11/28/2012 by PM Hut Tags: project management advice, project management best practices, project management mistakes, project management process
By Michael Stanleigh PM Hut We have undertaken global research of hundreds of project management organizations around the world to determine their best practices in project management and through this process have identified 10 common problems. If you correct them, you’ll increase your success with projects. 1. Running Projects That Don’t Fit with the Strategic […]
11/27/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: it project management, project leader, project leadership, project manager
I’d really like to take credit for coming up with this line, but I can’t. I heard it during a trailer for a new TV show. But I immediately thought of it in terms of IT, project management and consulting leadership. In all three of those – especially when they are all combined as they […]
11/13/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: agile development, agile development skills, agile project development skills, agile project management
As organizations examine the need to stay waterfall or go agile, they can’t help but also examine the current skill set of their developers and really look hard at what costs may be involved to make the jump to agile development. Can the current development staff make that move? What training will be involved? What […]
10/30/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project client, project funding, project loyalty, project manager, project sponsor
Think about this one. I mean really think. I’m not talking about the project manager who is only running internal projects…that never really presents a dilemma. But for those project managers working in professional services environments where you are leading a team of project resources who have been assembled to deliver a solution for an […]
10/18/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: pmi, pmp, pmp certification, project management certification, project management professional certification
Project management certification through the Project Management Institute (PMI) is known as PMP certification (standing for Project Management Professional). If you’ve been a project manager for any length of time, this is not news to you. The question is, should you get certified? Does it have value? Is it the only way you’re going to get […]
10/16/2012 by PM Hut Tags: agile project management, agile vs waterfall, agile vs waterfall methodology, agile vs waterfall project management, agile vs waterfall pros cons
By Alan Cairns PM Hut Put simply project managers are in the business of making things happen. Project management can concern many different types of activity or project, and project managers are in charge of executing the planning, organization, management and control of resources to make it happen. Project management can concern all manner of […]
10/11/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project engagement, project roadblocks, project stoppage, work stoppage
Projects are meant to be completed. No one likes to leave unfinished business, right? But there are those situations that come up from time to time where the project can’t be completed or is put on hold. The reasons can be almost endless. The most common include things like customer funding issues, a change in […]
09/27/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project engagement, project management, project management best practices, project success
As project managers and professionals we’ve experienced many successes as well as failures on the projects we’ve lead and participated on. When you work on or lead a high profile, successful project, it’s human nature to want to rest on our laurels sometimes. Finish a great project, win against all odds, drag a doomed solution […]
09/19/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: lessons learned session, project lessons learned, project management lessons, project milestones
Here’s an interesting concept – let’s make things better now rather than in the future. Why would anyone want to think differently, especially if it might help their career and the work they are doing at this moment? Experiencing success today is better than postponing success until tomorrow, right? What is “lessons learned”? Ok, let’s […]
09/11/2012 by Brad Egeland Tags: project kickoff, project sponsor, project stakeholders, statement of work
So you’ve been handed a project, possibly your only project or possibly just one more to add to your already overloaded portfolio of active projects…now what do you do? If your organization is a thought leader in project management then maybe, just maybe, you’ve been involved during the very early customer engagement and sales meetings […]