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What sports can teach us about Project Management?

August 8, 2012   Leave a Comment

Sports can teach us a lot about project management. In fact, sports can simplify learning and make it interesting. Here are some aspects of project management that one can learn from sports. Let’s use the game of soccer as an example: Clarity in objectives/goals – each team knows what their objectives are such as (a) win the game, (b) score the maximum number of “goals”, and (c) not allow the | Read More »

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Which scheduling tool is best for you?

July 25, 2012   1 Comment

Every project manager needs a good scheduling tool, regardless of the size of his or her organization or the number of projects they are managing. The question is which scheduling tool is best for you? Until about early 2000, Microsoft Project was almost the default choice.  But now there are several choices. And while this recent influx of scheduling tools might be confusing at first, Gartner’s reports can help you | Read More »

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Virtually Agile – Doing Agile Projects with Virtual Teams

July 17, 2012   1 Comment

Agile methodologies emphasize frequent interactions among the team, product owner and stakeholders. The co-location of project teams greatly facilitates these kinds of interactions. But what do you do when teams are not co-located? What do you do when the product owner, team members, and stakeholders are spread across the globe? Should you fall back to Waterfall and not use Agile even if the project is a perfect fit for Agile? | Read More »

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Implementing an Agile PMO in a very agile way …

July 10, 2012   6 Comments

Have you implemented an Agile PMO? Or has been a part of a team that implemented an Agile PMO? Not sure how you did it, but I can share with you a very agile way to implement an Agile PMO. The same process can be applied to transition a conventional PMO to an agile PMO. Consider implementing an Agile PMO to be an agile project. Let us say we are | Read More »

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Which is the best Enterprise Project Management (EPM) tool?

July 3, 2012   4 Comments

Is it Clarity, HP PPM, Planview, Oracle or something else? How can I find my ideal EPM tool? Everyone is looking for a silver bullet. I wish we had one, but the fact is that we don’t. Selecting the right tool to help manage projects in an enterprise can be a daunting task. Why it is so hard to select a software platform or an EPM tool that is a | Read More »

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What’s your way to perform project risk management?

June 24, 2012   2 Comments

Do you practice project risk management in your projects? How do you do it? Let me share how I perform risk management on my projects. I follow PMI’s six-step process of Risk Management that includes: 1. Plan risk management 2. Identify risks 3. Perform qualitative analysis 4. Perform quantitative analysis 5. Develop risk responses 6. Monitor and control risks I perform the first 5 steps during the planning stage, working | Read More »

How to engage a remote team?

June 17, 2012   6 Comments

Do you work with remote teams? If yes, then you will most likely agree that keeping a remote team fully engaged with the project is not a trivial thing. It needs special skills and experience to make the remote team effective. What are the best practices that you follow to keep the remote team engaged?  Here is what I do to keep the remote team engaged; Conduct a project kickoff | Read More »

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