Project Controller: The Project Manager’s Best Friend
Halleluyah! Finally, there’s an article saying what I’ve been saying for years. With projects becoming more and more complex, and leadership and stakeholder management requiring more attention than...
View ArticleProject Management and Driving: Staying Tuned In
It had occured to me the other day that project planning is a lot like driving a car. If you constantly look down at the road in front of you, you won’t be prepared if traffic suddenly stops or changes...
View ArticleIT Project: Cutover Preparation
Mergers and acquisitions are common in today’s markets. These corporate marriages often come with consolidation and integration. Eventually, information systems are consolidated. When systems touch...
View ArticleThe Five-Minute Project Manager
Sometimes the best project management tips come from other fields, such as this free “Five Minute Guide to Project Management” from a creative arts website. Simple, to-the-point, and yet quite...
View ArticleGetting Projects Off On the Right Foot: The Pre-Flight Checklist
Something you don’t hear much about, but is a critical success factor for projects, is what I call the “pre-flight checklist.” As projects are completed, not only is it important to review lessons...
View ArticleProject Management Delays Are Sometimes Good
There’s an interesting article on Computerworld about the need to procrastinate more in project management. Huh? No, really. In reality, it’s about slowing down the early stages of a project in order...
View ArticleProject Forecasting: More Lessons from Driving
A while ago, I entered a post about the importance of staying tuned in, drawing an analogy to driving. Well, another driving analogy had occured to me, this time about the need to focus on remaining...
View ArticleHalt Who Goes There ?
The VA executes a reset on the under-performing segment of its project portfolio. … … “Each of the 45 projects will be temporarily halted. No further development will occur and expenditures will be...
View Article8 Ways to Save Your Next IT Project
IT project performance continue to disappoint organizations everywhere. This article offers 8 tips for IT leaders and Project Managers to improve their chances of success.
View ArticleMove Over Florida, There is a New Sunshine State
How do you create clean, renewable energy while also preserving a natural resource? India is doing just that with a pilot project installing solar panels across a potential 19,000 km stretch of the...
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