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I’m happy, I’m going to lead an improvement plan on a global asset management service. It’s not a big deal, nevertheless the idea of understanding the asset management lifecycle, the billing processes of the assets, the way that this type of services are managed and the standard processes that govern it…. it’s what makes me … Read more
Typical projects where you compose a team to build something through a project execution uses to have a non written law about the percentage of management you need on each project. For us it’s something around 15% of the total time of the project. We are working now for a client where the infrastructure projects … Read more
Mosaicproject’s Blog published an interesting set of PMP questions, I think they are very useful, why? They are PMBok 4 aligned, The answers are very well commented, with explanations and the reference in PMBok, Some of them are related to concepts that go unnoticed when you read the book. First try I only made 50%, … Read more
We are working on a project that needs some changes. The “easy” solution for the project is perform some actions that lessons learned from previous similar projects say that this “easy” solution has negative consequences on the budget of the project. The account manager has clear that this is not the right solution, nevertheless the … Read more
One of our clients have their own management framework, but the grade of implementation into the company is not right: they have the papers, but just that. Last week someone made me a question: Why do you consider our pm framework as something good? And my answer was simple: to not have the problems that … Read more
This is something I want to remind, (Explained on May 2009)
Last week we were doing an internal project assurance on some projects. One of the PM was taking into consideration to show the client the need to perform some changes on the project scope. To mention these changes was the only thing he got ready for that internal session, previous to the customer meeting. We … Read more
How useful they are, this is all I can tell you today 🙂 . There are thousand of methods to ensure your delivery: check-list, best practices…. but other necessary step of this process is to say “…eh man, can you have a look to this plan?…” I always try to do it, and today I … Read more
I’m doing an estimating training and working on an estimation tool for a local client. This is keeping me concentrating on this knowledge area. I’m happy about it. The tool I’m doing needs to balance best practices and simplicity. I can include a lot of features that helps to do better estimations but the key … Read more
As you probably know, that’s what you can listen in more projects that you expect. I have seen how people look at the planning asking themselves “why the project does not run as expected??. They perform continuous analysis of EV, SPI, CPI…. Sometimes, they check the estimation to reduce other tasks that are not affected … Read more