Archive for the ‘Resource Management’ Category
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The best project management organizations and companies out there understand that projects compete for resources, and they plan accordingly. They have governance bodies that weigh the importance of one project versus another, and they have an elaborate ranking system for establishing the priorities of projects so that everyone can see ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Consultants. We've all either used them, been them, or both at one time or another. Companies love them and hate them. The pattern is usually something like this:
The company needs more manpower or expertise in some area
They have a brilliant idea: Hire consultants!
Consultants come in to help. Since the company ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
How many meetings do you hold or attend with more than a half-dozen people in them? How useful are those meetings? How many meetings do you attend where you never actually have any contribution to what's going on?
As a project manager, you fundamentally have only four resources to manage: Time, Money, ...
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