Top 10 Project Management Skills
IT Projects Under A Microscope
Companies can’t make the right decisions about which projects to green-light, expand, downsize, or cut unless they’ve put in place good processes to keep track of exactly how much they’ve invested in various deployments, how those installations are progressing, and how closely they track with strategic business goals…Portfolio-management software provides data and reports that help executives make smarter decisions.
Content: Article | Author: David M. Ewalt | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: Management, Project Management
Building Project-Management Centers of Excellence (With CD-ROM)
PM Consultant Bolles explains how to drive project management expertise into every corner of the organization using centers of excellence. Half of the book describes how to create the centers; half describes Project Management Institute’s Methodology Guidelines. A CD-ROM includes all of the book’s tools and templates in MS Word and Excel files.
Content: Book | Author: Dennis Bolles | Subject: Project Management
Consider these lessons when managing dispersed project teams
You have a tough enough time managing on-site teams. Scatter team members among locations, and it becomes even harder. One IT consultant shares the lessons he learned on the way to success.
Content: Article | Author: Evan Stein | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Project Management
A primer on projects, programs, and portfolios
This very basic article attempts to explain the difference between projects, programs, and portfolios. Useful for the uninitiated but otherwise can be skipped.
Content: Article | Author: Tom Mochal | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: Career, Project Management
A New Team Development Model
A look at 7 points to consider in setting the stage for effective team-work as outlined originally by Organization Development pioneer Richard Beckard.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Management, Project Management
Project Management for Dummies
Content: Book | Author: Stanley E. Portny | Subject: Project Management
Not Quite As Per The Plan: Impact of Uncertainty on Project Management
It is common for projects to miss budgets, schedules and opportunities, in spite of the heroic efforts of the project manager to keep things on track. There is a need for the project management tool-kit to expand beyond task management. Professors Arnoud De Meyer, Christoph Loch and Michael Pich classify the associated and often-neglected uncertainty, and they suggest alternative techniques for project management, depending on … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Arnoud De Meyer, Christoph Loch, Michael Pich | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Project Management
TenStep Project Management Process
“This web site is designed to provide the information necessary to successfully manage projects of all kinds. In many project management sites you are sent to links to order books. On others, you find a professor’s notes from a college class. Here you will find much of what you need to be a successful Project Manager, including a step by step approach, starting with the … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Tom Mochal | Subject: Project Management
Project Management – Getting Started With Your Lights On!
Project management skills and project membership skills are becoming increasingly valued as work involves change, new initiatives, and a series of projects to add value for internal and external customers. Here is a checklist to ‘sharpen the saw’ for effective project management.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Sidorowicz | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Project Management
The Project Manager’s Desk Reference
Content: Book | Author: James P. Lewis | Subject: Project Management
Extreme Analysis for Extreme Project Management
Extreme Analysis for Extreme Project Management is a collection of three original theories, Pretense Irony, Expectation Escalation, and Risk Equalizer. Based on the ‘polishing of the common sense’ model, it builds on the management best practices of corporate America, and takes the Project Management practice that one step above in the evolutionary scale.
Content: Article | Author: Shaun H. Ajani | Source: CEO Refresher | Subject: Project Management
How does the waterfall development methodology play in the enterprise?
Sure, you’ve heard of the waterfall development methodology and have probably used it (whether you knew it or not). But how is it used at the enterprise level? Here’s a look at the process, typical deliverables, and what to expect from each step.
Content: Article | Author: Tom Mochal | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Project Management
Project Definition Template
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Project Management Best Practices
Rethinking collaboration and internal communication
Collaboration is changing rapidly, bringing people, applications, processes and information together in a new environment where fences no longer exist. Business processes, architecture and application integration, communication, and knowledge management are critical factors that must be addressed now.
Content: Article | Sources: Gartner, TechRepublic | Subjects: Management, Project Management
Using the Web for Project Collaboration
Consultants who form virtual project teams know that communication and coordination are two major challenges when team members are dispersed. Rick Freedman reviews two Web-based project collaboration tools (OnProject and ERoom) that can help make virtual projects a reality.
Content: Article | Author: Rick Freedman | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Project Management
Institute of International Project Finance
The term “project finance” is generally used to refer to a nonrecourse or limited recourse financing structure in which debt, equity, and credit enhancement are combined for the construction and operation, or the refinancing, of a particular facility in a capital-intensive industry, in which lenders base credit appraisals on the projected revenues from the operation of the facility, rather than the general assets or the … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: Institute of International Project Finance | Subjects: Finance, Project Management
Project Finance Portal
The Baker Library at the Harvard Business School (HBS) has created this all-encompassing portal intended to serve as a reference guide for project finance students, faculty, and researchers. The resources on the site are divided into two main sections. The Research and Publications list is directed at the academic community and includes bibliographies of articles, books and book chapters, and trade magazines, as well as … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Benjamin C. Esty | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) | Subjects: Finance, Project Management