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Project Quality Management

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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

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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

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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

Understanding Schedule Critical Drag

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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

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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

NAVFAC Guidelines and Positive Lag

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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

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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

Questions To Ask Before You Set Up A PMO

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Setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) can be fraught with difficulty. There’s the challenge of gaining executive support for creating what could be seen as an extra level of administration and bureaucracy. There’s the issue of

The Negatives of Positive Lag

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Scheduling guidelines like the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)’s 14 point assessment will fail a schedule of any negative lags (or leads) are found: effectively banning their use entirely. In addition, to DCMA the Naval Facilities Engineering Command