Marketing Your PMO – Metrics – Competency (#4 in the series Marketing Your PMO) By Derry Simmel, PMP, MBA, FLMI Competency The drive for Project Management competency generally comes from some internal source or...
It Is Not Uncommon to Have Two or More Copies of a Plan (#3 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser First a disclaimer: I don’t claim to be the...
A Bug-Fix Cycle at Project End Is Good for Everyone By Ben Minson We have a customized flavor of Agile development, and today as I was talking to one of the program managers about...
Project Timeline – A Project Management Chart By SmartDraw.com Timelines are meant to show the steps of a process or project over a certain period of time. They don’t show very much detail, but...
How to Reduce Stress for Project Managers and Their Team By Heather Buckley A certain amount of stress is almost inevitable when people are working towards deadlines with finite resources available. You are usually...
Three General Types of Portfolios By Dr.Russell Archibald As indicated in the figure below, a project portfolio consists of the programs and projects supporting a given higher-level strategy. There could be only one overall...
Product-Based Planning – The Strengths of Prince2™ (#9 in the series How PRINCE2™ Can Complement PMBOK® and Your PMP) By Jay Siegelaub – MBA, PMP, PRINCE2 The Product Breakdown Structure of PRINCE2™’s Product Based...
Introduction to Earned Value Management – EVM Statistics (#7 in the series Introduction to Earned Value Management) By Global Knowledge There are four sets of data generated by EVM projects. BAC (budget at completion):...
Keep It Simple, Please! By Ron Rosenhead Yes, too often Project Management structures are complex and do not support the Project Manager in their delivery. Look at the diagram below. This shows a simple...
To Do More, You Have to Do Less By Mike Boyer Smith Things always get done more effectively when you focus on them, but there are just so many things that you have to...
