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Gantt Charts: What’s The Alternative?
When Henry Gantt plotted out projects in the steel industry using bars to show the progress of tasks, I doubt he realized that he was going to revolutionize how projects were managed. Gantt charts display horizontal bars that provide a graphical
5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings
5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings Meeting your project team or key stakeholders to discuss status is a critical part of managing a project. But everyone hates attending a meeting for the sake of it. Here are 5 tips for making your status meetings as good as possible, and completely painless. 1. Be Prepared It […]
Calculating ROI for Enterprise Project Management Tools
When implementing enterprise project management tools such as Primavera P6, there are many savings that are often not taken into account when creating the business case. The list below is not meant to be exhaustive
Protecting Your Project’s Reputation (and your own)
Need to protect your project reputation? Here at Ten Six we blog. We also have an email newsletter and we’re on facebook and Twitter. We appreciate that these channels give us the opportunity to interact more effectively with customers and people. People who are interested in enterprise project management system implementations and earned value management. […]
Schedule Risk Analysis: What Is It and Why Do It?
Project plans are of course about the future, and everything about the future has some uncertainty associated with it. When a task’s duration is estimated to be 5 days it is accepted that this will probably not turn out to be precisely true.
Ten Six Consulting Predicts the Hot Topics for Project Management in 2012
Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting, predicts that cloud computing, outsourcing, the economy, Agile leadership and change management will drive project management during 2012.
Kinley Consulting Announces Top 5 Trends for 2012
As a Ten Six’s strategic European partner, Kinley Consulting’s Managing Director Janet Parkin predicts the top 5 project trends for 2012. These include virtual teams, social technology, green projects, project value and PMOs will be the trending topics for project management in 2012. With the Olympics just around the corner, 2012 is going to be […]
Improvising in Project Management
Letting your project team improvise on projects sounds a little unconventional. After all, the point of having a plan and good change control procedure is so that the team knows where it is headed and stays on track.
5 Tools For Quality Management
We all like to think we do a quality job on projects, but in reality what ‘quality’ means to one person is not necessarily the same as what ‘quality’ means to another. So it is important to establish at the beginning of a project how you will manage to a quality result. Quality Management! Luckily, […]