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Perry A. Wilson, PMP, Project Management Consulting
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Tag Archives: Planning
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.
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Planning the project – how much is enough? Part 2
So you have your WBS in place and you see it’s touching on every aspect of the project and you’ve talked it through with the stakeholders and sponsor. Great work! You may have also faced the question about how detailed it needs to be. Some people want everything on the task list and some don’t. But you need to be able to manage the project so you need to find a balance. That’s a topic for a later post. 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
5 reasons for business people to attend project managment training
Let’s be clear, I’m not asking business people to prepare for PMP or Prince2 or any other certification. I mean training on the basic skills, techniques and processes of project management. Continue reading
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Tagged closing, communication, execution, initiation, Planning, Training
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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
Mergers, successful transition
I’ve worked on four successive credit union mergers and each time we developed looser success criteria. The reason we did this is integration and success on mergers is complicated and we found the tighter you tried to control it, the less successful we became.
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Tagged communication, estimating, ideas, Innovation, leadership, Planning, success, tips
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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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Issue management or Firefighting
The challenge for Project Managers is to keep the project moving through challenges – or identify when the project shouldn’t keep moving forward. If the PM is skilled in issue management they can navigate the daily issues (or hourly issues) on any project. If they aren’t as skilled, the project goes into firefighting mode. Continue reading
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Tagged execution, leadership, Planning, project challenges, tips
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Project Management Tools
Are you looking for a tool that can express your project schedule in a way that you can understand and manage, or do you need to communicate the critical path to people who aren’t trained to read a Gantt chart? Continue reading
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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Tagged Planning, project challenges
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