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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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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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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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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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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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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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Its my opinion that great Leaders need to be able to rely on their peers and reports and feel comfortable delegating to them so the project doesn’t exist in a silo…

 

 

by Dave Wakeman

It’s easy to assume that the people we work with have the same viewpoint as we do about the projects we’re working on and the jobs we’re doing.

That’s often not the case. In every instance, people are going to see the project differently …

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I tend to think that PMP certification forces a focus on the technical side of project management, and doesn’t necessarily delve deeply in to the soft skills aspect of the discipline.  Do you consider yourself a Technical, Holistic, or Hybrid manager?

By Conrado Morlan

“Hybrid” is commonly used in biology to designate the offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties. For example, a mule is the hybrid of a donkey and a horse.

But the word has also been adopted in different contexts. Perhaps when you he…

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by Kevin Korterud

 

I always enjoy hearing about the early careers of the project managers I meet. In almost every conversation, the subject turns to when they were team members being led by a highly capable senior project manager who provided guidance in starting up, executing …

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The professionalization of project management has long been established. More important, the value of project management skills has been widely accepted. Case in point: research consistently shows that PMPs enjoy higher salaries and ever-expanding opportunities in the fast-evolving, digital eco…

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