Archive for September, 2018


From Voices on Project Management Blog: Should You Implement a Portfolio Management Tool?

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September 27, 2018

There is prevailing thought that portfolio management tools are invaluable sources of project metrics and analytics. Do you utilize project portfolio management software for any other purposes?


By Wanda Curlee

What is the state of portfolio management technology?

That, of course, is a loaded question. Many factors—including the company and the industry—come into play. Nevertheless, most will agree that the tools of portfolio management have progressed.

While portfolio …

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From Voices on Project Management Blog: Do You Understand the Critical Path Method? By Ramiro Rodrigues

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September 21, 2018

Is the Critical Path Method (highlighting tasks that are most likely to affect the project deadline) a dinosaur – a product of an era more suited to MegaProjects? Do organization still optimize resources around the critical path tasks?


By Ramiro Rodrigues

 

The term path is used for a sequence of activities that are serially related to each other.

 

Imagine, for example, that your colleagues have decided to organize a barbecue. After dividing up the work, you are responsible for hiring the catering services. …

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Voices on Project Management blog post: Find Purpose to Unlock Exceptional Performance By Peter Tarhanidis, MBA, PhD

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September 14, 2018

Find Purpose to Unlock Exceptional Performance

By Peter Tarhanidis, MBA, PhD

There are three common maturity levels in developing project management leadership:

In the first level, the project leader becomes familiar with PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledg…

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Projects at Work Blog Post: Process This

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September 12, 2018

Not too long ago, it seemed that you couldn't read two articles on project management without one of them citing the purported failure rate of projects. Was it 50 percent? 80?! Some sort of "objective criteria" defined the failures in these studies —…

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From Voices on Project Management: What is project success? by Christian Bisson, PMP

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September 11, 2018

Baccarini touted the use of the logical framework method (LFM) as a foundation for defining project success (Baccarini, 1999). How do you define success?

Baccarini, D. (1999). The logical framework method for defining project success. Project Management Journal, 30(4), 25–32


by Christian Bisson, PMP

Project success is typically defined as being completed within budget, schedule, and scope, and that has been imprinted so much in project managers’ mind that it blinds them to other important aspects that defines a project’s success.

Client Satis…

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From Voices on Project Management: Predicting Performance: There Must Be a Better Way – By Lynda Bourne

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September 8, 2018

Does forecasting get skewed just so a project can get off the ground?

 

By Lynda Bourne

Accurately predicting project outcomes has always been difficult. The standard tools in use today for doing so don’t offer much help. These tools work on the assumption that the planned duration or cost of future work is the best option to use for calculating completion outc…

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