by johnmce
No two projects are the same but acknowledging these truths of project management might help you deal with the uncontrollable.
1. Your project plan will change
The sooner as a project manager you learn to except that your project plan is not the declaration of independence but rather a living, breathing document open to misinterpretation [...]
by pmpodcast
Step 1: Read the PMI Credentials Handbook. The PMP Credentials Handbook, available from www.pmi.org, explains in detail the process of becoming PMP certified. Reading it should be the first 20 minutes on your PMP certification journey.
Step 2: Make sure you are eligible. The Credentials Handbook also details eligibility criteria. Depending on your educational background [...]
By D. J. Smith
As Web 2.0 matures beyond blogs, feeds and photo sharing, many organizations are considering how to leverage social media within the enterprise to improve information sharing and employee productivity. Yet, as with most cultural changes, the move to social media is fraught with numerous challenges to adoption even from employees who are [...]
by GlobalSourceyourIT
Many outsourcing companies have created beneficial outsourcing relationships with vendors. Unfortunately, there are the occasional projects that fail to meet deadlines or criteria set forth by the outsourcers. When a project does fail, there are usually numerous reasons and not just one underlying cause.
Lack of outsourcing strategyThe outsourcing company must take the [...]
by pmpodcast
By applying to take the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam you also automatically agree to comply with the PMI’s audit terms. The PMI writes about this in the credentials handbook as follows:
To ensure that only qualified individuals attain credentials from PMI, we routinely conduct audits of candidate applications. The audit process is primarily random [...]
By Kathleen Phillips
Business leaders today are inundated with products and services purported to provide cost-saving benefits using new and emerging technologies. However, it is often difficult and time consuming for business leaders to distill the true benefits of these solutions when they have to wade through a sea of acronyms in conversations with their IT [...]
by rhoward
A business tale of what it takes to turn around troubled projects.
The year is 2005 and times are good. The business environment is vibrant and the economy is strong. Large businesses are committing large amounts of capital and resources to implement new strategies, establish new capabilities, and open new markets. It was no different [...]
by Swati Bansal
Agile methodologies like Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP) for alone agile project management are not sufficient. As a single, eXtreme Programming (XP) is perfect for agile engineering practices that improvise product quality. In addition, User Stories from XP are a fantabulous way to change the understanding and management of requirements on a step [...]
By Jorge Dominguez
Businesses all over continue to struggle implementing the PMBOK or PRINCE as a whole or parts of them claiming that they are too complex, too involved and take from the time it takes to produce the project deliverables. Adaptive Project Framework (APF) comes to the rescue by adapting to the ever changing business [...]
By David W. Larsen
Overview:
This article is the last in a series of five which explain how an IT organization delivered a release management process that exceeded its management’s expectations and provided a foundation for continued success. The series includes:
How did we get here – THE CONTEXT
First solution steps – DEFINITIONS AND TRIAGE
Intake and [...]
