Your way into the Project Management World

Often, project managers don’t add resources to their project schedules. If you don’t do a lot of resource reporting from your scheduling tool, it can seem like overkill to add people’s names to the tasks. It’s another step to do and you’re already busy enough.

Your issue log is where you record the problems that have happened on the project. Your issue log can be a simple spreadsheet or built in to your project management software. You may have a template from a previous project or your PMO. It really doesn’t matter how you record the issues in the log, as long as you have a log.

If you determine that you will not be able to meet the promises you made in the project plan or if a key stakeholder wants you to change the plan - that is, add features or functions to the final deliverable ...

Contrary to common practise , project recovery is not about stopping everything to undertake a review and restructure, rather, it requires the right blend of corrective-action and current focus to maintain momentum, but can only be initiated once it has buy-in from key stakeholders.

I think that accurately estimating IT work is a combination of experience, natural gift, and luck.  With natural gift (think, big picture vision) and experience as being the two biggest factors.  And your estimate can really only be as good as the information you’re basing it on ...

You know the scenario.  You sign up a client, have some initial discussions and are handed some high-level requirements for what it is the client wants you to lead or implement for them.  Now it’s time to meet with the end users ...

When you’re independently consulting as a project manager or other type of project team resource, one of the most frightening terms is ‘downtime’.  Or, equally bad…’non-billable hours’. In this economy, both of those terms can strike fear even into the most confident consultant.

In this post I am going to explain J. LeRoy Ward’s five steps to setting up a competency framework in your organisation, based on my notes from that webinar.

Work motivators that are high on the list of project professionals tend to be intrinsic to the job, such as providing opportunities for advancement and for recognition. How project managers affect motivators? Read in this article.