Sometimes it is necessary to seek assistance from a third party to help resolve a dispute. The third party should be neutral, impartial, and must…
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Create a Flexibility Matrix to summarize the relative importance of Time, Scope, Resources, Cost, and Quality for your project. Identify which aspect is most crucial…
Do you plan for travel time and travel expenses when bidding, proposing, or planning projects? If not, you should and here is why. Let’s say…
Negotiation is a practiced art, but sometimes your best efforts will not be enough, and you should be prepared to walk away from the negotiation…
Authors Thamhain and Wilmon presented 9 ways to influence project teams in their book, Information Technology Project Management, Fourth Edition. Here’s a brief summary: Authority…
Change is the one constant in every project, and it comes from all directions, both internal and external to the project. If you are like…
Managing projects is not for the weak and timid. It is a tough job and project managers need all the help they can get. Here…
Archiving project files and data is an important closing activity. The specific information that is archived for a project will vary between projects and organizations.…
Sometimes it seems like project management is like waging war and it takes a tremendous amount of planning if you are going to win the…
Project managers are likely to encounter 4 types of cost as they plan and manage projects. They are fixed and variable costs, and direct and…
Kanban is a Japanese term that refers to a visual method of managing project tasks. Kanban means “signboard” or “cards you can see.” In its…
Recently, a colleague was abruptly pulled from his project and reassigned to another project. He was called into the division director’s office and told that…
We all memorized the formula used to calculate the communications paths between a group such as team members or project stakeholders. But do we understand…
Scheduling constraints are limitations that control the start and end dates of tasks or activities in a project schedule. Project managers must accommodate these constraints…
Congratulations! You have been assigned to manage your next project and you’re eager to get started with planning. There’s a lot to be done, build…