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- Start a recovery project to rescue a troubled project
- If a project is big enough to require a formal project turnaround, the first thing that needs to happen is that you have to recognize that the work to recover the troubled project is a project by itself. When a project is in trouble, usually an outside party is...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Project management, troubled project, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Recovery, Roi/Tco, Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Management
- Technical articles 2005-06-07
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- Strategies for turning around a troubled project
- This compact set of articles will give you an overview of how to determine whether a project needs help and how to implement the most effective rescue efforts. Handling a troubled project is a multi-tiered process. First, you must validate that the project is genuinely a disaster...
- Tags: Project, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- Download resources 2005-07-22
- Identify the root causes of problems before starting project rescue
- Since project stakeholders are often emotionally attached to their projects, you may not get unbiased answers when seeking to find the cause of a troubled project. If you have ever been on a troubled project, you know that there can end up being many inter-related problems. One of...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, Project management, Strategy, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Management
- Technical articles 2005-06-14
- Alternatives for a project rescue
- Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing how to rescuetroubled projects. This includes validating that the project is really introuble, creating a recovery project and assessing the troubled project. Afterthe initial project assessment, the project manager should identify alternativesfor turning the project around. There are a couple of options...
- Tags: Tom Mochal
- Technical articles 2005-06-21
- Thailand's Troubled Tax Computerization Project
- In Februrary 1992 the World Bank signed a loan agreement with the Thai government to carry out a large and complex Information Technology IT project in the Revenue Department of Thailand. This was not an e-government application, as the project focussed on back-end computerization without any element of online service...
- Tags: World Bank Group, Tax, Thailand, E-government, Free Trade, Government, Finance
- Case studies
- Salvage a derailed project with these assessment and recovery strategies
- Learn how to turn a troubled project around by using a system for assessing current project status and implementing the steps needed to save it. If you have even a few projects under your belt, odds are good that you've run into some of these signs of...
- Tags: Strategy, Project, Recovery
- Download resources 2005-11-14
- DOWNLOAD: Strategies for turning around a troubled project
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- Tags: download, it management, JodyGilbert, project management, strategy
- Discussion threads 2005-07-22
- Validate whether a project is really in trouble before applying project rescue techniques
- If you believe the statistics, most projects fail. But the definition of "failure" should be something different for each organization. You've all read the stories about the large number of projects that fail. Some reports say that half or more of all projects fail--perhaps as many as...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, technique, tolerance, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Management
- Technical articles 2005-05-31
- 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
- White papers 2005-06-24
- Script Editor (exe)
- Scripting is not only for Web pages. Get rid of the routine work. Let a script do the repeatedly executed tasks for you. Keep the re-usable parts of a script in separate library files. Reference these libraries in your WSF project. Embed project-specific code directly to the WSF file. Put...
- Tags: Script, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Word Processors, Construction, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-04-05
- Initiate, monitor, and manage IT projects without tedious methodologies
- This sample chapter, taken from How to Cheat at IT Project Management, discusses various strategies for managing your IT project. Managing your IT project is much easier when you have a clear vision of the project,developed from your efforts at defining, organizing, and planning your project.This sample...
- Tags: Chapter, Monitor, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Book chapters 2005-11-16
- Sun, Microsoft tout fruits of cooperation
- Evil Empire Expanding?How long before Microsoft makes a bid to buy the troubled Sun and destroy anything good in it?
- Tags: hardware, Microsoft Corp., mnish_news@..., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-05-20
- Dealing with cursed projects
- Everyone loves to gripe about a cursed project, but what can be done to rescue it? Learn more about rescuing problem projects from the scrap heap.Developers can drive themselves crazy fretting over a past project disaster. It's easy to wallow in failure, but spending too long obsessing over problems can...
- Tags: Team management, William T. Kelly, team, team member, project plan
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- Techniques for Project Initiation (Part Two: Project Strategies)
- Once the project manager has outlined the objectives and considered the constraints for the project, it's time to initiate the development of the project strategy. A project strategy is simply how the project objectives are going to be attained. If the term "strategy" hints at a more involved...
- Tags: Technique, Scitor Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Scadex Project Tracker (zip)
- Project Tracker is project management software for small to medium-sized project firms. An extensive database program, Project Tracker has employee, time card, suppliers, purchase, and estimation modules. Fine-tune your project estimates and track progress with our reconciliation reports. Export your estimates and projects to Microsoft Project.
- Tags: Project Tracker, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Project, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2004-11-09
- Does Your Company Need a CPO? (a Case for the Central Project Office and a Chief Project Officer)
- Project Management is one of the fastest growing, widely recognized trends of the last decade. Its recent popularity can be seen in many quarters. Over 50% annual growth in membership in the Project Management Institute is just one sign of this popular movement. Similar growth can be seen in project...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers
- Estimate Task Duration
- Every journey is marked by milestones. In a project schedule, one needs to know whether the project is on target, headed in the right direction, and on time. One can rely on milestones to implement the project plan, prepare it, and project the time it will take. By using a...
- Tags: Project, Microsoft Corp., Project Management, It Operations, It service Management
- Webcasts
- MS Project 20003
- I will shortly be starting a web development project using MS Project 2003. The project is for an IT support comapany.What i would like to know is.Where i can obtain a template to use rather than have to create a project from scratch does anyon
- Tags: ms project 2003, project management, web development, it management, software, JimKlallsoo@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project
- Discussion threads 2006-11-19
- Project Manager to Project Leader? And the Rocky Road Between...
- The "planning" phases of a project involve the crystallizing of project goals, the development of the concepts and technical requirements and planning for implementation. These activities typically require a number of iterations and re-runs to flush out the "customer's needs" and optimize project effectiveness. A definition of project leadership is...
- Tags: Leader, University Of British Columbia, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2002-06-11
- Multi-Site Virtual Project Management
- The Project Management PM paradigm is rapidly shifting due to business globalization and Information Technology IT advances that support distributed and virtual project teams. Traditional PM focuses on a single project at a single location and is more concerned with project inputs and outputs than with project process. This methodology...
- Tags: Project Management Paradigm, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2004-04-01
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