Project Management
Tips, recommendations, and ideas related to the field of project management.
The Project Management Institute defines a project as "a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result" (PMBOK guide, 3rd ed.). Because of the temporal nature of projects...
GrandView uses the summary of project task analysis data to forecast remaining hours in the project and resource loading views.
In the previous Project Management Challenges post, we described 8 common challenges contributing to project failure. The following are a couple more potential pitfalls to avoid.
GrandView Project Management features have helped RoviSys maintain an edge on our competitors by providing us with a solid framework to more efficiently run our projects while emphasizing communication.
The research on traditional information technology projects is chilling: between 25 and 75 percent of projects are over budget and past deadline. Chronic project mismanagement is particularly a concern when customers perceive all providers in a given area to have similar technical capabilities. To compete, you could lower prices. Or you could gain the reputation for more consistently meeting deadlines, budgets and goals—before another company does.
Today, time is as important as cost and quality. Time to market is critical. Time to respond to a client request is critical. Time to incorporate change is critical. When under a tight schedule, keep in mind that clients remember meeting schedule commitment, NOT reduced scope.
Thanks to AJAX technology and Telerik Controls, the Projects Dropdown list box now uses auto-complete to filter a large list of projects down to a smaller list as you type. This really makes selecting from a large list of Projects much quicker, allowing you to more easily move around to different projects.
Have you ever wondered how to make people accountable? Well, there's really no such thing as "making" people take ownership. But there are some things you can do that will help foster accountability, and in the process make your project run smooth and profitably.
Wouldn't life be easy if you just had one project which you contribute to or manage? For most people, work is more complex, although most days we wish it wasn't!
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