Making good decisions is a critical project management skill. The challenge is to create a fair, efficient, effective, and transparent process for our teams and stakeholders. In a McKinsey survey, only 20% of respondents stated their companies exce...
Hybrid project management just had its breakout moment! The Project Management Institute’s Pulse of the Profession® 2024 reported that hybrid (32%) is now the second most commonly used approach. Predictive (44%) still holds a commanding lead. ...
I authored my first project management article 10 years ago. A mentor recommended I start writing to launch my transition from managing project organizations to teaching. Writing those early articles was challenging. Reducing complex ideas into wri...
A project manager’s first major decision is selecting the approach and lifecycle. Historically, this was a non-issue. The default option was preordained based on the project type, organizational preferences, and inertia. Construction and engineeri...
Hybrid projects are not constrained by a single methodology or well-defined framework. By definition, they are a melding melding of practices. A huge responsibility accompanies this unbounded freedom of choice. Project managers must clearly descri...
Stakeholder alignment—or lack thereof—can be the difference between project success and failure. In today’s dynamic business environment, projects face multiple stakeholders and constituencies. Often, these groups have competing or divergent interest...
Project managers ascend the career ladder based on accumulated experience-derived wisdom and managing progressively larger and more complicated efforts. A typical trajectory involves moving from managing projects to programs, portfolios, and project...
Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects. About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the desired scope. By contrast, a seven-day forecast is accurate about 80% of...
Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to measure project portfolio performance co...
Amid swirling rumors that Mark Twain was gravely ill, a journalist wrote to inquire about his health. The ever-witty Twain responded, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Numerous articles, videos, and blog posts have declared, “Agile is de...
At the beginning of my project management classes, I ask participants if they have any big, burning questions. Accountability always tops the list. Project managers face challenges when team members do not complete assignments on time or when stake...
The default method of grouping tasks in Microsoft Project by Summary Tasks (WBS) works perfectly well for lookahead schedules, however adding another lookahead schedule View with tasks group by dates can be useful to the project team
If you manage a portfolio of projects in Primavera P6 and would like to geenrate a report that shows the baseline details for multiple projects in the portfolio, then you might find the steps outlined in this video useful. The report shows the follow...
Primavera P6 Professional version 21 introduces a powerful new feature that allows you to highlight different types of critical paths – making it easier than ever to analyze project schedules from multiple perspectives.Let’s walk through how this fea...
Agile planning should be simple. Agile embraces flexibility, adaptability, and incremental delivery. Therefore, planning processes are designed to be lightweight and time-efficient. Many organizations struggle with Agile planning. Remnants of the pr...
Take Control of Complex Events with Structure, Strategy, and Digital PrecisionPlanned shutdowns and turnarounds are among the most resource-intensive events in industrial operations. Whether you're in oil and gas, chemicals, mining, or heavy manufact...
Project management is having a quiet identity crisis. We have reached an inflection point. Interest in Waterfall and Agile has waned. Hybrid is still ill-defined. Everyone talks about AI, but its impact on the profession remains unclear. Instea...
Most people with an interest will know that PMI have released the PMBOK® Guide 5thEdition, the Standard for Program Management 3rdEdition and the Standard for Portfolio Management 3rdEdition, with an official publication date ofthe 31stDecember 2012....
One of the more common discussions on the web and in other places is focused on arguing the merits of, or comparing, the PRINCE2 Methodology with the PMBOK Methodology.The problem with the proposition is basic premise is completely wrong! The PMBOK® ...
The simple fact ignored by most accountants, general management and project managers is that cost is an output from the management process, and pretending cost is a manageable input is a recipe for disaster.Profit is the difference between the price ...