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...
What Is the Critical Path and How Do you Calculate It?
One of the fundamental approaches to project scheduling is the Critical Path Method (CPM). In order to use the CPM, project managers need to understand what the critical path is and how to calculate...
What Is the Most Overlooked Risk in Enterprise Organizations?
This article first appeared in UpJourney. You can read the full piece here. Hope is not a strategy. Risk Management is. Risk management is a framework that allows you to identify risks, evaluate which...
How Project Stakeholders and Organizational Influences Affect Project Management
Anyone who has worked on a project knows that it’s not just the project teams and its managers that affect project execution and success. This post will identify and examine the key external players...
What is Project Management? (And why do you need it?)
Projects are what deliver organizations to their future vision. So the #1 thing holding organizations back is project failure. That’s where project management comes in. This post covers the basics you need to know...
What Does Project Failure Look Like to You?
Pop quiz: An agricultural supply company develops a new product that is much more effective at inseminating cows than any other product on the market. They can develop the product in a year with...
Project Phases and The Project Lifecycle
There are a variety of approaches used to define a project from start to finish and break it down into phases. This post will review some alternate approaches to project lifecycles. Project Phase Deliverables...
What Makes a Project Successful?
A lot of organizations struggle at judging how a project went. This article covers the textbook approach to evaluating the success of a project. Check out our blog post The Third Dimension of Project...