This is Chapter 3 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Let’s dig right in! Project Management Overview Simply put, project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals and objectives. In other words, it is the science of organizing…
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Project Management as a Career
Chapter 2 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. If you want a project management career or you are trying to find some more information about it, read on. Project management requires certain skills, and it could be a great career path for you if you want to: Want the choice to…
Why Project Management?
Why project management? This might very well be the most important question of all, when you are at the start of your career. Lets then try to answer it together. Also before we start I have to remind you that more information is available here Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Why project management? – the…
Project Management Guide: Starting Out
What made me do this you might ask? Well here is the main idea behind this project management guide: There are projected to be 15 million new project management jobs within the decade. (Source: Project Management Institute) Over the last decade project management has established itself as being one of the core professions inside an…
90 Questions You Should Ask When Brainstorming Project Ideas
All of us have started a project at some point in our life and struggled with it in some way. No matter what kind of project it was, questions had to asked and answered, followed by execution. Once I asked all my questions and made the decision to go ahead with the project, I always…
Building Trust the Key to Exercising Influence
We all know people who have influence but whom we do not trust; these individuals are often referred to as “political animals” or “jungle fighters.” While these individuals are often very successful in the short run, the prevalent sense of mistrust prohibits long-term efficacy and hinders them from building trust. Successful project managers not only…
Organizational Culture, How to Define, Implement and Nurture
The decision for combining a discussion of project management structures (you can read it here) and organizational culture can be traced to a conversation I had with two project managers who work for a medium-sized IT firm. They were developing a new operating platform that would be critical to the future success of their company.…
Project Plan, is it important to have one?
Well, every course, article and training provider out there is stressing about the importance of having a project plan. It’s as simple as that. A project plan will help you plan, execute and control your project, at least that is the official definition. I will like to state my personal view on the subject as…
PRINCE2, all you need to know!
PRINCE2 is an established project management framework that is part of the Best Management Practice (BMP) portfolio of frameworks. The BMP family is formed by a large group of management and delivery frameworks that have been constructed from industry best practices covering wide areas of topics such as portfolio, programme, projects and service management. PRINCE2…
Use This Approach To Jump-start Your Project Management Career
This is Chapter 7 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Depending on your situation (starting a project management career, switching or promoting) you may have various methods of accomplishing your objectives. Starting your project management career. If you are just starting up your career you might find these steps suitable: Find a suitable…