Getting a Project Back on the Rails
Setting “boundary conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.
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Getting More Done by Doing Less
Managers want to optimize their resources by loading them up and have them do more on the priority list to satisfy the executive suite. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.
Visualizing the Resource Gaps
Inadequate staffing or unclear priorities across organizations often leave resource gaps that throws the project off the rails. Identify the resource gaps in Project Management.
How to “Control” an Agile Development Project
So-called “Waterfall” or “Phase-Gate” product development methodologies often give management the illusion that they are under control of the project, while they are actually just meddling and slowing it down.
Meeting the Challenge of Top-Down Schedule Mandates
Many product development teams struggle over estimating project schedules. PERT is the best method to build a realistic, evidence-based schedule.
Project Management 101
Project Management 101 – Summarizing Project Requirements and Objectives, Project planning, Project Execution, Leveraging Others and Risk Management.
Stop measuring results
Companies are producing the wrong results, because they’re measuring the wrong things. If you want to ensure long–term success use short-term predictive metrics to quickly inform you that you’re on the right path.