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- Use this process to estimate a project's effort hours
- Once you understand the effort that's required for a project, you can assign resources to determine how long the project will take and estimate labor and non-labor costs. Here's a process you can use to estimate the total effort required for your project. by Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- ROI equation for development projects: What not to forget
- When measuring your development project's ROI, it's important to go beyond the basic calculation. Here are a few important costs and returns that you may have overlooked. by Justin James
- 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
- A change management primer for IT consultants
- Determining the ability of the client organization to cope with a major IT project can help consultants find the most appropriate solution. Learn how evaluating the client's roles, resistance, and resilience can help you gauge their capacity for change. by Bob Watkins
- Blog posts 2008-07-04
- Communication is the key to controlling project chaos
- Bill Stronge suggests steps to take during a chaotic project to calm the waters. He also offers advice on how to prevent a future project from spinning out of control. by Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Good consultants know when to be "invisible"
- Sometimes you need to take a backseat to the client team so that they can fully develop the skills they'll need after you're gone. Shannon Kalvar describes becoming an "invisible consultant" in order to allow a client to become the star of the project. by Shannon Kalvar
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Save time and gain efficiency using OPAs
- Organizational Process Assets save you time and money by allowing you to benefit from past best practices. Here's why you should have a common repository for OPAs in your organization. by Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Proper planning of resources essential to successful projects
- With any project, proper planning is the key to success. In my experiences, the area most overlooked in a typical project is the proper planning of the resources and their allocation. Here are tips for getting that part down. by Bill Stronge
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- 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
- 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
- Don't sweat migrating legacy .NET projects to Visual Studio 2008
- I'm always a bit apprehensive when moving to a new development tool or a new version of an existing tool because of the possibility of breaking existing code and projects. Little did I know that migrating to Visual Studio 2008 would be such a breeze. Visual Studio...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Project failures may soon carry legal risks for programmers
- Project disasters come with the territory in IT. Some observers including me pessimistically believe that the majority of IT projects fail to meet their original goals. All too often, "descope and declare victory" is the only possible way to end a project. Part of the problem is that, regardless of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Prepare for a management career through project management
- Whether you're a support tech who wants to take on management responsibility or a developer wanting to take a step toward a management position, the best place to start is often in project management. Project management can build your organization and management skills to prepare you for a future role...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- 10 non-monetary benefits to attract and retain top developers
- When recruiting developers, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that money is what brings in the best and the brightest. After all, developers tend to receive paychecks a bit beefier than other professionals with similar levels of experience and education. But at the end of the day,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Go green with quality management
- Tom Mochal, PMP, winner of the 2005 PMI Distinguished Contribution Award, has been TechRepublic's resident project management mentor for the past five years. He is president of TenStep, Inc., a methodology development, training, and consulting company. This column was co-authored with Andrea Krasnoff, PMP, Director of Consulting Services at TenStep,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Project management responsibility can be elusive
- When two or more people are involved in delivering a technical project, there is an absolute requirement for shared responsibility if the project is to be successful.  This means communication. It also means that understanding of that communication is essential. In other words, you have got to be sure that the message...
- Blog posts 2008-03-06
- 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
- Five steps to enlightened expectations for managing your workload
- Running your own business as an independent consultant can be stressful. There's always more that you should be doing. Besides working directly for your clients, you should also be improving your skills, pursuing new business, blogging and reading blogs especially on TechRepublic, and taking care of business matters....
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
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