The latest Pulse of the Profession report from PMI shows that ineffective management puts US $135 million at risk for every US $1 billion spent on a project. A massive 56% of that is at risk due to ineffective communications. In fact, your project might even fail as a result
The Longest Path
This article is mostly about item three – what is the difference between Total Float criticality and the Longest Path? There’s some confusion about this in the industry
5 Ways To Communicate Your EPM Launch
How have you communicated your EPM launch? So you’re going ahead with EPM launch? Congratulations! You’ll benefit from the consistent project management practices that this will build as well as better project governance and more successful project delivery. You know all this, or you wouldn’t be implementing EPM! But how do you get the message […]
5 Critical Measures for Your Project
The great thing about enterprise project management tools is that they give you plenty of ways to dice the data and see what’s going on with your project. When you are starting out, the number of reports and options can be daunting. So what should
Skills For Managing Risk
Unfortunately, all projects carry a degree of risk. What counts in project management is how you deal with these risks as they occur. The smooth handling of risk gives projects the best possible chance of success: while it’s tempting
3 New Trends in Project Management Training
Project management training used to involve taking time out of the office, traveling to a training venue and squeezing as much learning as you could into three or four days. Then you’d come back to the office and forget everything you had learned, going back to
9 Things Program Managers Must Know
Program management is not just about managing big projects. Putting together a program and keeping the balance between all the component parts takes a different set of skills to those of managing a project. Here are 9 skills
What’s The Status?
Project Sponsors are well known for their habit of turning up at your desk unannounced and asking how things are going. “How’s the budget?” they may ask, or, “Do we need any more help from Marketing?”
What is a Results Management Office?
If you’re reading this, you probably have an enterprise project management tool or are looking at implementing one in the future. And you probably have implemented, or would like to implement some kind of
Portfolio Management For Corporate Governance
Organizations today are increasingly demanding higher requirements for corporate governance and heightened standards for executive oversight. Executives should now be able to define and enforce a governance structure