04/02/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project budget meeting, project meeting best practices, project meetings, smart project management
In Part 4 of this five part series on smart project management, we’ll discuss the concept of managing the meetings. We’ve covered the topic of making the customer work for you by keeping them assigned to tasks and engaged on the project, the topic of letting the team manage the project budget by keeping them […]
03/26/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project deliverables, project requirements, scaling project deliverables, smart project management
In the first two parts of this five part series on smart project management, we’ve covered the following concepts: Make the customer work for you – the focus on keeping the project sponsor and customer team focused and engaged on the project by strategically assigning tasks throughout the engagement Let the team manage the budget […]
03/20/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: managing project budgets, managing project financials, project forecast, smart project management
In Part 1 of this five part series on managing projects smarter we discussed the concept of having the project customer work for you. I introduced you to my AIM process: Assign, Inform, Manage…basically a way to keep the customer working on tasks that are relevant to the project and to keep them engaged and […]
03/13/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project communication, project customer, project kickoff, project schedule, smart project management
In this series we’re going to begin a five-parter on some things we can do on our projects to manage smarter, not harder. There are things we do as project managers that are definitely ‘chores’. Things we wish we didn’t have to put so much effort into like today when I’m trying to get a […]
03/05/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project documentation, project documentation best practices, project status reports
We’re usually pretty certain that we can remember anything. You know how it goes…that time you’re scheduling your next dental visit and you say to the lady at the desk that you don’t need an appointment card. Or when your wife asks you to pick something up on the way home or to do a […]
02/28/2013 by PM Hut Tags: potential project problems, project collaboration, project communication, project teams
By David R. Robins PM Hut According to research done by Forrester, up to 68% of all projects finish late or fail totally. The problem is getting worse. Due to globalization many teams are not located in one location and the team’s performance suffers due to the lack of collaboration & communication. Today, there are […]
02/27/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project communication, remote project teams, virtual project teams, yahoo telecommuting
It’s all over the news right now…embattled Yahoo is asking new CEO Marissa Mayer to save the company. Once an internet leader, Yahoo has turned into an also-ran and a string of leaders have either left the company or were forced out leaving it in the hands of Ms. Mayer to clean up and shore […]
02/19/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project acceptance, project checklist, project completion, project completion checklist
You and your team start to breathe a sigh of relief as you head down the home stretch on your project. Maybe it’s been six months, maybe it’s been two years. In either case you’re bound to be relieved that it’s just about over and you’re ready to successfully transition everything to the project customer. […]
02/12/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project customer, project requirements, project sponsor, subject matter expert
When I was a younger project manager – much younger and more naive – I foolishly thought that every customer that stepped into a project engagement was ready for the project. They knew what they wanted, had the budget in place, a team ready to work on their side, if needed, and pretty much had […]
02/05/2013 by Brad Egeland Tags: project communication, project management, remote project teams, virtual project teams
Having all members of a project team in one place is mostly a luxury any more. It’s happened to me once in the past seven years. It’s almost unheard of if you’re working for a company with more than one location and any international or work from home employees. It just doesn’t make sense to go to […]