Project Management News

• 10 Steps to Project Success
  10 Steps to Project Success By Michael Greer Step Results of Successful Performance Define the project concept, then get support and approval. A series of conversations, brainstorming sessions, and other formal or informal discussions about the project concept with your supervisor and key people whom you hope will provide project support An approved Project […]
• Facilitating a Requirements Validation Meeting with Ease!
  Ensuring that a requirements document is accurate, complete and fully supported by key stakeholders can be critically important. Unfortunately, requirements validation sessions can be protracted and challenging. Oftentimes, the goal of the session is to gain agreement among various stakeholders on a lengthy, detailed requirements document. This can certainly […]
• Can Projects Really Be Successful?
  A well known and very vocal Project Management instructor made a statement about Government Projects always being late and over budget. Then making a not so subtle suggestion that his competency based assessment approach, versus the PMI approach to certification, is solution to better project management.Man, do I wish that was the case. Here’s my hands […]
• Project Management Should Not Be Written in Stone
  Project Management Should Not Be Written in Stone By Chris LeCompte Finding something that works — whether it is a process, methodology, or system — can be a defining moment. It means we have succeeded in our hard work to develop an approach that is in alignment with our core beliefs. If the quality of outputs increases [...] [...]
• Agile2010 - Part 4 - Why you suck at offshoring even with agile
  Needless to say that this is the biggest challenge I faced so far in my career life.. To speak at agile 2010 conference for the 1st time.Everything sounded challenging form the day 1, first to be one of the few selected speakers out of closer to 1000 proposals, 2nd it was in US, 3rd, it was a pair presentation which I have never used to do before, 4th I knew […]
• Baselines: A Valuable Tool in Life and Projects
  Baselines: A Valuable Tool in Life and Projects By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation We’re all very familiar with baselines in life. We may not call them by that name, but they’re all around us. They tell us when we should change the oil in our cars, how much we can afford to spend on vacation, how [...] [...]
• Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill(3/3)
  A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep: Last time we introduced this series and outlined the focus for the topic of green project management using the Deepwater Horizon disaster as motivation. In this post, we’ll cover how we’d work ‘green’ project considerations into the Project Charter, Project Scope Management, Project Integration M […]
• Think ‘End State’: Handing Over a Project to a Service Environment
  Whenever you need to introduce a new service, which typically is intended to take the form of a process, you need to create a project. This is much like building a bridge, setting up a new bank brankch, or implementing an IT project. There is an idea for a project end state, and the project is getting to that end state. All of this is particularly applicable […]
• How Do You Project Confidence Leading Meetings When You’re Really Not?
  Oftentimes we’re thrust into situations where we’re expected to lead a meeting, and we may lack the confidence we think we should have. Maybe we’re not confident because we’re new to the organisation, possibly we’re not as knowledgeable about the subject matter, or maybe we’re not as senior as some of the attendees. There […]
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