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Agile Project Management for IT Projects |
This book chapter is about applying Agile methods in an environment
that may be more familiar with high ceremony project management
methods – methods that might be considered heavy weight in terms of
today’s agile vocabulary. |
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Are
You On Schedule? |
If you are wondering where your project really stands in its
schedule, don't guess, measure! In this article, Greg Githens
provides five rules for developing status metrics and covers
pitfalls-to-avoid in "enterprise PM software" for new product
development program management. |
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Basic Project Management |
A presentation on the basics of project management. |
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Can
A Project Manager be a Servant Leader? |
A Reflective Critique. Can a project manager be submissive to those
on his or her project team, and still be a leader? |
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Computer-Aided Project Management |
A Visual Scheduling and Management System. This work presents a new
efficient and effective method for the control and allocation of
resources employed in the creation of a product. |
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Earned Value Project Management |
A model for project performance valuation in Ericsson AB. This
thesis examines the earned value method for project performance
valuation. |
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E-Collaboration Effects for Distributed Project Management |
This paper uses grounded theory to analyze data on virtual teams.
The analysis uncovers “effects” in the way distributed projects are
managed. 2005 |
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Executive Control with Flexibility in Managing Capital Projects |
The need, management philosophy, features, organization and planning
a work breakdown for project managing capital works. |
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From crisis to control: New standards for project management |
Wayward or doomed are the projects that are poorly managed. This
author proposes standards and metrics that will make a project
initiated a project that succeeds. |
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Glossary of PM Terms |
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He's Become BankAmerica's "Mr. Project" |
Chris Higgins never met a project he couldn't lead -- or a project
leader he couldn't teach. Here's how he gets things done. |
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Hierarchy of Project Objectives |
Having a clear and concise definition of project objectives early in
the life cycle is an important ingredient for success. |
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How
to be perceived as an effective project manager |
Perception is said to be more important than reality. Some brief
principles to apply in order to improve your position. |
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How
to define success for your project |
You can’t be done if you don’t know what done looks like! |
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How
to Kill a Troubled Project |
Do you know how to shutdown a project before it is too late? Check
out the structured methodology that this flowchart contains for
ideas how. |
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Lessons Learned |
Critical lessons learned from 327 project teams |
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Management Style and Project Type |
Optimizing Success by Matching Management Style to Project Type |
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Managing Complex Development Projects |
A Systemic Toolkit Based on the St. Gall Management Framework. The
aim of this paper is to help project managers to enhance their
capability of dealing effectively with complex change and
development projects. |
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Managing Pilot Projects |
Describes how pilot projects best structured and managed. |
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Managing the Project Environment |
More and more, project managers must have concern not only for the
physical environment, long term and short, but also the social
environment. This paper suggests how. |
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Personality Traits |
Dominant Personality Traits Suited to Running Projects Successfully
(And What Type are You?) |
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Planning a Project |
The success of a project will depend critically upon the effort,
care and skill you apply in its initial planning. This article looks
at the creative aspects of this planning. |
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Program Management Definition |
These short notes provide five definitions of program management. |
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Program Planning and Control |
The program planning process by consolidation, Problems with the
Consolidation Model, Strategies for implementing the existing
process, The Delegation Model - The New Approach |
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Project Cost Control: The Way it Works |
It's not that difficult in theory. It's a lot more difficult in
practice. This paper takes you right through the project life span. |
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Project Initiation |
A consultancy approach: the project plan, project control log,
project completion, Project initiation checklist of requirements |
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Project Lifecycle Model |
The project lifecycle is a pivotal concept in the understanding of
projects. However, there seems to be an almost endless confusion
over what the project lifecycle is. |
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Project Management Appraisal |
Testing the Effectiveness of Your Project's Management. |
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Project Management Guidebook |
Ebook with a description of each of the steps in the project
management lifecycle. |
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Project Management of Capital Projects - An Overview |
This paper looks at the difficulties of managing modern capital
projects and endeavours to reduce the complexities to simpler and
