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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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Back to Basics |
IT Projects are characterized by changing technologies, uncertainty,
and shifting business needs and objectives. Review core project
management basics and increase the chances for ongoing IT project
success. |
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Basic Project Management |
A presentation on the basics of project management. |
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Benefits Management |
Benefits Management is often the poor relation in the programme
management arena. We devote time and effort to defining, planning,
monitoring and managing our projects but we could give great deal
more thought to the purpose of each project. Benefits Management is
concerned with the beginning and end of project management and
surrounds each project. |
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Benefits Realisation Management – Toolkit for Project Managers |
The aim of this paper has been to provide Project Managers with a
simple, straightforward guide with which to introduce Benefits
Realisation Management (BRM) to their projects. |
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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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Finding Humor in Project Management |
Project Management and Project Managers are not considered to be
overtly funny. This presentation will contrast project management
humor with that of other professions, show that leading companies
are incorporating humor in the workplace, and give suggestions for
finding humor in project management. |
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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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From Project Management to Program Management |
The differences between programs and projects: Program is the
by-product of a strategic planning process that aims to deliver the
visions of a future goal (strategic outcomes) while projects are the
various tactics in achieving such strategic objective. The roots of
Program Management are project management technique and methodology.
However, Program Management focuses on delivering benefits and new
capability instead of deliverable. |
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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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Implementing an Effective Lessons Learned Process in a Global
Project Environment |
Unfortunately, very few organizations can claim they have an
effective Lessons Learned process that spans their global project
operations. This paper discusses the barriers to implementation of
an effective Lessons Learned process as well as the keys to success
in overcoming these barriers and having a process that truly adds
value to the organization. |
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Introduction to the Rudiments of Project Management |
The purpose of this paper is to introduce you to the rudiments of
project management. The module is divided into subsections which
introduce some basic terminology of project management, describe the
characteristics of successful projects and provide practical advice
on creating a simple yet useable project management plan. |
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Leading complex projects: Learning through Action Research |
The authors describe how an Action Research Consortium was set up
and propose that there is a need to build and maintain bridges
between the hitherto separate fields of project management,
leadership development and organisational learning. |
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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 Difficult Projects |
Discovery, strategy, definition, managing contracts and people are
all serious challenges in large and complex capital projects. The
author shares his experience and advice. These projects are
difficult because they involve a high level of investment or are
very tightly controlled with limited funds. |
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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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Owning Innovation: Risk Management in IT-Enabled Transformation
Projects |
This Perspective lays out how to approach the problem of risk in
large-scale, innovation-heavy IT transformation projects; how
companies can address any gaps they may have in the capabilities
needed to succeed at such projects; and why taking ownership of
innovation is the right decision. 2011 |
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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 Methodology in Human Resource Management |
This article provides an overview of project management methodology,
when it should be used, and how it can add value to human resources
management. |
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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 Process Maturity ?PM?2 Model |
This paper presents the project management process maturity (PM)2
model that determines and positions an organization’s relative
project management level with other organizations. |
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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 Risk Management – An Executive Concern |
Actively Manage Risk to Deliver Capital Projects on Time and to
Budget! The main objective of this paper is to highlight how
important it is for companies to proactively manage risk in the
delivery of their capital projects to ensure that capital projects
are completed on time and to budget. |
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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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Results without Authority: Controlling a project when the team
doesn't report to you |
"Your" team may not report to you in the traditional sense of the
corporate hierarchical organization chart in which you have line
responsibility for the care and keeping of your staff including
salary and employment. |
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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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Towards an Integrated Approach to Benefits Realisation Management |
Reflections from the Development of a Clinical Trials Support
System. The aim of our research project, described in this paper,
was to develop a purpose-built clinical trials support system. |
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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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Do
Project Management Tools and Outcomes Differ in Organizations of
Varying Size and Sector? |
While studies of information systems (IS) project management are
plentiful, few studies have investigated how the tools and
techniques used in project management differ for varying types of
organizations. In this study we surveyed members of the Project
Management Institute who work as IS project managers in a variety of
different organizations both public and private and large and
small. 2006 |
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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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Open Source Approach to Project Management Tools |
Famous project management systems can be costly and may require
expensive custom servers. In this paper we present an overview of
Open Source Project Management Software (OSPMS) based on articles,
reviews, books and developers’ web sites, about those that seem to
be the most popular software in this category. 2011 |
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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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Structured Walk-Troughs: A Project Management Tool |
This document describes the structured walk-through. Experience to
date indicates that there are major benefits to its use both for the
programming project team, and for the quality of the software they
produce. |
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The
ROI Of Project Portfolio Management Tools |
A Total Economic Impact™ Analysis Uncovers Significant Benefits.
Almost anyone who has looked into the return on a PPM software
investment has seen massive triple-digit returns advertised by these
vendors. But is it true? The answer is, “Yes — it can be.” |
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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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Toward a Tool for Modeling and Managing Uncertainty in Project
Planning |
Project planning tools often provide little support for managing
uncertainties. Ultimately our goal is to develop a decision tool
that would provide managers with better insights into the
criticality of project tasks, as discovered by simulating the way
the various uncertainties might unfold and interact as the project
progresses. |
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Work Breakdown Structure |
An introduction |
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