04/16/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: contractor abandons project, how to handle a bad contractor, problems with contractors
It can be as simple as a little blip on the project radar or it can be as large as complete project shutdown and ultimate cancellation and failure. What I am talking about is the act of bringing on a contractor for your technical project, construction project, or other type of project work only to […]
04/09/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: constraints of a project, how constraints affect our projects, project constraints, project scheduling software
As much as we would like to think that we are free and clear to run our project and determine its outcome….the reality is that is not true. Every project – really no matter what the type of project, what industry the project is in, and what level or type of technology is utilized in […]
04/01/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: assessing project client satisfaction, project customer communication, project customer satisfaction, project stakeholder engagement
I would like to think that as the project is winding down I know whether my customer is satisfied with the implementation or whether they feel there have been some issues and concerns. I will also be the first to admit that I have been surprised both ways…so it is never a certainty. Staying on […]
03/25/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: replanning a project, rethinking a project, rethinking and replanning
In Part 1 of this two part series on stopping to replan a troubled implementation, we began looking at the reasons to take such action as well as the major impacts to a project for doing so. Now let’s look ahead to what our resource, data and feedback requirements will be in order to get […]
03/18/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: replanning a project, rethinking a project, rethinking and replanning
Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned on the projects we run as project managers. That easily goes without saying because we’ve all had projects that experienced bumps in the road or redirections at some point during the engagement. If it’s minor, then you can fairly easily redirect the project and activities, reassign things where […]
03/11/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: issue tracking, issues list, keeping track of issues, project issue tracking, project issues
In Part 1 of this two part series on keeping track of your ongoing issues that arise on the projects you manage, we first had to acknowledge that every project experiences issues. It is the nature of project management and our imperfect environments that we can’t completely control. We then discussed a simple and usable […]
03/04/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: issue tracking, keeping track of issues, project issue tracking, project issues
Issues abound on every project ever managed since the beginning of time. No project is executed so perfectly that no issues arise. And even if everything is running smoothly on all cylinders, there will still be issues that come up that are beyond the control of the project manager, team and other stakeholders…. there are […]
02/26/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: pmi, pmo, project interaction, project management institute, project management peers
I will be the first to state that I very much like to work independently. And that is the beauty of project management. Much of what we do we do independently. I realize that all depends on the actual makeup of your organization and your project management infrastructure. But I can say from my experience…that […]
02/11/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: customer communication, customer communication strategies, project management best practices
I am usually very energized by a new project. After all, there is a customer out there who is waiting to get started, eager to meet with me, and may have already left a couple of voice mails for me before I ever get the project officially handed off to me. I had one – […]
02/05/2014 by Brad Egeland Tags: benefits of focusing on the needs of stakeholders, focusing on the stakeholders, project stakeholders
What skill must every project manager possess in order to be successful? Communication. Good, effective, efficient communication. Going into any engagement who the project manager will be communicating with is a question mark because the project itself can be more far reaching than originally imagined. And even if it isn’t much of who will actually […]