Musings on Project Management

JULY 7, 2017

Want a happy client? (Who doesn't?) Don't be late! Which means: establish -- mutually -- the most valuable milestone (as seen by the client) and then. protect it! How? with a buffer. The buffer is unscheduled time used to capture the unforeseen overflow of work from the backlog, or to work off essential debt collected along the way.

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Risk Management Risk Planning 170

The Lazy Project Manager

JULY 7, 2017

“Life? Don’t talk to me about life.” So said Marvin from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Marvin, more fully known as Marvin the Paranoid Android, is a robot manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. He is equipped with “Genuine People Personalities” technology which is designed to make him more like a person.

PMO 93

PMO Manufacturing Leadership Engineering 93

The Digital Project Manager

JULY 7, 2017

As a project manager, there aren’t many things more satisfying than managing to pull off a project that, at the start, everyone said was going. The post When you pull off an impossible project appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 7, 2017

Organize your team’s work schedule to better manage your project’s workflow with a simple work schedule template. You can note the days your team is work on the project or a particular task, as well as collect their pay rate and hours spent completing those tasks. A work schedule template is a crucial arm in handling the resources, so you can control your project as it progresses to a successful completion.

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Project Life Cycle Software Controlling Defining 201

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The Tao of Project Management

JULY 7, 2017

We had our AGM at the rugby club this week. Good turnout (probably because we opened the bar and had free food) and there was a good bit of lively discussion. Creativity in projects often comes from the interaction between opposites. If everyone on the project is in total harmony and agreement things will be very peaceful but there will be no spark.

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