When to Kill an Unsuccessful Project
Clinging to sunk projects opens the door to true, catastrophic failure. A willingness to kill unsuccessful projects helps organizations remain focused on achieving their strategic goals.
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...
Driving Engagement through (Positive) Attention
The Hawthorne Time and Motion studies were some of the most important studies on team management. They were conducted to see what makes people productive. The environment was changed to make it bright, cheery,...
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...
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...