You’ve been working this project for months. Your team is stellar – work is progressing and you’re on track to make your budget, your timeline, and your quality marks. So why isn’t anyone else excited about the project? No one knows to be excited because you haven’t told them to be excited. The art of project management People get into project management for many different reasons. Most […]
Scheduling is an important part of every project manager’s job. I’ve developed a lot of schedules over the years, and each one was very dynamic – they changed a lot from their first iteration to final close-out. Here are a few tips to developing a better schedule. Tips for a better schedule The six hour day Here in the U.S. most company’s use a standard eight hour day. For […]
As a new project manager, scheduling seems to consume lots of time. Learning the software, building the schedule, re-doing the schedule, managing it, statusing it and reporting on it. Schedules are a very important part of project management, though still only a management tool. The Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) details scheduling under Time Management. According to PMBOK, developing a schedule includes defining and sequencing […]
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill As project managers, one of our most important functions is developing a plan. If you missed Project planning – problems, scope, and deliverables, feel free to read that now. Create a work breakdown structure Never fear! I’m not going to do a PMBOK interpretive dance here. There are lots of text books where you can […]
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight D. Eisenhower If you missed Project Initiation: Let’s get this party started! go ahead and check it out now. For some companies, project planning is a nuisance. As project managers, we often must balance the urgency of senior management to see results and the importance of ensuring the team knows exactly what they are trying to accomplish. We know […]
