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Project management training for your ears
The audio book is now available.
Check out the product page and see if it’s for you. As always, you can email me anytime with questions.
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Free Report: Top 7 WBS Mistakes Project Managers Make
The Work Breakdown Structure is one of those tools in project management that in my experience gets used incorrectly quite a bit. That might be due to how it gets glossed over in many textbooks, or how many people jump right into building one without understanding the fundamentals clearly. Read more »
Reader Q&A: The WBS and Cost
I wanted to share an email question I received through a Twitter contact of mine and my response. Feel free to chip in with your own insights!
Question:
I hope you don’t mind me coming to you for advise and help with Project Management. I have this one question which I keep pondering on. In what way [...] Read more »
Lessons Learned from Anita Wotiz
Anita Wotiz is the guest blogger this week over at the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Project Management blog. She published great post titled “An unrepeatable success?” Read it here.
It was great to hear about the project, specifically the lessons learned and trying to relate them to my own experience.
I wouldn’t write the first set [...] Read more »
Project Objectives and Deliverables (Or “how to WBS”)
Lately I have been working on thinking about the best way to go about project planning, especially in terms of objectives and deliverables. Based on my experience at several companies and some independent research, here are my current thoughts on the subject.
Hierarchy
I’m fairly convinced that in most cases, this is an effective hierarchy to [...] Read more »
Point 11 – Attribute Results to Processes
This may be the most controversial point, but in my opinion it is aligned with the rest of Deming’s philosophy nicely, and I agree with this point totally. In the US especially, Management By Objectives (MBO) is very much the status quo. I’ll give a short explanation of my opinion from an operational [...] Read more »
It Was An Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny……
Finding the right balance of documentation and methodology can be challenging on small projects. Here are some tips.
I have been managing small projects for some time now. Some of my project are really tiny, I’m talking about 8 hours of work max. Others can be 2 week or month-long projects. Some [...] Read more »
