Project Post Mortem Review Questions
Project Post Mortem Review Questions By Michael Greer Overview It’s important for project managers and team members to take stock at the end of a project and develop a list of lessons learned so...
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8 Golden Rules for Effective Project Management Meetings
8 Golden Rules for Effective Project Management Meetings By Ron Rosenhead My company has been collecting statistics for several years. One of the questions is quite revealing: ‘Project meetings are collaborative events which look...
Three Tips for Project Tracking
Three Tips for Project Tracking By Andrea Brockmeier What do your team members do when you ask them the question, “Where are you at on the project?” Ignore you? Stare blankly? Look confused? Cower?...
The Essence of Driving – A Crash Course in Project Management
The Essence of Driving – A Crash Course in Project Management By Ivo Manolov About a year ago, I got feedback from my team that I needed to clarify what I meant by “drive...
Types of Project Information in Construction Project Management
Types of Project Information in Construction Project Management By Chris Hendrickson Construction projects inevitably generate enormous and complex sets of information. Effectively managing this bulk of information to insure its availability and accuracy is...
Supporting International Project Communication Skills
Supporting International Project Communication Skills By Francis Norman There are, it seems to me, three basic ways companies develop international communications skills in their employees, all three of which have analogies with learning to...
Proactive Problem Management in Project Management
Proactive Problem Management in Project Management By Susan Peterson Could the Columbia shuttle disaster have been prevented? Could the Challenger shuttle disaster have been prevented? Seventeen years separate the two tragedies, but little appears...
Basic Project Management Steps: Clarity, Collaboration and Cognition
Basic Project Management Steps: Clarity, Collaboration and Cognition By Clare Munn We all know managing projects is really about managing personalities and communication. We also all know styles of personalities are as complicated as...
Project Closure: Planning the End
Project Closure: Planning the End By Brian Egan – Global Knowledge Closing a project is, in itself, a project. Everything has to be ‘finalized’ in some way – every deliverable, every expectation. A recent...
Quarter Principle in Project Status Reports
Quarter Principle in Project Status Reports By Elrich Linde What is it about quarters? Why do we have to report quarterly? Why are some sport games broken up into quarters and why do certain...
