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Use advanced roles to focus on specialized work in larger projects

As your project gets larger, it's important to allocate people into more specialized roles. These specialized roles help to make sure that important aspects of the project success have more focus. Understanding who is filling the standard roles of clients, project manager, sponsor, and team members is generally...

Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, large project, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Project Manager, Role, Librarian, Steering Committee, Financial Planning, Team Management, Financial Services, Security, Management, Finance

Technical articles 2006-09-19

Use an initial Discovery Project to define very large projects

Estimating Large ProjectsI have found that most management want to know first how much a large project may cost before they agree to any project funding. They are willing to pay for a discovery type project, as the article describes, however, the article does not give any real-life examples or...

Tags: Discovery, Estimating Large Projects, it management, katiehoke@..., large project, Project

Discussion threads 2005-03-24

Additional Resources

Problem with a Project Server, the size its too large

Im worked like a Project Manager, and sometimes, some of my projects files conected trough Project Server get too large, could anynone tell me, why???? PD, i do know that when there's a circular reference it happens, but most of the times i don't know why exactly//

Tags: grojas@..., Project Server

Discussion threads 2007-06-26

Use an initial Discovery Project to define very large projects

Before a project actually starts, you must spend an appropriate amount of time defining the work and building a workplan schedule. For a small project, it may only take a few hours to complete this upfront work. A medium sized project might take 20 - 40 to define and plan....

Tags: Discovery, Project, Project Definition, Tom Mochal

Technical articles 2005-03-22

Clarify project roles with this simple responsibility matrix

In a large project, you may have many people with some degree of responsibility for completing certain deliverables. It might be just one person writing a document and one person approving it. But it's often more complicated than that, with several people having a hand in the creation and others...

Tags: Clarify, Tom Mochal, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Tools & templates 2006-06-08

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Increase Large Capital Project Efficiency Through Improved Project Management and Collaboration

Managing the risk of large-scale capital projects can be a balancing act of immense proportions. From meeting stakeholder demands and regulatory requirements, to complying with environmental and consumer pressures, executives must carefully direct enterprise projects to maximize returns and minimize risks. The Project Group's Large Capital Project Efficiency Solution provides...

Tags: Risk, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Project Group, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts

The Project Viewer Manifesto: The Wisdom of Significant Cost Savings and a Smarter Tool for Your Users

With the emergence and acceptance of the Enterprise Project Management EPM model, many organizations are standardizing on project management tools and methodologies. For a large number of companies, this involves purchasing volume licenses of Microsoft Project. Two problems arise: first, many users don't need the full functionality offered by Microsoft...

Tags: Cost Savings, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Steelray Software, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

White papers 2005-07-07

MSF Project Management Discipline V. 1.1

Microsoft Solutions Framework MSF has a distributed team approach to project management that improves accountability and allows a great range of scalability from small projects to very large, complex projects. This paper describes how the distributed team approach works and explains how project managers relate to the MSF team model....

Tags: Team, Microsoft Solutions Framework, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2002-06-01

Project management software review: Project-XL

Microsoft Project many be the benchmark in project management software, but you can find effective open source and shareware alternatives. This Business Tech Review profiles the Project-XL project management solution. This Excel-based solution allows project managers to produce a Gantt chart and track a project's budget and allocated resources. As...

Tags: Shareware, Software, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Download resources 2005-04-15

ConceptDraw Project Mac 3 (Mac)

ConceptDraw Project 3 is a unique program, designed to help successfully plan and keep track of any number of projects simultaneously. Working in business means there's often a need to work on several projects at the same time, each with a different focus and limited resources. With the help of...

Tags: Project, Apple Macintosh, Computer Systems Odessa, ConceptDraw Project 3, Microsoft Project, Productivity, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-02-06

Spartan Controls: Leading the Way in Process-Control Project Management

Spartan Controls serves the process-control industry with quality products, technical expertise, after-sales support, on-site consultation, service, and training. The larger the project, the more difficult it was to manage the various versions of project documents and ensure availability of the latest versions. And when companies started limiting the size of...

Tags: eProject Inc., Spartan Controls, CAD, E-mail, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Software, Online Communications, Human Resources

Case studies

SharedPlan Pro 5.1 (Windows)

Project planning's not as hard as it looks as long as you have the right tools. SharedPlan's suite of project planning and management tools includes desktop software. SharedPlan Pro is the next member of the SharedPlan product family and delivers Microsoft project import, subproject import and export, network diagram and...

Tags: Project, Gantt Chart, Microsoft Windows, SharedPlan Software, SharedPlan Pro, Microsoft Project, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-07

Remove old Map in MS Project

I have assumed responsibility for an on-going large project. The project is exported to Excel for a number of reasons. I have noticed in doing this there are several "old" Maps not being used. Does anyone know how to remove these old Maps?

Tags: Map, robert.key@..., project management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project

Q&A 2006-08-31

Establish cost accounts to manage large budgets

Perhaps talk to the accountants?Tom,I think you are correct in that a budget should be broken down, and that it is difficult to manage one large pot of money, however I think before a project manager makes up their own accounts, they should be speaking to the company accountants.The accountants...

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Discussion threads 2005-08-10

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 expect during the audit process. by Tom Mochal

Tags: Project, Auditor, Audit, Project Manager, Tom Mochal, Financial Accounting, Finance

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Project Management Using Event Chain Methodology

Any projects are affected by a large number of events risks, which can significantly change the course of a project. These events may form groups of related events or event chains. The paper discusses a proposed methodology of modeling the software project using event chains. The event chains methodology can...

Tags: Project Management, Event, Methodology, Modeling, Research & Development, Business Operations

White papers 2006-01-23

Do I Need a Project Manager?

As project managers we assume everyone sees a need for a professionally trained or experienced project manager on every project. It is sometimes a shock to find that non project people see a project manager as an unnecessary overhead. Often we need to justify why a project manager should be...

Tags: Project Manager, Project Perfect

White papers 2005-06-24

Broad Based Project Specs.....

Hello Everyone,I just got my foot in the door for a very large upcoming project. It is for a not-for-profit company that is going to be rennovating and moving into a LARGE building. As a professional courtesy I have agreed to be there telecom/data consultant pro bono with plans of...

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed

It should be noted that the background of author Gerry Kendall is as a consultant, strategic planner and public speaker, while Steve Rollins's interest is in Enterprise Program/Project Management Office/Project Office startups and improvements. The focus of both authors is on the information systems/information technology sector projects in large functional...

Tags: AEW Services, Project Portfolio Management, ROI, Roi/Tco, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Managerial Accounting, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2005-08-22

ConceptDraw Project 3 (Windows)

ConceptDraw Project is a unique program, designed to help successfully plan and keep track of any number of projects simultaneously. Working in business means there's often a need to work on several projects, each with a different focus and limited resources. With the help of ConceptDraw Project it's easy to...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Computer Systems Odessa, ConceptDraw Project, Microsoft Project, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-02-02