Product development organizations strive to balance product portfolios to achieve the ideal R&D product pipeline, but without easy access to up-to-date information on product benefits, risks, costs and resource demands
5 Ways To Deal With Stakeholders Who Don’t Listen
Projects involve a lot of people and for the project manager, getting them to listen and understand what is happening on the project can be a challenge. We speak to many project managers who say
Ten Six Consulting Predicts the Hot Topics for Project Management in 2013
Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting, predicts that BYOD, cost savings, project entrepreneurship, sponsorship and a business focus will be the trending topics for project management during 2013.
Understanding The Difference Between Primavera P6 Professional And P6 EPPM
There is a lot of confusion in the market place about the two products from Oracle called Primavera P6. What is the difference between P6 Professional and P6 EPPM (Enterprise Portfolio Project Management)? It’s important to clearly understand what these two Primavera P6 applications are in order to select the appropriate Ten Six training class […]
5 Reasons Team Members Don’t Deliver On Their Promises
When project team members fail to complete tasks on time, it’s tempting to believe it is because they don’t want to. Somehow, however hard we try, we can’t help thinking that they don’t care about the project as much as we do. This is very unlikely to be true. If you have started the project off correctly, built a
Do You To-Do?
“The to-do list is nothing but a set of goals – not the big goals of live but the small day-to-day ones that we have to get through on our way to achieving our vision,” writes Subroto Bagchi in
New ISO 21500 Guide to Project Management Is Released
It’s taken over 5 years! The long awaited ISO 21500 Guide to Project Management is now released. The final draft standard was approved by all the participating countries and once this process was completed, the standard was then
Distributed Teams: Making Them Work
ProjectsAtWork.com has recently released a new white paper about working in distributed teams. The focus is really on Agile teams, but many of the findings apply to all sorts of project teams where people are based in different locations.
Make Your PMO More Effective With Learning Transfer
Do you make a point of ensuring that everyone who goes on a training course transfers what they have learned to their work environment? It’s worth doing. A new study by ESI International shows that when training is transferred back onto the job, Project Management Offices (PMOs) are considered more effective by project teams and […]
The Barometer On Change: 5 Themes for Change
Moorhouse has recently released the results of their survey into what is driving change and how effective it is. The team surveyed around 200 UK Board members and those who report directly to the Board. As a group,