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Join the Virtual Working Summit!

June 16, 2010

Is your project team scattered all over the place, and most of your meetings done on the phone?  Many project managers lead a virtual team and getting the best out of people and their time can be a challenge when you are not based in the same office.
You can learn how to do work better [...]

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Education and Training: The Debate

June 9, 2010

Is there are big divide between project management academics and those offering training?  And do project managers need both?  These were some of the questions discussed at a recent BCS event where a panel debated the differences between project management education and training.
The evening started with a vote on the motion:  “Education and training are [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Closing a project

May 10, 2010
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Inside PRINCE2

A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management lifecycle.  Closing a project successfully means a good, clean transition for the project team.  This involves transferring ownership of the products to the operational team, and makes it clear that the project team [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Extreme Weather exam tips

April 19, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Inside PRINCE2
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A new way to think about RACI

March 17, 2010

Do you use the RACI model to help with stakeholder management?
RACI is a way of categorising stakeholders to help define their roles and responsibilities, and it is also useful for communications plans.  The most common way to see RACI used is in tabular form – with the letters across the top and the list of [...]

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Webinar: Managing Money on Projects

March 2, 2010

I’m giving a webinar for The Project Management Bookstore on Friday.  It’s on the subject of managing money on projects, and you get a PDU for attending.
From the website:
“The author’s book, Project Management in the Real World, covers five key areas for project managers: budgets, teams, scope, plans and personal productivity.  During this live event, [...]

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Fixed date projects: more advice from the experts

February 17, 2010

Last week we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date.  I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI.  Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem?  I trawled my bookcase for what other people [...]

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BAs and PMs working together (part 4)

December 7, 2009

In this final instalment of the ‘working together’ series, I’ll be looking at how to improve the working relationships between project managers and business analysts.
Changing working relationships is often more about culture than concrete tasks, but there are some things you can do to smooth any blips in the way that project managers and business [...]

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BAs and PMs working together (part 3)

November 30, 2009

Last week I wrote about what project managers value when working with business analysts.  This week I want to focus on what we don’t.
Don’t worry: it’s not that bad!
The differences in the ways that project managers work and the ways that business analysts work means that it’s not always easy to work together.
For example, project [...]

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BAs and PMs working together (part 2)

November 23, 2009

Last week I wrote about the way that project managers work, and how this relates to OTOBOS.  This week I want to explain what project managers value in our working relationships with business analysts.
Project managers see BAs as architects.  They are detailed, they decide on and build solutions, they work in a methodical way.  There [...]

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