Category: Project Management Musings
The Myth of the Triple Constraints By Kirsten Lora, Global Knowledge Projects don’t just have three constraints — scope, schedule, and cost. This idea that stakeholders only care about these three items is absurd. So we...
Project Management Breeds Innovation By Michael L Young One of the earliest activities of the Rudd Government was to recognize the importance of innovation to Australia’s future and to commission a review of the...
Project Management Is not a Process, but a Promise By Toby Elwin A project introduces something new. New requires change from what was to a promise of what will. The project deliverable, or promise,...
Key Success Factors: Who Needs Them? By Demian Entrekin Most of us have heard the concept of Key Success Factors thrown around as if it were a clear and identifiable list of items, like...
The Project Manager By Pierre Fuentes Thanks to ever-spreading recruitment companies and the dictatorship of English over the Web, anyone who’s in charge of some job can call herself/himself a ‘project manager’ these days....
A Thanks to All the Project Managers By Project Manage This As the PM, Account Manager, Coordinator, etc. you recognize those around you…thanking team members for a job well done, praising stakeholders for their...
Certification and Project Management By Kerry Wills It is always interesting to see how people feel about being certified as a Project Manager. On one hand I like having a standard set of criteria...
Do You Project Manage Thanksgiving? By Project Manage This It would be interesting to know how many PM types walk away from the office and immediately take over the planning and coordination that comes...
Stakeholders – Personality Types and Tips By Project Manage This As a vender you call them the “Clients,” internally they’re known as the “Stakeholders.” It’s your job as PM to provide these people with...
Planning And Management: Dynamic And Interactive By Douglas E. Castle Businesses and individual projects require both planning and management. This seems obvious, but in the shuffle of our real-world in real time, the obvious...