The Crystal blog
Ideas, experience and perspectives on managing projects, developing people and improving delivery.
April 12, 2016
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…
Read article ↗March 15, 2016
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…
Read article ↗March 14, 2016
** 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…
Read article ↗February 16, 2016
Have you ever played the game of dominos? I did many years ago and I was never very good at it. If you remember the game, it involves trying to place your…
Read article ↗December 2, 2015
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…
Read article ↗July 28, 2015
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…
Read article ↗July 27, 2015
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…
Read article ↗July 27, 2015
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…
Read article ↗July 27, 2015
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…
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