Many project managers do not have quality control baked into their project. A lack of attention to quality can inevitably mean more rework and/or a defective product
How Your PMO Can Support Benefits Delivery
We start projects because we want something out of them. Those deliverables are supposed to give the project owners the tools they need to achieve the stated benefits. However, project managers aren’t always involved in the benefits-side of
Duration Estimates and Pure or Gross Worktime
An important distinction when creating duration estimates is whether the time estimated represents pure work time or gross work time. There is a difference between the two. Pure work time is 100% uninterrupted work focused on the respective
How To Get Senior Management Support For Risk Processes
Very few businesses start out with an enterprise or portfolio approach to robust risk management. It’s something that is designed into process improvements over time, or managed as a maturity initiative. In other words, implementing risk management is
Microsoft Project and Task Calendars
Microsoft Project schedules tasks based on the project calendar, but it is possible to define a unique calendar specific to a task situation. These are called task calendars. Typically, most work on a project is performed using the same
Understanding Schedule Critical Drag
Critical activities are all the schedule tasks that cannot delay without postponing the completion date of the project. Therefore, these activities are rightly called critical; you definitely want to pay attention to momentum on these activities
7 Specialist Services Your PMO Can Offer
Project Management Offices are all about tracking, right? Well, not really. While supporting teams to track individual projects and monitoring the health of the portfolio overall are key services that the PMO can offer your exec team, that’s not where
Microsoft Project and the Start No Earlier Than Constrained Milestone
Start No Earlier Than (SNET) constraints in Microsoft Project are helpful for modeling external constraints, such as delivery of material. But you may want to add a constrained milestone to properly assign accountability for delivery related schedule slippage
NAVFAC Guidelines and Positive Lag
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s (NAVFAC) Initial Project Schedule (IPS) checklist item 64 says finish to start (FS) relationships should have zero lag. What is the reasoning for this stipulation
Procurement Management Contract Types
Contract management is typically a major effort in the life of the project and can have huge impact on the project’s final success. As part of planning a project, the scope is analyzed to determine whether or not internal resources can do the project