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• Rescuing Projects - Part II (the Informal Method)

  
  PM Blog: Project Practitioners — Authority: 416
  Last month I wrote about formally rescuing projects where someone officially turns over the project to you. There are other, less direct ways in which you can be asked to help save a project. These requests and pleas for help can put a strain on the team dynamics, our relationship with our peers and other ...
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• The IT Auditor’s Role in the Software Development Process

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  In further examining the IT Auditor’s role in the IT project environment, I’d like to look at how the book “Information Technology Control and Audit” discusses the IT Auditor’s role in the overall software development process. Software Development Process A formal systems development process provides ...
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• Project Management and Human Nature

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  “You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around — and why his parents will always wave back.” – journalist William D. Tammeus As a father, I completely understand this quote and I’ve done this many times. It’s ...
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• Detailing the Project Management Audit Process

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Diving a little deeper PM audit process as described in the book “Information Technology Control and Audit”, we will look at the audit planning, the actual PM process review, the act of working with the PM and team to identify risk, and the communications necessary to ensure that the audit process is as successful ...
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• The IT Auditor’s Role in Risk Assessment

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  In continuing our discussion of the IT Auditor’s Role in the Project Management Process , we will now look at the auditor’s role in risk assessment. Much of this information comes from the book “Information Technology Control and Audit” and it identifies that the auditor’s role in assessing risk focuses ...
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• The IT Auditor’s Role in Project Management Process

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  In larger organizations or on larger government projects, it may be recommended and even required to conduct audits of the project management processes being utilized in an organization. It may even be necessary to audit individual projects for process adherence. I have personally been involved in many large ...
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• Kicking Off a Small Internal Project

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Fundamental project management is basically the same across all projects, but how much formal project management practice goes into it does depend a lot on things such as overall timeframe, budget, internal vs. external project, and project criticality and visibility. Let’s face it, these all play a role in how ...
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• Skills of a Successful Project Manager

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  In his book, “The Little Black Book of Project Management,” Michael Thomsett identifies his version of the skillset of a successful project manager. I’m providing it here to give you yet another take on some of the key characteristics and capabilities that go into being able to effectively manage an engagement ...
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• Book Review - The Lazy Project Manager

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Just as over the past few months, at the request of the Arras People , I am bringing you their October book review.  This time, it’s “The Lazy Project Manager” by Peter Taylor, who now also write for PM Tips.  The book review was authored by John Zachar.  John’s views of the book that he expresses as part ...
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• More on Project Communications Plans

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  As I’ve been stating recently, I feel it is necessary that both new and old project managers have access to as many potential processes and templates as possible – especially those working as consultants that may be acting outside of PMOs with their own processes and governing policies. I’ve previously posted ...
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• Don’t Kill Your Customer - It’s Bad for Business

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Whether you are a project manager working in a large corporation with a PMO, or a PM-inclined individual in a smaller company thrown into the PM role, or a skilled consultant recruited by any sized organization to lead critical initiatives, you’re going to run into customers who drive you absolutely crazy. ...
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• Another Take on the Statement of Work Document

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  In an attempt to continue to provide PM Tips readers with various templates and descriptions of key documents that are normally part of the project management process, I’d like to present this article with additional information on the always-critical Statement of Work (SOW) document. I’ve already provided much ...
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• The Formal Project Request

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Depending on the size of your organization, and of course whether you’re dealing with internal or external projects, it may or may not be beneficial to have a formalized project request process. I ran only internal projects for a very large aviation and engineering firm in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s and ...
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• The Project Business Case

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Every project needs a business case. This may be informal – especially for small and/or internal projects. It may also be very formal, as is likely the case for very large and very visible projects run for customers outside of your organization. In most cases, the customer has put together a business case in ...
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• The Project Manager and Press Briefings

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  Thankfully, the projects I’ve run have not required that I go before the press and give any kind of a briefing – either pre- or post-project. The closest I’ve come is helping a customer put together written press briefings – these were in the case of US Airways for an enterprise-wide software implementation ...
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• Striving for Communications Effectiveness

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  I know I’ve said that Requirements Definition is the lifeblood of the project – and I still think that is true. But many aspects of project management are extremely critical to project success so if I can’t call communications the lifeblood of the project, then I’ll call it the backbone. Without ...
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• Documenting Lessons Learned

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  It is my belief that the act of conducting and documenting a Lessons Learned session with your team and your customer is critical and one of the least utilized tools of the project management trade. Seriously…the project is basically deployed and you’re ready to move on to other things. One of the last things ...
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• A Template for Formal Project Acceptance

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  This article describes the Formal Acceptance Document. This is just one example - I have other templates to provide at a later date - but I will go into some of the specifics concerning the document and provide some template text for the document itself. This is primarily for acceptance of a deployed system or ...
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• Risk Management Planning

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  I’ve offered – and provided already to many requestors – my template for a Risk Management Plan. It’s not groundbreaking or even earth-shattering, but there are just some key concepts to include and critical areas to ensure are covered. It’s not absolutely necessary to even have a formalized plan, unless ...
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• Project Communications: The Project Manager’s Responsibility

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 434
  I’ve long held (and documented deep in these articles) that one of the project manager’s key roles on any given project is that of primary communicator. The PM must disseminate information all the time – in the form of emails, phone calls, status reports, project status meetings, issues and risks lists, etc. ...
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