The Project Meeting Kick-Off: Preparing for your project kick-off meeting can help set your project on the right track. Being organized, establishing roles and responsibilities and laying out the project objectives will go a long way in positioning your project for success. Here are a few tips for planning your project kick-off meeting: Prepare and sendPlanning Your Project Kick-off Meeting
Learn Project Risk Management From The Best Almost all projects come with a certain degree of risk, complexity, and uncertainty. However, despite these hurdles, businesses must undertake most projects to grow and develop further. This puts a huge burden on project managers, who are required to mitigate these risks to ensure the best outcomes. Luckily,Project Risk Management
A few tips for managing your issues… Maintaining an Issue Log: Assign owners to issues who can resolve the problem. Establish issue priority – Low, Medium, High. Who should work on what issue first? Track issue reported date and estimate target date for resolution. Communicate status to sponsor and key stakeholders in a timelyManaging Your Issues
Your Ally: The Project Sponsor Managing your relationship with your project sponsor is key to your success with managing your project. A strong, active sponsor can make a positive difference for the program or project. A project sponsor who may be funding the effort can be the “big stick” when you need someone with authorityWorking with Your Project Sponsor
Working with people will be a challenge that requires careful planning. As a Program or Project Manager your “people” skills will be tested to build an effective project team willing to work together to achieve one goal – project success. Project team members will have their egos and character quirks. You will need to beBuilding Effective Project Teams
Be an Effective Project Team Leader During a recent project I really appreciated the importance of being an effective leader to guide a project team. The project that I recently took over was a mess. It did not have a plan and there was a lack of an effective leader on the project team. You could sense the teamEffective Project Team Leadership
Progress continues to be made to right a troubled project I recently took over. A project schedule has been established and the team is better organized as a result. In addition we restructured our project management approach by: Establishing daily “War Rooms”. These are extended daily meetings for our technical teams to troubleshoot stubborn issues/defects.Taking Over A Troubled Project Part 2
A few weeks ago I was asked to take over a project from another project manager. The project was troubled and the key stakeholders were incredibly frustrated. There was no solid plan in place. The execution activities were initiated and there are problems with the product that has frustrations boiling over. I knew the firstTaking Over A Troubled Project
Project scope management encompasses the processes leveraged to define, document, and control the work efforts and outputs of the project and set clear boundaries to document and facilitate an understanding of what is included and what is not in the project. There are five processes involved in project scope management, as described below (Schwalbe,What is Project Scope Management and What Are Its Underlying Processes?
A WBS is a deliverable-centric grouping of work activities, broken or decomposed into smaller task or work packages. The WBS defines and documents the scope of work within any project. The multiple approaches to create WBS are as described below (Schwalbe, 2012). Analogy Approach – This entails review and analysis of the WBS ofWhat is Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and the Approaches to Create It?
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