Project Management Articles
Project Management and S-Curves - 9 Jun, 2008 - 10:12:37 AM
The concept of S-Curves is not new. S-Curves have been used as a charting or graphical tool for many decades for various purposes. I believe however that they have been under-utilised as a project management reporting tool.
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Project Management Articles
Managing Program Benefits - 6 Aug, 2008 - 11:42:26 AM
A key aspect of the Program Management process is the investigation and justification of initiatives. This implies that the initiative or program must have a benefit to the organisation that warrants the investment of resources to plan, organise and implement the program.
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Project Management Articles
What is a Successful Project? - 21 Jan, 2008 - 10:05:15 PM
People often do not understand the difference between delivering a successful project and project management success. Indeed, I believe that the 2 things are often confused.
There is a difference as I will try to explain.
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Project Management Guidelines
Managing Project Meetings - 16 Jan, 2008 - 7:41:12 AM
In this guideline on managing your project management meetings we explore guidlines to use which cover - Before the meeting, At the meeting, and After the meeting, and provide 2 free check lists you can download "
Checklist for meeting agenda notice", and "
Checklist for minutes or notes of a meeting
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Project Management Articles
Earned Value Case Study - 26 Oct, 2007 - 6:05:07 PM
Earned Value Case Study -
It's good sometimes to bring in an outside resource to review your projects or that one troublesome project for compliance. This is where I come in; having skills in this area I am also impartial and come with a number of tools. One particular project (refurbishing boilers at a processing plant), the budget for the first boiler (they needed to do 4) was $7 million, management were concerned by the lack of visibility, and a funny feeling that it just wasn't right, but reports said it was ok ........
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Project Management Articles
Successful Project Management - a definition - 12 Oct, 2007 - 8:10:08 PM
After more than 20 years of experience as a hands-on project manager, running project management offices, and as a consultant and advisor to project management teams across many varied industries, I have compiled the following information to help project managers achieve a successful outcome.
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Business Management Articles
Games for Positive Thinking - 11 Oct, 2007 - 7:42:28 AM
There are games for positive thinking available for both adults and for children. Not all of these games are marketed exclusively under the banner of positive thinking, but regardless of their 'category, deal with some elements that match up with positive thinking learning essentials. These games are really essential to understand whether you think positively or negatively and to what extent. They are a useful tool also to get some insight into what kind of a person you really are.......
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Business Management Articles
Motivating your staff - 11 Oct, 2007 - 5:25:51 AM
Motivating your staff to do good things can be achieved with a few team building activities and exercises that will help create the kind of atmosphere that is not only conducive to productivity but also creates a feeling of camaraderie among work mates........
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Project Management Articles
Reviews During The Project - 12 Sep, 2007 - 9:49:30 AM
Reviews during the Project - Ok let's move on to reviews during the execution of the project. These provide additional review points where the objectives and general "state of health" of a project can be assessed. These review points include
Reviews related to stages and gates
Reviews at key points within stages
Reviews Related to key deliverables
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Project Management Articles
Project Reviews - 6 Sep, 2007 - 5:30:52 AM
Project reviews, what are they for, this is a series of articles that will be added each day to explore this area and will include: - Review of a proposal at the Initial Investigation Gate,Review at the Feasibility Gate, Reviews during the project, Reviews related to stages and gates.............
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Project Management Articles
Project Earned Value - 30 Aug, 2007 - 5:44:50 PM
Project Management Earned Value is actually one of the measures from a technique referred to as
Cost Schedule Control
. However the term
Earned Value or EVA,
is used nowadays as an umbrella word to describe the
Cost Schedule Control
technique.
Anyway what ever we call it, they describe a technique for measuring project performance that takes into account both project cost (budget) and schedule. Using this technique we can compare the budgeted cost of the work performed to the actual cost of the work performed. I like to call it "what you got for what you paid for" ...................
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Project Management Articles
Project Time Management - 14 Jun, 2007 - 8:16:55 PM
The project schedule is the key to time management and should form the basis of the resource planning and financial planning for the project.
To manage a project of any significance it is essential that a project schedule or project plan be developed.
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Project Management Articles
Project Management Control Book - 9 Mar, 2007 - 7:03:10 PM
Implementing a standardised project management control book / folder structure is highly recommended as this aids the project staff in filing and finding documents, and makes transition of staff into and between projects much easier as all staff know where critical project documents are filed.
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