Project Management Discipline

Solving business problems and improving business performance requires proper project management skills. However, having effective project management skills alone won’t guarantee success. Successful projects rely on another subtle element that is often overlooked: Project Management Discipline. Project Management Discipline  We emphasize the importance of project management knowledge for effective execution throughout our products. However, there’s … Read more

CPM Project Management

What is Critical Path Method? The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a beautiful product of human logic. By highlighting tasks that are most likely to affect the project end date, CPM helps project managers meet deadlines. But often the enthusiasm for CPM wanes when the theory is applied in practice. Put simply, the CPM works … Read more

Outsourcing Project Management

Project Management Is outsourcing Project Management the right thing to do? I’m not talking about off-shoring customer or tech support, or manufacturing; I’m just talking about an On-Demand Project Management professional hired on an as-needed basis. Having been laid off from an event project management position last year and replaced with a consultant, you might … Read more

Portfolio management for IT Professional Service Automation

Previously we discussed about how PM software is helpful in the field of IT Professional Services Automation. Let’s understand how Portfolio management is important and drives organisation towards success in IT Professional Service Automation. A major challenge faced by IT project and program managers in the field of IT Professional Service Automation is the effort … Read more

The PMO Challenge – The Politics of Metrics

Every company measures success in different ways. They use baseline-reporting, slippage and earned value, issue reporting, risk analysis and tracking. Project Managers and/or the PMO are accountable to establish the metrics they will track and report the progress of their project. I would like to go out on proverbial limb to say, that most of … Read more

Earned Value Analysis in Project Management

Project Management Software Earned value analysis is a powerful tool that can be used in project management to monitor and forecast project costs and delivery dates. If you are not utilizing earned value analysis on your project, chances are you already have the data available to begin right away. To do so, you will need … Read more

Solar Agile Project Management (How to make it work efficiently)

Solar Agile Project Management Previously we discussed about how you could Enhance Your Productivity with Solar Project Management Software. Let’s go a little bit deeper and understand, how solar PM software could work more efficiently using agile methodology approach. A recent search at Google on Solar Agile Project Management gets 69,70,000 hits. Leading magazines like Software Development, … Read more

Project Performance Reporting: Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and Cost Performance Index (CPI)

The Cost and Schedule Performance Indexes (CPI and SPI) are powerful metrics a project manager can use to monitor cost and schedule performance. CPI is calculated by dividing Earned Value by Actual Cost. CPI is an indicator of how efficiently project resources are performing relative to the project budget. SPI is calculated by dividing Earned … Read more