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- 10 midyear resolutions for project managers
- Are you happy with the way your projects have been going so far this year or are you running into too many obstacles and delays? With 2007 already half gone, now's a good time to take stock and decide which objectives and improvement goals will help round out the year...
- Tags: Project Management, Project, Sponsor, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Understand the role of the sponsor in scope change management
- Project Sponsor and Scope ChangeOn the basis of 20 years experience of Project Management, I would fully support the comments in Tom Mochal's article. It in turn means that having 'the right sponsor' or one suitably briefed as to role is very important.One of the more practical modules I have...
- Tags: sponsor, project management, Project Sponsor, Spearwall, it management, change management
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
- Understand the role of the sponsor in scope change management
- When you're managing scope on your project, keep the following three items in mind as it relates to the sponsor. Many problems related to scope change management are based on not understanding the role of a sponsor in this important project management process. In general, the sponsor...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Project management, change management, Project Management Newsletter, Change Request, Sponsor, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Technical articles 2006-06-13
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- Canadiancitizenship (zip)
- The software contains offline forms and online assessment forms guide to sponsorship, application to Sponsor and Undertaking, Sponsorship Agreement, Sponsorship, Evaluation, Sponsor Questionnaire, Use of a Representative, Medical Condition Statement, Application for Permanent Residence, Schedule 1 Background/Declaration, and Additional Family Information.
- Tags: Software, Assessment, Form, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-07-13
- DOWNLOAD: Salvage a project with these assessment and recovery strategies
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-10878-5951853.htmlAfter you take a look at this download, please post your feedback, ideas for improvements, or further thoughts on this topic.Thanks,Who are we saving it for?I ask this simple question because lack of sponsor commitment is the hall mark of many failing projects. Often this is the result of...
- Tags: george sifri, it management, JodyGilbert, project management, strategy
- Discussion threads 2005-11-14
- 10 New Year's resolutions for project managers
- The chance to make a fresh start on enhancing your project management skills is right around the corner. PM expert Tom Mochal gets things rolling with this list of self-improvement goals for the new year. How was your PM track record in 2005? Were you happy with...
- Tags: Project, Certification, PMP Certification, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Quality, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Business Operations
- Download resources 2005-12-13
- Use standard roles to avoid confusion on projects
- One of the important responsibilities of the project manager is make sure you know who is fulfilling the roles on your project. This column describes some of the common roles on projects. All projects have people that perform different roles and responsibilities. On small projects, understanding the roles...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project management, Team management, deliverable, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Project Manager, Role, Executive Sponsor, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Technical articles 2006-08-22
- Use milestones to check on the health of your project
- Milestones provide an opportunity to validate the current state of the project. A milestone is a scheduling event that signifies the completion of a major deliverable or a set of related deliverables. A milestone, by definition, has zero duration and no effort. A milestone is a ...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, Project management, Tools & Techniques, SECURITY, health care, workplan, Project Management Newsletter, Milestone, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Corporate Communications, It Operations, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Marketing, Management
- Technical articles 2006-04-04
- Learn the secret of effective scope change management
- One of the conflicts project managers face is that they don't want to say no when someone asks for a scope change. Here's a trick that takes away the need to do that. Project scope refers to the box that defines the work of your project. The boundaries...
- Tags: Leadership, Tom Mochal, change management, Project Management Newsletter, Project Manager, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Technical articles 2005-04-05
- Follow this simple scope change management process
- Tom Mochal provides a simple scope change process that you can use on your project. Scope is defined at a high level by describing the boundaries and deliverables of your project. You add more detail to that definition through the gathering of your business requirements. Once these...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, change management, change request, scope change request, Scope Change Log, Project Management Newsletter
- Technical articles 2006-09-12
- Advice on moving from UK to US
- My family and I want to move from the UK to the US. I have heard that there is a shortgage of skilled IT personnel in the US - so I should be able to find a job there.However,1) Is this still true?2) how best to find a job -...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, markbagus, job
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Use these techniques to control small scope change requests
- You have all heard the mantra of scope change management --make sure that all scope change requests get approved by the sponsor orsponsor designee. This should be obvious for large scope change requests.However, it's not always practical to gain individual approval for every five-,ten- or twenty-hour scope change request. However,...
- Tags: change request, Tom Mochal, contingency, technique
- Technical articles 2005-04-12
- Use the initial project justification to measure the business value of a project
- Here's what to do if you're asked to measure the business value of a project once it is finished. In my opinion, one of the holy grails that companies are searching for is an easy way to determine the business value of projects. The bad news is...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, business-value, business benefit, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Business, News, Management
- Technical articles 2005-12-20
- Assess project success with a project scorecard
- When a project ends, many project teams struggle to determine whether they were successful. Knowing how a project ended in terms of its deadline and budget tells only part of the story. If a project team delivers a poor-quality product on time and within budget, it still should not be...
- Tags: Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2003-03-03
- Project sponsors can just say no to scope change requests
- If you are a project manager, there are times when you don't want to say no to a change request. Instead, encourage the project sponsor to do your dirty work.What is your response when you receive a request to make a scope change for a project? Do you find it...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Tom Mochal, Juan, change request
- Technical articles 2000-10-24
- Survey by postmasterdirect.com
- I received an email asking me to take a survey, but the link was not in plain English. . .Does Tech Republic sponsor such a survey, or is this a hoax or scam? ? ?
- Tags: dgjones@..., survey
- Discussion threads 2006-12-29
- Get sponsor, not users, to approve scope changes
- End users are the most important "customers" for your project, right? Well, not really. While you're hoping to make your end users happy, your most important constituent is the project sponsor. Here's what can happen when you don't keep that in mind.Each week, project management veteran Tom Mochal provides valuable...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Meg
- Technical articles 2001-08-27
- Utilize a scope freeze during the drive toward implementation
- Managing scope effectively does not mean that you turn down all scope change requests, but there comes a time when there has to be a freeze. Managing scope effectively does not mean that you turn down all scope change requests. The art of managing scope effectively is to...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Project Management Newsletter, Team, Change Request, Problem, Freeze, Team Management, Management
- Technical articles 2005-12-03
- Gain project approvals from the right stakeholders
- Before your project starts execution, you should have created a Project Charter, project schedule, and the Project Management Procedures. These are the three documents that will guide the subsequent execution of the project. Of course, these three documents are not developed in isolation. They need to be created with, and...
- Tags: Project, Tom Mochal
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- Use these techniques when you have difficulty properly defining a project
- With many projects, especially large ones, the client has a vision of what the results will be, but cannot yet articulate this vision into concrete objectives and deliverables. Here's what you do in a case like that. Sometimes the project manager places too high an expectation on the...
- Tags: Strategy, Tom Mochal, technique, major stakeholder, vision, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Management
- Technical articles 2005-03-29
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