Author: MS
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The Consistent Project Manager
As Christmas once again approaches, I have been mulling over the importance of consistency in projects (maybe I’ve just had too much mulled wine). This whole issue of consistency in projects is intriguing because great success may be achieved by the opposite of a consistent, reliable project manager. For instance, a brave and daring…
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Breaking Down Project Management: How PMBOK Helps The Project Management Student
Many organizations and companies hire project managers to take charge of extensive contracts. They are not the contractors or professionals involved in doing the work, but they understand the essential elements of leadership and organization which are required to make a job involving many smaller jobs and lots of employees run smoothly. During the completion…
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The Disadvantages of using Spreadsheets to Manage Projects
While projects can be managed effectively with spreadsheets if the project is small, simple and has well-defined boundaries there are disadvantages to using spreadsheets because they do not offer a range of capabilities and controls that are likely to be required for larger and more complex projects. They can, of course, effectively assist in managing…
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The Extra Ingredients for Project Management Success
I have been thinking about what might just be the main ingredients of a successful project. But just like you can follow a cake recipe but the cake doesn’t turn out to be quite as good as you expected (or at least mine don’t) so you can follow the rules and methodologies of good project…
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Controlling the 3 Project Management Constraints
The key to delivering a project that a client is truly satisfied with comes down to 3 constraints: Budget, Schedule and Scope Not all of these constraints may be within the control of the project manager, for example, there may be a pre-defined schedule designed to meet some inflexible market-driven deadline. But providing the project…
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Ways to Improve Your Project Management Skills
Successful Project Managers often have soft skills that set them apart from their colleagues and help them to deliver projects successfully where other equally well-qualified project managers would fail. Of course, you can’t be a successful project manager with only the right personality traits – you also need the right training and experience but combining…
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10 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
GANTT CHART Gantt charts are the most generally useful tool in project planning. They are used for scheduling and monitoring tasks, for showing costs and expenditure at all stages throughout the project, for communicating progress and producing reports. They show, on a simple block diagram, the activities and costs over time in an easy-to-understand way. …
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10 Reasons You Need Project Management
If you are not a project manager, you may feel the whole process of project management with all its methodologies, techniques, meetings, reports and other assorted documentation is just a thorn in your side. You may even feel you would be better off without it – but I suggest you read these 10 benefits of…
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Reasons Why Projects Fail
It is always difficult to be precise about the causes of project failure for a number of reasons. Our human inclination is to avoid any blame being attached to us, no matter how much we might proclaim the benefits of a no-blame culture, when it comes to our own career on the line, we don’t…
