The PMI Sweden Chapter is holding a two-day congress on the 9th – 10th March 2020. In its 10th year and with delegates increasing yearly, this congress has a winning formula. It is the largest Scandinavian meeting for Project, Portfolio and Program Management. Promoted as a ‘Passion for Projects’ the PMI Sweden Chapter Congress theme […]
3 Steps to Perfect Facilitation Every Time
Whether you’re planning a risk workshop, a strategic review or a project planning session, good facilitation skills are a must. Being able to help a group of people arrive at a common understanding, having elicited everything needed to move the work on, is a crucial skill for today’s managers. From running a team meeting looking […]
5 WBS Problems and How to Fix Them
Understanding the project scope is one of the key things that leads to success in the project later on. After all, if you don’t know what you are supposed to deliver, you can’t deliver it! The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a tool that we teach on our project management training courses to help teams […]
10 PMO Director Interview Questions
We’ve previously shared 10 killer interview questions for PMO roles but what if you are recruiting a PMO Director or Manager? The questions for senior candidates can be a little different. Here are 10 excellent PMO Director interview questions. Regardless of the job title you will actually use for the role, these questions are aimed […]
Restricting Start-to-Start and Finish-to-Finish Relationships
Ban SS and FF Relationships? Recently, I’ve seen a couple of CPM schedule specifications which do not allow any Start-to-Start (SS), Finish-to-Finish (FF) relationships or relationship lags. I do not understand this complete abolishment of these schedule tools. I absolutely support limiting the use of SS and FF relationships, and relationship lags. The work being […]
The Work Package
The Work Package During the process of creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) you want to keep a “blind eye” toward project activities. Only after the WBS is thoroughly decomposed, do you consider the activities or efforts required to produce those WBS elements. Let’s take a closer look at this. One of the seven habits […]
Create Accountability in Your Team
What is Accountability? Accountability is determined proactively, before the fact, not re-actively after the fact. If a mistake is made, the response is not to cast blame, point fingers or make excuses but instead, it is about solving the problem and learning from the mistake. Accountability leads to every employee feeling a sense of ownership […]
PMO Trends to Watch in 2020
This year seems to have whizzed by, and here in the Ten Six office we’re once again discussing the changes we’ve seen in PMOs over the past 12 months, and predicting the 2020 PMO trends. After much debate, here are the five 2020 PMO trends we think you should be aware of as we head […]
Simple Critical Path Actual Performance Comparison
Do you review the actual performance of work that was driving the Critical Path at the start of this update period? Do you know if the Critical Path work for this update period was completed as planned, delayed, or maybe even completed ahead of schedule? Figure 1 – Current Update Critical Path The current progress […]
The Construction CPM Conference 2020
The Construction CPM Conference 2020 will be held on January 19-22. This conference will offer a welcoming day on Sunday, January 19th followed by three full days of study and presentations and training at the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Schedule Analysis. The three major software and solutions providers; Deltek, Microsoft, and Oracle, will provide […]