Most everyone starts their project with a schedule. They define the work that needs to be completed in the form of activities with varying levels of...
Is Your Project Schedule Dynamic?
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Baselines: A Valuable Tool in Life and Projects
We’re all very familiar with baselines in life. We may not call them by that name, but they’re all around us. They tell us when we should change the...
Project Management ROI
All project managers see their job differently. Some are very lofty in describing their role; others seem lost still trying to discover it. There is...
How Work Gets Done
Most organizational leaders are compensated for executing on strategy and maintaining daily operations. While true, this is an overly glorified way...
Writing Good Requirements
Writing good requirements is frequently portrayed as a unique skill to business analysts, it’s not, it’s a unique skill to good writers....
Got a Strategy? – You Need Portfolio Management
Putting a strategy together is very rewarding. Whether it’s for your division, department, or small business, it gets you thinking about the future...
RIP: The Project Triangle
The theorists have won. The latest version of Project Management Institute’s (PMI)® Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) has done...
Haunting Deadlines
Working on projects can be very demanding, taxing our energy and resiliency. There are often spurts of overtime that have to be put in to get a...
End-Users Have Horizon Lines Too
We have been unfair to end-users for far too long. We ask them what they want the application to do for them and they tell us as best they can. Then...
Don’t Forget About the Project Environment
Projects are neither good nor bad: they’re neutral. They succeed or fail because of what team members do to them, the skills each team member brings...