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• Communicating for Project Success

  
  PM Blog: Project Practitioners — Authority: 416
  Ive been out for a while, had my knee replaced, been working on projects new and old, and Im finally back on my feet. Thanks for stopping by for a read. In my morning status meeting today, I listened to a manager provide an update with five of my colleagues, while four phones vibrated around the conference table. My ...
  1 week ago

• Knowing When to Start Billing

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article, I am again looking at it more from the perspective of the IT Consultant rather than purely a project management situation. Ultimately, the two are often one in the same, but in this instance the IT Consultant/Project Manager is running the entire show themselves in an independent role and working ...
  1 week ago

• Establishing Objects and Gaining Conceptual Agreement with the Client

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  I’m taking a little turn from purely project management concepts and thinking more in terms of the IT Consultant in general. Afterall, many of us working as project managers are at any given time part of a professional services organization that thinks of us basically as consultants to THEIR clients. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book review: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  I recently got a copy of the 5th edition of PMP Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide , which is the partner text to the Review Guide and has been fully updated for the 4th edition of the PMBoK. Kim Heldman’s book is a weighty text, coming in at over 600 pages and with another two hours of audio on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Estimate to Completion

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll look Estimate to Completion. As explained in the book “The Project Management Question and Answer Book” by Newell and Grashina, the Estimate to Completion describes the expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity, work ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting – To Complete Schedule Performance Index

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll look at something similar to the To Complete Cost Performance Index – the To Complete Schedule Performance Index, or TCSPI. The To Complete Schedule Performance Index tells us the required schedule performance index that will be needed to meet the schedule. The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Project Management via Web

  
  PMThink! Project Management Thought Leadership — Authority: 121
  Collection of online project management tools are reviewed ...... "web-based project management software that can help you stay organized and on top of your work. " ...Via Digital Inspiration: Online Project Management Apps
  2 weeks ago

• Book review: PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  PMP Project Management Professional Exam Review Guide has a practical, descriptive title – and it’s a practical, descriptive book.  Kim Heldman and Vanina Mangano have written this book specifically for those project managers aiming to sit their PMP exam.  It’s structured logically, taking you through the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting – To Complete Cost Performance Index

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll examine the To Complete Cost Performance Index. In a nutshell, the To Complete Cost Performance Index tells us the cost performance that is required to complete a given project for it’s original budget based on how it is performing right now. The book “The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting – Other Ways of Calculating EAC

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll at other ways of calculating Estimate at Completion. Again, the Estimate at Completion tells us the forecast value of the project when the project has been completed. The book “The Project Management Question and Answer Book” by Michael Newell and Marina ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Estimate at Completion

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll closely look at the concept of Estimate at Completion. What the Estimate at Completion tries to tell us is the forecast value of the project when the project has been completed. Much of the following was derived from the book “The Project Management Question and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Schedule Performance Index

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In this article on Earned Value Reporting we’ll look at the Schedule Performance Index. The Schedule Performance Index refers to how the project is performing in terms of actually following the project schedule. Much of the following information came from Newell and Grashina’s book entitled “The Project ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Cost Performance Index

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  We’ll continue our discussion of Earned Value Reporting by looking at Cost Performance Index in this article. The Cost Performance Index refers to how the project is performing based on the actual spending of the project budget. Much of the following information came from Newell and Grashina’s book entitled ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Schedule Variance

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  We’ll continue our discussion of Earned Value Reporting by reviewing Schedule Variance in this segment. Schedule Variance refers to the amount of dollars planned to be spent on a project (or portion thereof) as compared to the corresponding work that was accomplished. Much of the following information came from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Cost Variance

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  We’ll continue our discussion of Earned Value Reporting in this article by spotlighting Cost Variance – which identifies the actual amount of dollars spent on a project (or portion thereof) as compared to the corresponding work that was accomplished expending those dollars. Much of the following information ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Intro Part 2

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  In the previous Intro Part 1 article we began to look at Earned Value Reporting as described in Newell and Grashina’s book “The Project Management Question and Answer Book.” In this Intro Part 2 article, we’ll exam Cumulative Variance Reports before diving deepr into other EVR concepts and reporting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Earned Value Reporting - Intro Part 1

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  Some organizations place significant importance on Earned Value Reporting as part of their project management practice while others do not. I personally have yet to work for or with an organization that placed any emphasis on this aspect of PM reporting whatsoever. That’s unfortunate, thought it has made my ...
  2 weeks ago

• Project Management Templates

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  Over the past several couple of weeks I’ve discussed many project management-related templates and documents that are commonly used. And along the way over the past 10 months there have been a few other templates and documents discussed. In an attempt to provide a one-stop document to link to all those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Implementation Preparation

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  As the delivery team plans for deployment, or implementation – depending on what you prefer to call it, there is much preparation that must occur. How you prepare for your particular project depends on several things including the following: Customer requirements Type of system being implemented Policies ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dealing with Conflict on the Project

  
  Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog — Authority: 428
  Conflict on a project is almost always a certainty. A project manager who goes says they never have conflict to deal with on their projects just isn’t paying close enough attention to what’s going on. Or they’re in denial. Conflict is going to happen and it’s the PMs responsibility to help team members ...
  2 weeks ago

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