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Category Archives: Planning
Project Management in action
I’ve spent the last three days at a conference that was well planned and perfectly executed. I want to give a big shout out to the organizers of the Surrey International Writer’s Conference 2009. Continue reading
Dirty little project management secret
Project Managers sometime fly by the seat of their pants. Okay, now it’s out in the open. Some PMs do this all the time. They like the rollercoaster ride, they love the heroics and they see creativity in the pressures … Continue reading
Posted in organizational savvy, Planning, Professionalism
Tagged communication, leadership, management, project challenges, solutions
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Are you sure you trust the effort estimation?
To be honest, I often found myself questioning the reality of the estimates when I started my career in project management. The process wasn’t well managed – there was no consistent process to manage. Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Team management
Tagged estimating, Planning, project challenges, solutions, tips
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Scope expansion, or scope creep
Scope can be the most difficult thing to control in a project. We all want to make sure we meet expectations, and, often it takes a long time to define the expectations. So, where does scope definition end and scope creep begin? Continue reading
How to manage the schedule for a 1200 line project
I was at a PMI chapter event last week and the presenter asked how many people in the room had heard the term work breakdown structure. Only about a 3rd of the hands went up. I have to admit I was surprised at how many people hadn’t heard of it, we were all project managers after all. I did wonder, though, of the third who had heard of it, how many had used it. Continue reading
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