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Introduction Throughout our careers, we will face hundreds maybe thousands of meetings. Many approaches have been developed to ensure meaningful meetings but the objective remains the same – to have an effective and successful meeting deliberating, reaching agreement, assigning tasks or formulating plans. Nevertheless, many meetings can be just a meeting place where people exchange […]
Like many other aspects of business, project management has changed enormously over the years. In recent times, the global economic downturn has had an impact on this area, affecting how businesses conduct their projects, manage and resource the people involved within the projects as well the strategies used to ensure a company stays competitive. Recent […]
Embedding a project management policy in an organization is the first of many steps that will help you leverage the immense potential of project management for your business. The choice of the right methodology, project manager and project management software, and impressing upon employees the need to scrutinize, align, evaluate and monitor their activities within […]
Do you know what RAG status ratings are? Maybe you haven’t heard them referred to in such a manner, and are more familiar with using ‘traffic lights’ to track the performance of your project. Visual cues are so much easier to understand than lengthy status reports, which is why so many project teams use the […]
It isn’t surprising that with the continuous improvement and development of technology, businesses are also transitioning from traditional, paper-based documentation and manual management to electronic systems. This shift is not just about doing what’s currently in and new. Electronic document management systems or DMS can do so much to improve the efficiency of projects where […]
Often a project manager is handed the project and probably some early draft schedule and told to “run with it.” At least that’s been the case for me for much of my PM career. I’ve experienced at least some PMO structure in some organizations and also some templates thrust upon the PMs in those organizations […]
I realize I said “always” in the title and that’s probably a little misleading. Why? Because it’s just not possible. There’s no way we can guarantee that every project decision that we make as project managers on all of our engagements will be great decisions…or even good ones. However, there are things we can do […]
HSI and PMI formalize longstanding partnership to deliver unparalleled strategic business insight The Project Management Institute (PMI) has acquired Human Systems International (HSI), a UK-based assessment and benchmarking company with keen organizational insight developed over 20 years of collecting best practice project, program and portfolio management data from commercial and government organizations around the world. […]
Battersea Power Station, Deptford Dockyard, Grimsby Ice Factory and Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire are the UK sites listed today on the 2014 World Monuments Watch. They join a diverse group of 67 sites from 41 countries and territories across the world, including the city of Venice, the Ancient Irrigated Terraces of Battir outside Bethlehem […]
When a small team within an organization is working on a project it is important to have a document storage solution which allow for effective collaboration. The document storage option that you choose should allow all of the project participants to access the documents and allow for the project manager to oversee the entire project. […]