The Importance of Trust in Business
The Importance of Trust in Business By Timothy Prosser Trust is essential to getting anything done. How it is expressed makes a huge difference in how things go, however, and it’s one of those...
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Which Is Better? A Budget with “Challenge” or a Budget with “Reserve”?
Which Is Better? A Budget with “Challenge” or a Budget with “Reserve”? By Timothy Prosser In the defense contracting world budgeting is typically done under a rigorous “earned value management system” (EVMS) that usually...
Smart Project Endings Add Serious Value
Smart Project Endings Add Serious Value By Timothy Prosser Failing to effectively end projects can have high but hidden costs. Some companies are so buried in the latest and hottest project or in “fighting...
When and Why Does Total Quality Management Work, and Why Isn’t It Still Prevalent?
When and Why Does Total Quality Management Work, and Why Isn’t It Still Prevalent? By Timothy Prosser Total Quality Management, or TQM, was prevalent in business thinking in the 1980s, and improved the work...
Finding the Roots of Organizational Incompetence
Finding the Roots of Organizational Incompetence By Timothy Prosser First let me define my term “Organizational Incompetence”. Sometimes in business you sit in a meeting and hear people grousing and struggling, and perhaps arguing...
Know Your Audience When Developing the Project Management Plan
Know Your Audience When Developing the Project Management Plan (#10 in the series Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser Know your audience, your organization, when reviews take place, and what makes sense...
Proper Organization Can Make The Plan A Better Reference
Proper Organization Can Make The Plan A Better Reference (#8 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser Divide the plan into areas that represent different functional groups’ activities, or into...
Include Reference Information to Explain Symbols and Acronyms
Include Reference Information to Explain Symbols and Acronyms (#7 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser First a disclaimer: I don’t claim to be the world’s expert on project management,...
A Too-detailed Plan Can Become Nearly Impossible to Maintain
A Too-detailed Plan Can Become Nearly Impossible to Maintain (#5 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser First a disclaimer: I don’t claim to be the world’s expert on project...
You Have to Have Plans, but to Be Effective They Must Achieve a Happy Medium as Far as Detail and Readability
You Have to Have Plans, but to Be Effective They Must Achieve a Happy Medium as Far as Detail and Readability (#4 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser First...
