Corporate Social Responsibility Congruence – Walking the Talk By Dave Nielsen The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the rupture of one of British Petroleum’s off-shore oil rigs has been front page...
CMM and the PMBOK By Dave Nielsen CMM or CMMI may be the most prominent quality standards for software. CMM/CMMI goes beyond the scope of standards such as ISO to define the criteria for...
CMM and Project Quality Management By Dave Nielsen Please note that the CMM/CMMI methodology this article is based on is from the Capability Maturity Model, Guidelines for Improving the Software Process, Carnegie Mellon University...
CMM and Software Project Planning By Dave Nielsen Software project planning is a Key Process Area (KPA) that spans many of the knowledge areas from the PMBOK as it describes activities performed during the...
CMM Configuration Management and Project Management By Dave Nielsen Configuration Management is a discipline that is unique to the business of developing software so is not specifically addressed anywhere in the PMBOK. The purpose...
Customer Management in Project Management By Dave Nielsen It is fair to say that good communications is essential to the task of managing the customers of a project, but good communication is tool that...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) And Project Management By Dave Nielsen Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gained significant momentum in recent years. The push is on to identify projects that reflect the corporation’s sense of...
Project Audits By Dave Nielsen Most of the processes your organization uses have audits and so should your project management processes. It’s just as important to audit your projects as it is to audit...
Root Cause Analysis in Project Management By Dave Nielsen Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is typically associated with operational activities, but there is no reason that the practices that make this tool so effective in...
How to Calculate the Project SPI By Dave Nielsen You have a feel for whether your project is on schedule or not because you are the project manager and you have your ear to...
