During the first week of October 2016, NASSCOM held one of its premier summits on Design & Engineering in Bangalore. Amongst others, the key focus was the Internet of Things, or IoT for short. In a world that is fascinated by new jargon, IoT has caught all the attention of professionals, and business leaders irrespective … Read more
Did the title of this blog stump you? Well, it was purely intentional and not a coincidence! As professionals, we all understand what ROI or Return on Investment is. What is ROF? Well, we will come to that in a while.Allow me to set the context. Organizations, both in the private as well as government … Read more
If ‘time travel’ was a reality, what would you like to 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 … 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
(Part 1 – Overview) Communication with Stakeholders is one of the most important pieces to managing the project puzzle. Get this right and you have just passed a major hurdle! In this first post, we are going to give an overview of each type of stakeholder and then We will follow with three posts that … 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
Start of a Project There are several things to consider before you start a project, especially if you’re relatively new to the company. It’s important to put project management in its proper context because without a frame of reference to start with, you can easily get lost. You’d be really surprised, and we’re all guilty … Read more
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