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- Don't be a "prideful" PM consultant
- Too much pride can be a bad thing for project management PM consultants. Is your ego getting in the way of your client's best interest? A TechRepublic member has a wake-up call for you with five characteristics of a puffed-up PM consultant. by Beth Blakely
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Consider Enterprise Environmental Factors when planning IT projects
- Enterprise Environmental Factors EEFs are corporate, environmental, and governmental variables that can determine how you manage certain aspects of a project. Bill Stronge lists examples of common EEFs and offers questions you need to ask at the start of each project. by Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Manage project time requirements with these methods
- If you're trying to get a handle on project time requirements, these project management methods will put you in a better position to come away with a plan that you can explain and execute. by Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- How to successfully execute the scope management phase of a project
- There's very little that you can do before the start of a project without first defining the project scope. It's an interesting process to go through if you're used to the type of organization that many of us face these days. Executing the Scope Management phase of your project will...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Project Metrics: Tips for doing Earned Value Analysis
- Being able to determine the success of a project seems to get more complex the larger the initiative and broader the project scope. A large project may be partially successful because you were able to deliver the agreed upon scope of work but maybe you missed on the projects duration...
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Some benefits and drawbacks of Microsoft Project
- According to the Microsoft's website "Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively." While I don't disagree with their statement, I have worked with many project managers who never...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- A primer on projects, programs, and portfolios
- Tom Mochal answers a question about project management terminology from a TechRepublic member. Question I have worked at companies where a program manager was assigned to manage all major development. In these situations, the project manager had little authority and was often relegated to administrative duties,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Project management screw-up number 1: Failing to address the right problem
- In his book The Project Management Advisor: 18 Major Project Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at the Pass, Lonnie Pacelli talks about the most common pitfalls encountered in any project. Each chapter of the book covers one common pitfall in a like format: - "How...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Don't wait to address performance problems on a project
- Most project managers have had to deal with performance problems on a project at one point in their careers. Such issues are usually uncomfortable adventures for the project manager. This uncomfortable feeling usually has two causes: The project manager is usually not the functional manager of the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Project management skills enhance IT career
- One IT job role that is continually stressed in the results of TechRepublic's 2008 Skills and Salary Report is project leader. It comes in at number four on the list of job functions by salary, and the author of the survey says that the IT field is seeing more demand...
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- Supervise larger projects with a schedule management plan
- As your project grows larger, your project management processes need to become more rigorous and structured. (The reverse is also true: Processes should be simpler for smaller projects.) Normally, the process used to update and manage a project schedule is pretty clear. For example, you might receive...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- Three tricks for dealing with the holidays as a consulting project manager
- Travel costs have skyrocketed. No one is available to finish off those last ugly bits of work before the budgets run out. Everyone seems to want to hang out with their families, generally in inaccessible places, rather than burn the midnight oil finishing off our wildly out of...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Three ways project managers give in to threats
- We live in a corporate environment and indeed a social one where the fear of personal, financial, or political harm counts for more than the honest calculation of risk. Economists are slowly starting to key onto this with their calculations of “perceived riskâ€; priests, theologians, and mothers everywhere probably...
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- 10 signs that you aren't cut out to be a project manager
- You've all seen top 10 lists of the best traits of a project manager or the top 10 skills of a project manager. However, project management is not for everyone. Many people have some of the traits to be a good project manager, but they also have many traits that...
- Blog posts 2007-09-19
- How to leverage a project assistant's unintentional role as project archivist
- Today, I'm going to talk about a resource most of us don't have the opportunity to utilize often enough. The project assistant, a combination secretary, record-keeper, and general project minder who is probably not a project manager himself but who by dent of effort knows as much as any...
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Is project management a language rather than a discipline?
- Project management is, in theory at least, a common language spoken by facilities, IT, operations, and the company's management group. This common language allows individuals with very different experiences of the same business to communicate logically about expected outcomes and activities. Like all languages it relies heavily on...
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Outsourcing a project does not relieve you of responsibility
- The outsourcing of project work is more common today than ever. But even though you outsource the work, you can't completely outsource your obligation to make sure the project is progressing smoothly. If all goes well with the outsourcer, you don't have much work to do. But many times the...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Setting up priorities in an "A" world
- Lack of priority information is the death of management and the bane of leadership. It is also the single most common problem project managers run into when trying to filter activities into a critical path. The sophistry behind "They are all As" doesn't even begin to merit a...
- Blog posts 2007-08-11
- What's so hard about sticking to the plan?
- Have you ever had someone look at and ask "So, what's the hardest part of your job?" I have, more than once. Honestly, I wish they wouldn't. The things I find hardest are simply not what I would like to admit to. The hardest of those, by far, is probably...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Technical Project Management and "The Shadow" of IT
- "Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts of computers? The TPM knows!" This line, paraphrased from pulp hero The Shadow, is not just a bit of melodrama. Well, okay, yes it is. But it is also a brutal, unfortunate truth about our work as technical project managers. Despite centralized...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
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