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• Interviews, Methodology, Project Management

  Sound advice from Wim Lockefeer

  09.14.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I interviewed Wim Lockefeer, a senior project manager at Nascom. Wim has over 15 years of experience in project management and he’s fun to have on the team so I wanted to pick his brain.
  As usual this post is a summary of what I learned from the interview and my own interpretation. Here’s my [...]

• Interviews, Methodology, Project Management

  What I learned from Jan De Schepper

  09.09.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A (long) while ago I had a talk about project management with Jan De Schepper. He is the former Telindus Chief executive and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at Nascom and runs the Business Solutions Unit. We get to see a lot more of him on the floor at Nascom HQ these days [...]

• Inspiration, Project Management

  Don’t Compromise on the Good Part

  05.09.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  There are 3 parameters everybody wants in any project.
  The project has to be:

  Cheap
  Fast
  Good

  The golden rule is you can only have 2.

  A fast & cheap project is rarely gonna be good.
  A fast & good project isn’t cheap.
  And a cheap good project won’t be fast.

  So please choose whether you want it cheap, or fast.
  Don’t compromise on the [...]

• Methodology, Project Management

  Creative Industry Project Management

  05.01.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Creativity in art and advertising requires a certain amount of chaos, after all creating ideas is an organic process.
  These are some actions I noticed that can make the difference under such conditions.

  Keeping a good risk log, thinking up correct mitigations.
  Having a stakeholder list and a communication plan.
  Practicing disciplined asset management.
  Putting exceptional effort in illustrating [...]

• Project Planning, Time Management

  The Key Method to Prioritizing Efficiently

  03.12.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Chances are high that you and your team have a lot of things to do at the moment and a long list of tasks is currently on your plates.
  There’s a cool way to find out what’s the smartest thing to do first by putting each task in one of 4 group in terms of saving [...]

• Integration Management, Project Planning

  3 Tools to Make Work Breakdown Structure

  02.22.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  After making a preliminary scope statement and some high level planning, most contracts can be signed and actual production can start. The direction of the project is clear but more details are needed to efficiently control the work. For this I get the project team together and make a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), it’s [...]

• Project Planning

  How does a project get a year late?

  02.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  One day at a time.
  This little piece of wisdom is one of my favorite project management proverbs. It’s number 40 in a long list of PM jokes and proverbs I found the other day. Interesting stuff, but be warned, you’ll notice about 95% of it is horribly corny.

• Project Planning

  Planning the Perfect Deadline

  02.05.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Here are some important things you can use as a checklist when thinking about deadlines.

  Check to see if a deadline is on a Friday, this happens all the time and it’s probably a bad idea because people make plans for the weekend and if something should go wrong you’re in for a challenge. I like [...]

• Project Management

  What does a good Project Manager do actually?

  01.24.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Good question, someone asked me a few days ago and it got me thinking about the essentials. So what does a good PM do actually?
  Here’s a list of good PM behaviors that I think are important:

  communicate with all the people who are influenced by the project
  monitor and control the scope, budget and planning constrains
  understand the [...]

• Mindmaps, Project Initiation

  Shorter Project Charters

  01.19.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  A project charter is the document that provides ownership (and authority) to the PM for a project, after someone hands that to you or when you write it up yourself and get it signed, you are the owner of the project on behalf of your company.
  The point is, you start out with it and [...]

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