Project Management
Project Constraints Redefined
By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP Traditionally, project managers have managed projects using the triple constraints of scope, time, or cost, where scope refers to what must be done to produce the project deliverables, time refers to the time available to complete the project, and cost refers to budget allocated to complete the project. These constraints... »
Assure Project Success
By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail. –Author unknown. Project failure usually results from lack of planning. Stated another way, projects fail before they begin. An old axiom clearly illustrates the problem, “Ready, Fire, Aim.” Unfortunately, that’s the way many organizations do business today, they are in a... »
The Pareto Principle (Pareto’s Law)
Known by various names, including The Pareto Principle, The Pareto Law, Pareto’s Law, The 80/20 Rule, The 80:20 Rule, Pareto Theory, The Principle of Least Effort (a term coined by George Zipf in 1949 based on Pareto’s theory), The Principle of Imbalance, The 80-20 Principle, The Rule of the Vital Few (an interpretation developed... »
PMI Training and Qualifications from the Project Management Institute
by john mce The Project Management Institute is a worldwide professional association for project, programme or portfolio managers. The purpose of the PMI is to develop the practise and profession of project management all over the world. They hope that organisations worldwide will embrace their project management principles and attribute their success to it. By joining... »
What Is Project Management?
By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP What is a Project? According to Project Management Institute (PMI), the definition of a project is a temporary endeavor with a specified beginning and end undertaken to create a unique product or service. Temporary A project has a beginning and end; it is not an ongoing effort. The project ceases when the objective... »
6 Common Reasons IT Projects Fail
Many outsourcing companies have created beneficial outsourcing relationships with vendors. Unfortunately, there are the occasional projects that fail to meet deadlines or criteria set forth by the outsourcers. When a project does fail, there are usually numerous reasons and not just one underlying cause. Lack of outsourcing strategy The outsourcing company must take the time to... »
Project Triage and Remediation
By: Ray Myers, Jr., PMP There are two types of project managers, those with projects that have “gone south” and those that will. It happens more frequently that we like to admit and it will eventually happen to even the best project managers. When it does, the project manager should be prepared to identify and... »
Six common reasons of why projects fail
To be able to understand project delivery it is important to understand one or two reasons why projects fail. From experience having being commissioned to troubleshoot projects and recommending turnaround strategies here are my top six. 1. Failure to capture and agree business case requirements, therefore not understanding the full set of project deliverables and... »
The Purpose of Project Management and Setting Objectives
Project Management has developed in order to plan, co-ordinate and control the complex and diverse activities of modern industrial and commercial projects. All projects share one common characteristic – the projection of ideas and activities into new endeavours. The purpose of project management is to foresee or predict as many dangers and problems as possible;... »
Managing International Projects
Every project manager wants to manage an International Project if the questions I receive when speaking on the subject are any indication. The idea conjures visions of exotic locations, foods, people, first-class hotels and five star restaurants all over the world; not to mention strange customs and unknown environments. It also triggers a level... »
