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If ‘time travel’ was a reality, what would you liketo do going back 20 years in time? I am not hinting at your personal choices, but rather discussing with you a serious issue that professionals and organizations have faced and continue to face. Even with the latest technology and processes in place, senior leaders across … Read more

Across the globe, organizations are lured by the opportunities to seek and pursue projects in all industries. The opportunities to impact the top line, bottom line, market share, be the first mover in the market are some reasons here. In the hope of exploiting such mouth-watering opportunities, organizations many times make the mistake of bidding … Read more

(Part 2 – Managers and Owners) In my last post (Project Management – Communication) I went over what a Stakeholder is and identify the three different types of stakeholders. Now let’s take a deeper look at Stakeholders who are your Managers and Owners. As I mentioned before it is very important to get this group … Read more

Why is Project Kick-off important? Project kick-off is one of the most important events in the project course. However very frequently underestimated and even more not organized. Project kick-off is the real start of the project. Everything before is just preparation and warm up. Project kick-off should be recognised as the real start of the … Read more

I came across some discussions about what should be a proper Project Management Approach. Whether the Project Management should be focused on managing people, and the team, without the need to understand the project content. Another approach is to understand the project content and participate in even leading the project content creation.   Project Management … Read more

Project Audit What is a project audit? A project audit is something somebody is doing, somebody loves, and somebody hates. A project audit, basically speaking, is an activity to review project status, vitality, and probability of delivery. It’s the informal part. Or it could be focused on more formal attributes like how the project is … Read more

After almost 1000s of answers from more than 400 project managers from around the world, the conclusion “answer” — the biggest problem project management is facing is that seemingly no one can agree on what project management is. Certainly, almost of all us would agree that a project is a “unique endeavor” constrained by scope, … Read more

Let’s look at some of the pressing problems and challenges that PMOs face, and what they can do about it. 1. How much work is really going on? “All of my resources are busy, but is it on the right things?” There is a tremendous amount of activity that is going on at any given … Read more