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• 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 a [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Mindmaps, Project Initiation

  Shorter Project Charters

  01.19.09 | Permalink | 4 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 [...]

• Methodology, Project Closure

  3 Reasons to do a Retrospective With Your Team

  01.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  One of the most important things you should do in the project closure phase is a retrospective meeting with the team. The best website about retrospectives on the entire internet ever is retrospectives.com, it just says it all. I send a link to retrospectives.com together with the invitation to the meeting to set the purpose [...]

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