Project Governance By Lynda Bourne Corporate governance is defined as aligning as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, the organization and society. Good governance is good business! Project governance is a sub-set of...
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...
IT Project Management Success By Claudia Vandermilt Just as with any large-scale business project, IT project success depends on the careful execution of many individual elements. In this way, IT project management is not...
Documents Are Worthless – Documentation Means Everything By Demian Entrekin Eisenhower once said something to the effect of “plans are worthless – planning means everything.” He carried more planning responsibility than most of us...
Why Some Projects Should Be Led, Not Managed By Vaughan Merlyn I’ve written before about Business-IT Maturity, and the common “sticking points” that most IT organizations run into around the mid-point between low and...
Management-as-a-Service: The Mythical Man-Month By Steven Brown Management-as-a-Service must address one of the most important aspects of Information Technology Infrastructure Logistics which is managing the resources of a given workload, be it project management...
The Risk of Success By Carol A Long Risk management in projects is often seen as the work done to avoid something going wrong: risk management methods, review plans and products for failure, identification...
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets – Part 1 By Johanna Rothman Almost every manager I know wants to know when a project will be done. Some managers decree when a project will be...
8 Reasons Why the Estimates Are Too Low By Jens Schauder One of the most difficult tasks in a software development project is estimating the size of the project. Unfortunately very often you have...
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....
