Have you ever been in a scenario like this? A project manager tells you that the project is halfway through, but has only spent 30% of the budget and therefore everything is going well. What’s missing from the statement is, of course, the amount of work that you expected to […]
Project Management
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Total Quality Management (TQM) is an accepted part of quality management and customer satisfaction in many organizations. While it has a broad range of interpretation and application, it has some consistent principles which define it. They are: Everyone in the organization recognizes that quality is central to organizational success Everyone […]
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has just released the exposure draft of The PMBOK® Guide 6th edition for review and comment. I will try to summarize the major changes. I won’t go into the level of detail around specific tools and techniques but instead focus on proposed changes to knowledge areas and […]
** Please email me for a copy of the card deck that you can print out to start brainstorming your own methodology As a project management consultant I have often been asked to provide clients with an off-the-shelf, or readymade, project management methodology. In one sense this is good thing […]
Carrying out project audits are a great way to discover what is going well and not so well with your projects. The focus for the audit should be on improvement not punishment so make sure that the process is focused upon repeating the good things you discover and stopping the […]
One of the greatest challenges we face as project managers is a focus on outputs over outcomes. Generally, projects are initiated to deal with a particular outcome (or benefit). A problem or opportunity has been identified and the project has been established to provide a solution. The objective is that […]
More and more research clearly indicates that organizations with a PMO deliver more successful projects than organizations without a PMO, yet that same research also tells us that a lot of organizations fail to see the benefits of a PMO, and some organizations are even getting rid of their PMO’s. […]
So you’ve been asked to provide an estimate for project cost or time. What do you do? You could simply think of a random number, multiply it by the number of freckles on the back of your hand, divide it by the number of bites it took to eat your […]
Does using all the right processes, tools and techniques guarantee project success? Does having all the right credentials and training mean you cannot fail? The short answer is no, it doesn’t. Managing projects well is all about increasing the chances of project success and reducing the chances of project failure. […]
Here is a link to the White Paper and research Sean wrote for the Project Management Institute (PMI) about the organisational benefits of tailoring, or customising, your own project management methodology. Benefits_of_Tailoring_Final