turn enables the management team to make cost and time allocation decisions earlier than would otherwise...
- White papers 2005-04-05
- What Is Benefits Realisation?
- You've delivered the project on time, within budget, the customer has signed it off and you've completed your end project report. The end! The project is completed, time to move on, right? Wrong. You can't just expect the benefits to automatically drop out of your project with no effort. Many...
- White papers 2003-08-18
- Avoiding Project Failure: It's Not Rocket Science
- It is true that every project is unique; however the causes of project failure are usually restricted to a few specific areas. Once we know what these are we can take steps to minimise the chance of problems in these areas and increase the likelihood of success. Don't become the...
- White papers 2005-08-13
- Do You Know Where Your Project Is?
- 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 progress along the way, and taking an unflinching look at actual results. You might be planning projects that your resources cannot accommodate,...
- White papers 2009-03-22
- Developing A New Project Scorecard
- 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. Most companies see the need to use scorecards in order to assess and measure how corporate efforts contribute to...
- White papers 2008-03-03
- 17 "Must Ask" Questions For Planning Successful Projects
- 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 can expose the uncertain aspects of your project, and thereby help to avoid expensive surprises...
- White papers 2008-03-16
- Project Management Of A Global Team
- 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 decentralised management of business projects is becoming more of the norm than the exception in the...
- White papers 2008-10-13
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