Dealing with Difficult Conversations for Project Managers By Bruce McGraw Whether it’s an underperforming developer, a lazy team member, some type of inappropriate behavior, or a prima donna on the team that makes everyone...
Managing Project Boundaries: Stages, Phases & Milestones (#25 in the Hut Introduction to Project Management) By JISC infoNet A well-constructed plan with clear deliverables should make it very easy to track the progress of...
Is Project Management Art or Science? By Jorge Dominguez Project Managers are certainly both artists and scientists though not in the context in which we know these words. Project Managers apply a science using...
The Project Kick-Off Meeting: Objective, Agenda, and Outcomes By Gina Lijoi Regardless of what industry you may work in as a Project Manager, every initiative must be introduced to your team at a kick-off...
The Death of the Project Management Triangle By Ben Snyder, CEO of Systemation The theorists have won. The latest version of Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) has done away...
Planning a Project – Contingency Planning (#24 in the Hut Introduction to Project Management) By JISC infoNet Since projects involve uncertainty and risk it is likely that you will need to develop contingency plans...
Top 10 Project Initiation Questions – People Change Management By Gail Severini Are you launching a transformational project that demands cross-functional participation or adoption for success? If your organization’s track record at such projects...
The Cyclical Phase in Project Management (#29 in the Hut Project Management Handbook) By Wouter Baars The working methods in the cyclical phase are borrowed from XP. In this phase, a number of cycles...
How to Sponsor a Project By Dave Nielsen The project sponsor is perhaps the second most influential person on the project, after the project manager and in some cases may even wield more influence...
RACI and RACI-VS By Ray W. Frohnhoefer Managing the expectations of a Project Team can often be more difficult than managing those of external stakeholders. Teams “form, storm, norm, and perform”, but short projects...
