Increase Your Personal Productivity With The Pomodoro Technique
How many blocks of uninterrupted productivity will you deliver today? Probably not as many as you can (or should be). Learn how to retrain your brain and work more effectively within predefined solid chunks of time with the Pomodoro Technique.
The 5 Tips Essential To Managing Successful Virtual Teams
Have you ever been on a project where the team members are dispersed in different time zones? If yes, has there ever been a moment where the frustration of "they don’t get it" arises, especially during times when deliverables are (past) due? If you have answered yes to either one or both of the above questions, you are not alone. Here are five successful tips that can prevent your team members from feeling the "they don’t get it" factor.
How to Take the PMP Exam
Recently we discussed how to apply and study for the PMP exam. Today we'll discuss how to actually take the PMP exam.
Failure to Launch: The Value of User Profiles
Do you know who your target customers are? Whether you are building a product or developing a new service offering, it is important to know and understand your target customer base.
How to Prepare for the PMP Exam
Preparing to take the PMP exam? Here's what you'll need to know.
Targeted Communications – The “Secret Sauce” in Projects
It’s not enough to say project managers need to be “good communicators.” In order to truly be effective, project managers need to be able to adapt their communications style and technique for each project and each audience within projects.
How Important is a Project Sponsor to the Success of a Project?
Many of us have heard of the role of a Project Sponsor on a project, yet just as many might ask “What does a Project Sponsor do?”, and “How important is a Project Sponsor to the success of a project?”
Use Joint Application Design (JAD) to Collect Business Requirements
One way to simplify the work involved in collecting business requirements is to use Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions. These sessions bring together all the resources necessary to develop and collect business requirements and create a workable project design.
The Value of User Scenarios in IT Projects
User Scenarios are a powerful yet simple technique that can be used to describe a specific set of tasks and/or process steps to illustrate a user's interaction with a system. The focus of User Scenario is to describe user requirements which are different from both technical and business requirements.
Managing Project Challenges: Logical Data Models
Some projects are challenging to deliver. Complex and convoluted ecosystems continue to grow. Company tribal knowledge makes it difficult to involve non-subject matter experts (SMEs).
A Key To Managing Stakeholder Expectations: Weekly Status Reports
Delivering a project successfully is not easy, especially when there are multiple stakeholders. A project can still be considered a failure even if the project is delivered on schedule, on budget and to the planned scope.
Troubled Projects – How to Get Them Back on the Right Path to Success
Many of us as project managers have come across a situation where we have been asked to take over a project that is "in trouble".
Forecast: Cloudy with Eventual Challenges
Understanding data sources for acquiring and integrating data is rarely a slam dunk. After all, each data source is like an employee in a company, unique and coming to the table with similar content and behavior.
Troubled Project Management - How to Get Them Back on the Right Path to Success
Many of us as project managers have come across a situation where we have been asked to take over a project that is "in trouble".
The Truth About Front Office/Back Office Integrations
Front office / back office integrations set my teeth on edge. For anyone that has spent a significant amount of time working on them, you know that they often elicit fear from those involved.
A Process Framework in Action
In this month’s blog, we will look at a case study illustrating the power and importance of using a process framework to implement working solutions that achieve results.
Getting Your Thoughts and Data into the Cloud
A Critical Framework to Turn Goals into Results
Without clarity into how your company operates, it is easy to make uninformed decisions, which materialize in costly projects that deploy poor solutions that produce little benefit.
