03/31/08 Tip of the Week: People Management Skills: Tip 1 - Acknowledge people management as a skill.
March 31, 2008
Are you good at People Management? Surprisingly, most managers respond in the positive, yet survey after survey provides quantitative and qualitative data suggesting otherwise. As a first step, acknowledge that people management is a skill unto itself... Read more...
Project Scope Management
March 31, 2008
Project Scope includes managing all of the work required and agreed with the stakeholders during the design phase and only the work required and agreed, to complete the project successfully. Clear and well defined scope is very important for the completion... Read more...
PMI-Montréal Strategic Conference explores the success factors of the Montreal subway extension project
March 31, 2008
Reported by Alcides Santopietro in Montreal PMI-Montréal, one of the most active PMI offices in Canada, with close to 3,000 members, has organized a Strategic Conference in the city to present “The Management of the Metropolitan Transport Agency’s... Read more...
PMI Athens Chapter selects new Board - Giotis elected President
March 31, 2008
A new Board of Directors (BOD) has been announced for the Athens, Greece Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). According to news received by PMForum, Theofanis Giotis was named president of the PMI Athens, Greece Chapter on Thursday, 27th... Read more...
Alexander Tovb becomes International Correspondent for PMForum in Moscow
March 31, 2008
PMForum is happy to welcome Mr. Alexander Tovb as an International Correspondent in Moscow, Russia. Mr. Tovb is an experienced project management (PM) professional with more than 30 years experience in a variety of organizations and industries, primarily... Read more...
Reader Survey #1 Results
March 31, 2008
Over the last month I have had a poll in the right hand column of this blog. It asked who was reading us. The responses are below.I was pretty happy with the response rate. Thanks to all our regular readers who participated. Project Managers 63 (41%)Business... Read more...
Reader Survey #1 Results
March 31, 2008
Over the last month I have had a poll in the right hand column of this blog. It asked who was reading us. The responses are below. I was pretty happy with the response rate. Thanks to all our regular readers who participated. Project Managers 63 (41%)Business... Read more...
Three fundamental agility trends, and their source
March 31, 2008
Regular readers know that I embrace a simple three-perspective approach to enterprise architecture: process, data, and system. All three of these domains are seeing significant trends towards increased agility, at a fundamental level that I think is more... Read more...
What Activities Take Place During the Management of a Project?
March 31, 2008
When we speak about Project Management, Managing Projects or other combinations of those words - what is really going on? By going on, I mean the activities outside the writing of code, pouring of concrete, welding steel, assembling molecules into drugs,... Read more...
March 31, 2008 – Estimating Lessons Learned – Communicating the Results
March 31, 2008
Back in December my 1997 Plymouth Neon was totaled when someone rear-ended me, forcing my car into the next one. It is an odd feeling to look into your rearview mirror and know that the car behind you isn’t stopping. The insurance company sent me... Read more...