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During last 18 months I have seen the evolution of a project management program. It started from cero, in a while it grew up so fast and the team increased from 10 to 25 people in a month. After that, it was supposed that the growth of the team increases till 50 people. Reach this … Read more
This morning I had a meeting with some analysts in order to review some requirements sent by a client. This client wants an application that allows them to control all the life cycle of the projects they manage in their company. Talking about our PM Framework and doing an overview of it I noticed that … Read more
You have just received a new potential project and you start working with it. You have business requirements, backgrounds, a brief list of some stakeholders and a lot of questions. As not all projects are the same thing, the project tailoring is the process that will allow you to identify the category of the project, … Read more
It’s time to be accountable regarding the work done during the year. In addition we need to prepare the objectives for next year. With it, I spend a lot of time preparing presentations: reviewing objectives, comparing results with baselines, clarifying added value… As always I have to communicate the same message to different audiences, being … Read more
Why Staff Management so difficult? I work in a company where we change of team almost in each project, so develop a relationship based on trust is a continuous challenge for us. Try to get a check list about the issues to take into account about this stuff is difficult, but I have been doing … Read more
Seeing the news of AIG and the spending of $440.000 in a resort and the words provided as justification: “It’s a standard practice in our Industry”, I would like to review the effect of this fact in terms of corporate social responsibility. I can understand that this is a standard practice, but the lack of … Read more
Working on a contract for 2009 I’m using the Preliminary Project Scope Statement process for defining the scenario of it. The client’s account lead is new in the process and one of the things that is doing the process slower is the lack of knowledge of this person in these kind of contracts. Really it’s … Read more
Reading PMThink! I have discovered this tool: liquidplanner, it has allowed me to discover how a tool facilitates the management of the concepts handled in this kind of management. I like: It’s a SaaS and all its advantages, It’s not only a planner, it allows you to add documentation, collaborate through discussions. Each task is … Read more
Imagine a big company where they have a huge PMO with a large amount of projects. Some group of PMs feel that they are doing good projects but they are not getting enough profit in these projects. Why? mainly because the resources they can hire are limited in the market and because there is a … Read more
Something I didn´t found in PMBOK and Rita Mulcahy’s book about this method: Critical chain project management uses buffer management instead of earned value management to assess the performance of a project. Critical chain method adds the large amounts of safety time to activities in project buffers to protect due-date performance, and to avoid wasting … Read more