Systems: Microsoft Project Microsoft has released a “December 2007 Cumulative Update notice”. The notice includes update information on Microsoft Office Project…
Resources: Books It’s taken awhile but the EPM Guidance Book Recommendation page is now online. You’ll find here books from…
Project management comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes but nowhere is scheduling more tightly managed than in a high-pressure shutdown/maintenance project. In these 5-10 day projects, an entire industrial facility must be stopped, have maintenance done and then restarted and ever hour that passes is huge amounts of money lost in production. It’s a particular kind of scheduling from which anyone in project management can learn a lot.
As project managers we strive for the large, complicated mega project. It’s the kind of project careers are built around. But, is this the best kind of project for your organization? Can you do a better job of managing when the projects are bite sized enough? In this article we’ll look at how you can break down projects into manageable pieces and manage each as a separate part of the whole.
Systems: Microsoft Project Server 2007 updates Microsoft Project Server 2007 has had a range of updates, service packs and patches. …
Article: EPM in a Foreclosure economy Project management is a popular concept when there is a boom economy but when…
Here are some recently added compiled help format (CHM) files containing downloadable documentation for SharePoint, Office and Project Server. …
Article: Head for the Hills With a teenage daughter in the house, we end up watching MTV rather often. The…
Article: The Electric PMO While at a local Project Management conference I was able to talk to project managers about…
Article: Third party project management tools – timekeeping Third party project management tools come in many different flavors but I…
Article: Their Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch TAANSTAAFL is an acronym we can thank science fiction writer…
Article: The project manager’s perspective So much of the project manager’s role involves communication. But, how can you effectively communicate…
Article: That elusive proof of concept Many organizations have purchasing policies that involve a proof of concept for enterprise software. …
Article: Project Stage Gating Stage gating is a concept that is known to many in the project management community. But,…