August, 2010

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Planning a Project: the Problem of Telling What’s Important

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You’ve read and heard it so many times: “Efficient project planning is vital for your project’s success.” However, when you’re dealing with a complex project, building an effective project schedule may be really hard, to say the least. You have to first create a long list of tasks that should be completed to deliver the project, then assign team members to these tasks and also make sure you pay special attention to tasks that are critical for project success.

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There is really no such thing as failure, only feedback

Guerrilla Project Management

In my last post, I wrote that failure is in the eye of the beholder. When a project ends, talking about whether it was a success or a failure is sometimes like talking about religion or politics. For the most part people will have their own opinions and there is nothing you can do to.

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7 Steps to Writing Effective Statements of Work – Intro

Guerrilla Project Management

There are many ways to approach writing a Statement of Work (SOW) for projects that involve vendors. This series explore the seven steps that will lead you through the process of writing any SOW. These seven are not necessarily sequential, but it should be possible to move backward/forward to the previous/next step depending on the.

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No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects – The Neal Whitten Interview

Guerrilla Project Management

I had the distinct pleasure to speak to Mr. Neal Whitten, one of my great Project Management teachers. Few years ago, I attended Neal’s popular and outstanding seminar “Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects” and read his two popular books: Neal Whitten’s No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects and Neal Whitten’s Let’s Talk! More No-Nonsense.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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It takes a village to fail a project

Guerrilla Project Management

In my previous 2 posts, I wrote that failure is in the eye of the beholder and there is no failure, only feedback. In this post, I propose that we need to take responsibility for our part when our project fails, but only for our own contributions to the outcome. We should never shoulder the.

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Wrike Helps Intuit Users Easily Manage Projects and Collaborate Online

Wrike

From now on, millions of Intuit’s small business customers will be able to manage projects and collaborate online with Wrike’s help. Wrike is one of the few applications on the App Center that lets its users benefit from a powerful mix of project management , productivity, collaboration and time-tracking features. Anyone who has an Intuit account will be able to use Wrike to share files, build project schedules and visualize tasks on a Gantt chart , create and update tasks from email

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