It was our honor and delight to be invited to present at the 2014 Earned Value Management Practitioners (EVMP) Forum that took place at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City, Virginia on July 29th – 31st.
The Essential Skills For A Project Sponsor
It’s well known that change programs are less effective without an active sponsor. The senior manager in the sponsor role is normally the person best placed to champion the project. They also tend to control the resources: the team members and the budget. And they are typically the
5 Ways To Improve Collaboration
With teams now stretching across time zones and continents, instead of simply to the floor above, we have to come up with creative ways to get everyone engaged and to encourage individuals to work together without silos.
7 Things To Look For In Your EVM Team Members
Running projects with Earned Value Management (EVM) systems in place requires a slightly different skill set to project management without EVM. Finding the right people is essential if you want to make your EVM deployment a success, but seeking them out can be difficult. You’ll also want to
Microsoft Project 2010 Project Summary Task
In this article we’ll take a look at how to find that rather useful Project Summary Task option in the ribbon area of the Microsoft Project 2010 version.
3 Ways To Improve Portfolio Performance
Are you looking for ways that you can improve your portfolio management approaches? PMI has recently done some research that will help. It’s Pulse of the Profession: Portfolio Management report highlights three ways to differentiate your PMO and step up your
What Does A Project Health Check Involve?
One of the best ways to increase confidence in your project management effectiveness is to carry out a few targeted project health checks. These are assessments that help you determine whether or not a project is healthy: whether it is performing as it should and is on target
Milestone Performance Evaluation Tools
There has been increased interest in developing the ability to objectively assess a Program/Project executing team’s ability to successfully meet their Integrated Management Plan (IMP) goals. Using the Baseline Execution Index (BEI)
Managing Information Overload
Argh, there’s just too much data! Project management offices and project managers alike can find the amount of information generated as part of their job quite overwhelming at times. We’ve got timesheet data, status updates, email alerts, pings from instant
Microsoft Project 2010 Task Calculation Options
With the advent of Microsoft Project 2010, a new capability was introduced that allows you to select whether or not a particular task will be calculated as part of the critical path.