Sometimes projects arise within organisations without being specifically planned as such. Perhaps someone has a good idea that should actually be applied company wide and not just in one department, or maybe a senior manager forces a change at the top...
Project management covers a vast field of knowledge. One only needs to take a look at the index of the PMBOK to get a glimpse of this. As a new project manager, it is not unusual to feel that the company...
Every project has stakeholders, yet all stakeholders are not necessarily willing participants in projects. Depending on their importance and influence on a project, uninterested stakeholders can have anything from an irritating to a completely demoralising effect on a project and can...
We humans are prone to think that we are close to a certain solution when in fact we are still far away. This leads us to continue to invest time in one task without noticing that we will never come to...
In time-limited projects everyone is always looking at the timeline. Departments can start fighting with each other over a few days difference of opinion and things can get out of hand if anyone feels they have been put under more pressure...
routine (noun) Fixed habit or method in action; the habitual doing of the same things in the same way; unvarying procedure or conduct. From http://www.finedictionary.com/routine.html Projects are complex by nature. The critical path not only goes through tasks and their dependencies but...
One of the hardest things to achieve in a project can be a complete list of the project tasks. A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a tool that helps to divide the project into manageable blocks of work, however especially on...
There is an old game called “two truths and one lie”. It goes like this: a person makes three statements. From the three, two statements will be true and one will be a lie. Other players must then guess which of...
There’s an entire domain of project management that is concerned with planning for events when things don’t go as expected. It is known as risk management and typically involves trying to reduce the impact or probability that an undesirable event takes...
It is not uncommon for project managers to underestimate the value of a project charter. Some people are not even aware of what a project charter is, which is unfortunate, as it is a game changer. Project charter is a game...
