Chapter 9 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Starting Out Guide. Let’s get right in and discover the areas where an aspiring project manager should focus. Developing the right skills is crucial to your success. Project Manager Skills An innate leader by innate leader, I mean one appointed by their peers, rather than…
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The Need for an Effective Project Portfolio Management System
Implementation of projects without a strong priority system linked to strategy creates problems. Three of the most obvious project portfolio management problems are discussed below. A project portfolio management system can go a long way to reduce, or even eliminate, the impact. Portfolio Management key questions How can the implementation gap be narrowed so that…
Develop Project Management SMART Objectives
“There’s a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management’s goals and objectives” by George T. Doran was the first reference of the term in the November 1981 issue of Management Review. It focused on the importance of objectives and the difficulty of setting them. The first use of the SMART objectives criteria was by Peter Drucker in his management by objectives concept. SMART…
Project Life Cycle
One way of illustrating the unique nature of project work is in terms of the project life cycle. Some project managers find it useful to use the project life cycle as the cornerstone for managing projects. The life cycle recognizes that projects have a limited life span and that there are predictable changes in level of…
Traditional Project Management
Perhaps the most obvious way to break up your projects into a workflow, traditional project management is often referred to as “waterfall” project management because it handles one thing after another in a linear order. Think of it like your favorite mobile game, such as Candy Crush: you can’t unlock the next level until you’ve…
What is a project? Definition, Elements, Stages
From what I have experienced so far, there is a lot of confusion related to what is a project and what is not a project. So I just feel that I should write down a few ideas to clarify it. So let’s start at the outset and zoom in on the issues. What do these…
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…
Do It! 4 Easy Steps To Start Your Project Management Career Today
Chapter 6 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. I love this question, and I will make a series on it in the near future but until then lets focus on how how to start your management career. There are a lot of confusion when it comes to starting out. What I…
How to learn project management?
Chapter 5 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Let’s get right in! How do you learn project management? Well there are several different ways you can go about it, on your own, through a degree/course or a professional certification. