How to Hand Off a Project Successfully
How to Hand Off a Project Successfully By Ben Ferris So, you made it to the end of the project at last. Hopefully you can look back with a lot of satisfaction at how...
Category: Communications Management
Avoid Communication Breakdowns – Listen to Your Team
Avoid Communication Breakdowns – Listen to Your Team By Project Manage This Every PM type knows that communication is one of the core personality traits critical to success. They also know that it’s not...
Keys To Successful Postmortems – Part I: Setting Up the Meeting
Keys To Successful Postmortems – Part I: Setting Up the Meeting By Mark Calabrese Part of closing out any project, outage, service restoration team effort or any initiative whether successful or otherwise (and it’s...
Project Management at a Glance
Project Management at a Glance By Hauke Borow Evaluation generally means the description, analysis and assessment of e.g. projects. I’ve made the experience that most of the description and analysis part is not that...
Why Projects Succeed – Stakeholder Communication Best Practices
Why Projects Succeed – Stakeholder Communication Best Practices By Roger Kastner “Communication works for those who work at it.” – John Powell Since Project Managers spend a lot of time communicating, a successful Project...
Project Management: Gantt Chart and CPI
Project Management: Gantt Chart and CPI By Larry Gunter How does a Gantt chart helps communicate project progress? A tracking Gantt chart depicts progress by the amount of time each task takes. This progress...
Playing the Escalation Card
Playing the Escalation Card By Kerry Wills When working with people I try not to escalate issues to their managers. While there are many times that it is absolutely warranted (e.g. not meeting commitments,...
How a Project Manager Should Handle Project Closing Stage Conflicts
How a Project Manager Should Handle Project Closing Stage Conflicts By Larry Gunter Given that leadership conflicts are taking place during the project’s closing stages, here are a few recommended leadership actions. One action...
Project Management: Phase Gate Review Process
Project Management: Phase Gate Review Process By Larry Gunter How does the Phase Gate Review methodology improve project effectiveness? The Phase Gate Review methodology improves project effectiveness by reviewing all stages of the project...
Information Pollution
Information Pollution By Susan Peterson As project managers we are expected to be able to process a great deal of information from a variety of sources. Some might say that the explosion of email...
