PMBOK #5 Standardizes Its Approach to Planning By Lynda Bourne The PMBOK® Guide has always been designed for large projects, and assumes intelligent project teams will scale back the processes appropriately for smaller projects....
Status Reports Can Provide Tell-tale Signs of Project Management Competence By Kiron D. Bondale And you thought status reports were just useful for keeping stakeholders informed of project progress! Although there are many ways...
Budgeting in Project Management By Cora Systems Organizations are facing challenges regarding their budgeting in project management. Pressure to follow through with only the projects that are going to be successfully and carry less...
Project Management – A Culture of Truth-Telling By Mandy McGill, Northwest University As a project manager it is you job to create a culture where truth telling is not only encouraged, it’s rewarded. This...
Changing Industries in Your Project Management Career By James Clements Over the course of my project management career I have changed industry twice and have had many more minor changes of sectors inside those...
When and Why Does Total Quality Management Work, and Why Isn’t It Still Prevalent? By Timothy Prosser Total Quality Management, or TQM, was prevalent in business thinking in the 1980s, and improved the work...
The First Essential of Project Management: Benefits By Russell Whitworth This post is the first of a series of seven that will introduce The Seven Essentials of Project Management. When I conduct a project...
Organizational Theory and Project Management By Ammar W. Mango One way to look at Project Management is a means to realize effective delivery from the organization(s). Delivering through layers of organizational hierarchy is not...
Don’t be a Scrum Zombie By Marc Löffler Every Scrum team knows the most famous 3 questions asked at the Daily Scrum: What did you do yesterday? What will you do today? Is anything...
Project Management – Predicting the Future: A Thankless Job! By Susan Peterson There probably aren’t any job descriptions for project manager positions that contain the requirement “Must possess keen ability to accurately predict the...
