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Perry A. Wilson, PMP, Project Management Consulting
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Category Archives: Planning
Project Management and balancing your workload
Hi, Happy new year – I hope all your projects come in on time, under budget and with all the scope your sponsor wants.
I’m doing a series of blogs over at EasyProjects.Net .
Full disclosure, I’m one of their consultants, I go in and help their clients implement the methodology that surrounds the great tool. Continue reading
Posted in execution, Information, Planning, Scope, Tools
Tagged project challenges, success, tips
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Planning the Project – how to massage the timeline
You have worked with the team and the sponsor to create the project WBS and finalize the scope. You’ve turned the WBS into a schedule and you’ve validated the estimates of duration. You look at the delivery date with confidence and your jaw drops. The project is going to be ready 6 months after the date you expected it.
What do you do? Continue reading
Planning the project – how much is enough? Part 1
Last time I posted I gave some tips on getting the project initiated well. That leads us into some tips on planning. In my opinion, initiation isn’t complete until the plan is signed off. It seems that one of the lessons project managers take some time to learn is that phases aren’t usually cut and dried. You learn something every step along the way that opens up questions about the step before.This isn’t a failure of the methodology; it’s reality. Continue reading
Planning without a start date.
I’m sure most of us have been in the situation where a project needs to be planned before there’s any clear date for the start. Often the start date is out of the control of the client because someone needs overriding permissions before any part of the project can start: construction in a development with more than one developer for instance. The trick is, and the question for this week, how do you know when you’ve done enough planning with the limited information? Continue reading
Success Measures – try a new approach?
Hi, we all have our set success criteria for projects: on or under budget, on time, within scope. But, what if you made one new criterion every project. Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Innovation, Lessons, success
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How Project Management Can Help You With Any Business
No matter what business you are in, you have goals and intentions. From the largest corporation to the smallest home-based business, projects are being started every day. Without proper management of these projects, all the effort, time, and money are wasted. Continue reading
Posted in execution, Innovation, Planning, Professionalism, Tools
Tagged estimating, execution, Planning
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Is a list of tasks enough of a plan?
When projects struggle with planning sometimes the teams create lists of tasks. To add detail the lists contain names of people, they estimate how many days are needed for each task and even list beginning and end dates. So what’s the problem? Continue reading
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Planning, why is it so hard to sell
In the theoretical world it is sound practice to plan before you start anything. In the real world it seems so difficult to see beyond the next milestone or the next deadline. Continue reading
PM as e-publisher
So, now I’m on the other side of the table from my comfort zone. As the business owner and partner I have to think about much more than just how to deliver. It’s what to deliver as well. Continue reading
Novelist as Project Manager
The next series of posts will be about how I applied project management to writing a novel in 30 days. Think it’s crazy, project managment and creativity don’t mix? Well here’s how it starts. Continue reading