A big part of successful project management is the ability to stay to calm in the storm of activities and issues. The relationship with the customer is one of the biggest sources of stress and conflict for a project manager. Dan the Project Manager Man tells the story of his adventure with an upset customer. HeContinue reading “Stay Calm and Improve Your Reputation”
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Six Practices For Project Success
CIO.com outlines six practices from Project Assurance. Identify the real issues — Understand the context and analyze the issues objectively. Set realistic time frames — Monitor dates in the schedule, adjust dates when the schedule changes and remember to check for effects on the dates of related deliverables. Align the work streams — Watch the dependenciesContinue reading “Six Practices For Project Success”
Use Pick and Mix To Manage Your Project
Every project is unique. A project manager needs to recognize what is unique about the project they are managing and adapt their project management to the uniqueness of the effort. The wheel exists. A project manager should have a selection of wheels to choose from and the tools to adjust them. Pick your project managementContinue reading “Use Pick and Mix To Manage Your Project”
How To Plan A Project With One Question
“What’s next?” is a question to ask others and a question to ask yourself when planning a project. Ask it and keep on asking it after every answer. String the next actions together and you have a complete project. What’s next? If you cannot identify a next action, the problem is not correctly or completely defined. If youContinue reading “How To Plan A Project With One Question”
Sell The Methodology When Selling Your Internal Project
When the consultants come in to do a project, they always present their methodology, roles, communication methods, change management, the deliverables, and the criteria for sign-off. They include this in their contracts and it guarantees they get paid. When the internal project management team present a project, many of them treat it as an another executiveContinue reading “Sell The Methodology When Selling Your Internal Project”
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