more understandable terms. |
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Project Management Simply Explained |
A Logical Framework to Help Your Understanding. |
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Project Manager to Project Leader |
and the Rocky Road Between... Leadership, management and team
building, while all closely allied, are sufficiently different in
the project environment that they require special study. |
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Project Pitfalls: From Symptom to Solution |
When IT initiatives fail, it's often the people, not the technology,
that's to blame. |
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Project ROI |
As the economy slips into recession, companies are insisting that
projects provide a concrete ROI. Standardized processes and sound
measurement systems can ensure that projects live up to their
business case. |
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Project Teamwork, Personality Profiles and the Population at Large: |
Do we have enough of the right kind of people? |
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Project Types |
Toward a Fundamental Differentiation between Project Types |
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Risk Assessment |
The Concept of Risk, Its Management, and the Benefits to an IT
Project. This document describes the foundations for conducting a
risk assessment of a large-scale system development project. |
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Sifting through Project Data: The Most Important Data Elements |
A subset of project management called earned value was developed by
the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1960s. It is considered to be
the best method for tracking and controlling the performance of a
project. 2006 |
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Splitting a Project into Small Bits |
See the benefits of splitting a project into small bites |
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Ten
Rules for Project Managers |
Just that - not more and not less |
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The
Project Management Experiment |
This report from 1988 covers a project management (PM) experiment.
This report describes the environment-independent part of the
experiment. |
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The
Role of the Project Life Cycle (Life Span) in Project Management |
A review of literature over three decades. The life span is a
fundamental underpinning of project management, but the issue is one
of strategy: "How much control? Who should have it? And when?" |
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Thirteen ways to mismanage development project risk |
Managing project risk is critical to new product development (NPD)
success. Many approaches which sound like they will reduce risk
actually either increase it or make it harder to achieve success. |
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A
Note on Project Scheduling |
The management of large projects requires analytical tools for
scheduling activities and allocating resources. |
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Critical Path Analysis & PERT Charts |
Critical Path Analysis and PERT are powerful tools that help you to
schedule and manage complex projects. As with Gantt Charts, Critical
Path Analysis (CPA) helps you to plan all tasks that must be
completed as part of a project. They act as the basis both for
preparation of a schedule, and of resource planning. |
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Critical Path Method: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice |
The critical path method (CPM) is considered THE standard for
managing projects. So, if it is so widely used, then why are
projects late, over budget, and dissatisfying customers? |
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Critical Path: An Extended Definition |
Knowing the critical path on a project, the project manager can
apply additional management techniques to the tasks in the critical
path sequence to reduce the risk of delays in the completion of
those tasks and the overall project schedule. Critical path is,
therefore, a risk management technique. |
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Gantt Chart Links |
There is a wealth of Gantt chart resources for Excel available on
the web. These site lists many of them, sorted by type. |
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Gantt Chart Tutorial |
This tutorial explains the basics of Gantt Charts and how to use
Excel to make them. |
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Gantt Charts - Planning and scheduling complex projects |
Gantt Charts are useful tools for analyzing and planning complex
projects. This article explains how to use them |
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Hidden Assumptions in Project Management Tools |
Many managers use project management software that is built on some
basic models, but they are not familiar with the underlying
models. |
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Mindmapping as a Project Management Tool |
Mind mapping - which is also sometimes referred to as visual mapping
or idea mapping - allows for the gathering, organization and
presentation of a great deal of information, and can be used to
visualize, structure, classify and analyze complex ideas and
concepts. |
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PERT, CPM and GANTT |
Brief description of these three methods, good entry point into the
topic |
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Resource Critical Path Approach to Project Schedule Management |
Project schedule constraints include resource constraints, finance
and supply constraints, calendar constraints and imposed dates. The
critical path in the projects with imposed dates and different
activity and resource calendars can consist of only one final
activity. |
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The
use of Critical Path scheduling for documenting project delays /
impacts |
Although the primary use of a CPM schedule is to assist the
contractor in managing his project and to insure that a project is
completed on time, the CPM schedule can be used in the analysis of
delays and impacts to the project. |
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Work Breakdown Structure |
An introduction |
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