Collecting Project Requirements By Marc Derendinger, Northwest University It often helps to think of this process as finding what is needed to satisfy the stakeholders and creating a document to reflect this understanding. These...
Why Projects Succeed: Minimize Scope and Requirements By Roger Kastner Whether measured by schedule and budget, scope attainment, stakeholder expectation management, end user adoption, or market success, leading a project to a successful conclusion...
Requirements Gathering in Project Management: Not Enough If Not Priortized and Ranked By Gratien Gasaba “If you don’t know where you are going no road will take you there”. To ensure that one is...
Deliverable Map Planning By Esther Derby I spent two days last week facilitating a planning session for a software project. I was working with a team from a functional organization with a pretty heavy...
Sales Process Meets Project Management By Mike Cunningham The essential characteristic of most sales situations is that the supplier is keen to sell and is in competition situation with other vendors. Conversely, the customer...
On Customer Participation in Agile Projects By Andy Hayward Recently I participated in a series of instructor-led online courses on Scrum/Agile. During the section on Sprint Planning, the instructor mentioned that shorter iterations provide...
Define the Content and Format Standards for Each Product To Be Delivered By Richard Morreale This is the third installment in a series of articles about a 9-Step Structured Project Planning. Today I’m going...
6 Steps to Defining IT Project Requirements By Kathlika Thomas We all know that defining IT project requirements is a crucial task when initiating new projects. But did you know that Standish Group’s CHAOS...
It’s Not A Change Request, It’s A Missed Requirement By Kerry Wills My least favorite conversation to have on a project (well, second to the “we’re not going to meet our date” conversation) is...
The 8 Dimensions of Project Management By Tomer Sagi I’ve been thinking about this concept for a while now and decided to put it together in a diagram and see if it works. I...
