Project Management Methods & Ideologies
Although there are a few methodologies, such as Agile and Six Sigma, that have their own topic areas, this area is devoted to exploring the many different project management methodologies that are utilized by project managers all around the world. In addition, this is a place where PM experts can “talk shop” and express their opinions on why they believe some strategies work and others don’t. We’ll cover Waterall Methodology, PRINCE2 and much more.
The 80:20 rule applies in virtually every situation in the universe. It’s very useful to identify the 20 percent and the 80 percent, but what do you do once you have identified them? Let’s look at the range of possibilities for using 80:20 thinking to dramatically increase your effectiveness.
It’s easy to imagine how you can use 80:20 thinking to prioritize. How can you leverage 80:20 thinking to manage not only what matters most, but also what matters least (yet still matters)? This article looks at how to handle what matters most and how to best handle what matters least.
80:20 thinking is not just a once and done thing. You can apply it over and over again at multiple levels, a bit like peeling an onion. It is at these deeper and deeper levels that we can find the most effective applications of 80:20 thinking.
Using this alternative 80:20 thinking, you make an acceptable compromise with yourself and make a trade-off between approaching things one way versus another, making your outcome more palatable than it might otherwise be. Let’s see how this can brighten your prospects in many ways.
Project Management Offices (PMOs) come in different sizes and shapes with different objectives and structures. This article discusses the various PMO flavors and points of view across the industry.
While there are a variety of formal approaches and flavors to PMOs, these might not be quite right in every situation. Many situations may actually call for a more customized, less formal approach. This article investigates some approaches that may be less formal but are no less effective.
There are many approaches to building a PMO, and myriad activities in which a PMO can engage. PMOs need to be judicious in what they choose to do and what services they provide, but there is one focal point every PMO needs to have.
This is the first part of a series of four articles on Project Management Offices (PMOs) and looks at the best and worst of what can happened when an organization implements a PMO.
Strategic Initiative Management has the potential to be a highly complex topic. Indeed, it is a complicated topic, but it demands keeping supporting processes simple to be successful!
Any strategic initiative needs to focus on building organizational capability in some way – whether human capability or institutional capability. The controversy can be that project objectives could come into conflict with organizational objectives – or vice versa.
Strategic Initiative Management is, at least in part, a fancy way of describing how a company manages its portfolio of projects. No matter the situation, projects represent one thing: CHANGE.
Strategic initiatives are, by definition, items of high priority to the organization. As a result, they need to concentrate on providing key strategic measures of performance that emphasize the operational aspects that the initiative is supposed to support.
This is the first part of a series of four articles on outsourcing, taking a broader, more holistic look at the topic than is typically written. This first part looks at outsourcing in-house, but not directly under your control.
This is the second part of a series of four articles on outsourcing, taking a broader, more holistic look at the topic than is typically written. This post, looks at outsourcing to a contractor that is located within your country or region.
Outsourcing to overseas contractors has become a newer, high impact and more complex form of outsourcing. This post focuses on technology-based outsourcing, typically to overseas contractors –outside the United States—with a huge labor cost advantage.
Outsourcing on an individual basis is new territory. The international landscape provides great opportunity for you to segment those individual tasks that you might like to outsource and provides great opportunities to individuals who provide those services.
One topic in the project management community that is gaining some steam is the subject of digital project management. Well, if you are in the PM community, you know what project management is, but what about digital? This is the first of a four-part series addressing digital project management.
There are so many specialties. Is digital project management a specialty within the project management field? This post explores what is most important to know about digital project management.
If you master the core of project management, you will get beyond the fear of being left behind by digital technology. It is something that has not changed from before the term “project management” was even coined to the fast paced, digitally driven world of today and it’s not likely to change now.
The pace of technology change is not only fast, but it has profound impacts on industry structure, company strategy and projects. However, there is one thing that you, as a project management pro, can do to ensure you are not caught unaware and unprepared over time.
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