Improving project management is about getting stuff done better. All too often, we need to look at what we are doing wrong rather than trying to borrow what others are trying to do as being right.
What’s It To You?
Project management isn’t something you buy from a shelf. It doesn’t come in a shrink-wrapped package. What project management is depends upon how we see it, and what we need it to be.
Selling The Business Case: Plaid Jacket Not Required
For many of us, the idea of ‘selling’ makes our skin crawl. Yet getting support for a business case, or to initiate a project, is very much a sales process. What can we do to get past the idea of selling, in order to present a business case that works?
Monsters Under The Bed
Risk management is one of the most critical practices in successfully managing projects. Our approach towards managing risk goes along way to determining our likelihood of delivering projects well.
Business Case Benefits
Business cases are a tool to justify projects in financial terms. But what happens when a project’s value isn’t financial? The short answer is that it has zero impact on the bottom line. Here’s what to do about that.
No-How: Managing By PMBOK
Checklists and standards do not constitute methodologies. Processes need to go beyond defining what should be done, and actually define how things need to be accomplished.