Project Management – Page 3

The First 6 Things I Do When Starting A Project

When I first started out as a project manager, starting up a project was REALLY stressful. There’d be a thousand and one things to do. There’d be project plans to draw up, templates to research, resources to secure. All adding up to a whole lot of stress. As I got more experienced in project management, […]

5 Things A Project Manager Should Do If The Scope Is Unrealistic

If you’re in project management, one of the issues you’ll inevitably deal with is an unrealistic project scope. Project stakeholders (usually a senior member of management wants to achieve revenue targets of $X million within a very short timeframe). My opinion has always been this – if project scope is unrealistic at the outset, you […]

My System For Tracking Project Financials

There are many, many ways to keep track of project financials. I struggled with the concept when I was starting out as a project manager in a consulting firm. Over the years, I’ve got some real experience on this and I want to share my system of tracking project financials with you. I realize there […]

7 Proven Ways To Control Project Scope Creep

Imagine you’re running a system implementation project. Everything is going well and milestones are being met. All stakeholders are happy. Suddenly a user highlights to you that the system just HAS to do something that was never planned for. It just HAS to have a field to track a customer bankruptcy status. It HAS to […]

One Of The Biggest Reasons Why Projects Fail

Let’s face it. Projects, especially IT projects, have a high chance of failure. As project managers, we can do all the well-intentioned planning, scoping and effort estimation we want, but still our projects have a good chance of being delayed. I’ve seen projects planned for delivery in 6 months, but go on to be delivered […]