How to Manage High Performers
Many project management consulting veterans have experienced the frustration caused by the task of maintaining an experienced and motivated team within their Project Team. A legendary
Many project management consulting veterans have experienced the frustration caused by the task of maintaining an experienced and motivated team within their Project Team. A legendary
While your immediate project plate may be full, it’s important that you don’t neglect the long-term care and feeding of your project management career. A
A project management consulting team’s strength often lies in the diversity of its members – a range of experience, expertise and personalities work together to
Forms and templates are the foundation for many types of project documents. Rather than putting unnecessary effort into creating new forms for each project, the
The shift to electronic documentation is in full swing, but hard copies haven’t been rendered obsolete quite yet. An efficient project may be best served by skillfully combining formats and allowing team members and stakeholders to access materials in the way best suited to each type of document. Understanding how materials are used, distributed and archived will help you determine the best way to use each format’s benefits to your advantage.
Business publications come in every flavor, from glossies aimed at C-level executives to no-frills journals written for those on the front lines of everyday operations. With the seeming overabundance of available trade magazines, it’s easy to narrow your focus to 2 or 3 that most closely speak to your needs, and leave it at that. Busy project managers have little extra time as it is, but by expanding your industry reading – even if only occasionally – you have greater opportunity to cultivate resources, establish contacts, discover tools and identify emerging trends.
Many projects delayed by the sour economy will eventually bubble back to the surface. The landscape may have changed drastically since shelving the project, so a thorough reassessment of the project’s parameters is in order.
https://www.pm-alliance.com PMAlliance uses a team of highly experienced and certified professionals to provide project management consulting, project management training and project office development services. Our
Checklists, when thoughtfully created and diligently maintained, offer your team a simple yet powerful tool to accomplish a variety of project management tasks, such as tracking communications, accommodating unexpected absences of key team members, and overseeing resources. Depending on the needs of your project, checklists may take many forms. They might be tweaked to accommodate the specifics of a project, expanded or reduced based on scope, and created anew when the need arises. The versatility of the simple checklist is what makes it a useful, constant fixture in any project.
At the end of each project, it’s important to ensure your documentation – including e-mails, invoices, contracts, schedules, diagrams and anything else related to the project – can be easily located, retrieved, searched and referenced later.
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