Project Communications Planning: How Project Managers Keep the Project Team (and Stakeholders) Aligned
Learn how project managers plan and manage project communications, choose tools, define requirements, and maintain alignment across stakeholders.
What Is Scope Planning?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide identifies four processes involved in the overall project definition process: project initiation, scope planning, scope definition, and scope verification. Our last post covered project initiation. This...
What Is Project Initiation and How Do You Initiate a Project?
The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide identifies four processes involved in the overall project definition process: project initiation, scope planning, scope definition, and scope verification. This post will focus on the first...
The 5 Ws of Project Management
Just like journalism, successful project management answers five Ws: Who, what, when, why, and with what money. (As you can see, we have changed out “Where” for the much more important business question: budget.)...
Do You Really Need a Project Charter?
A project charter is a project definition document that answers the question “How is the project going to get done?” A good project charter functions as a project management execution plan template. Every project...
How to Define a Project
Project definition is the process of documenting key parameters for a project. A good project definition document answers the following questions: Kinds of Project Definition Documents Different organizations use different names for their definition...
Resource Management: The Keystone of Project Management and Portfolio Management
Organizations are beginning to recognize the comprehensive power that Resource Management has for addressing how to manage projects and project portfolios. What makes Resource Management so powerful is that it lies at the heart...
4 Challenges When Managing the Project Plan and Schedule during Execution
Project execution is where the rubber meets the road. Some organizations even have a dedicated project execution manager for this critical part of the process. For a project manager, the brunt of project execution...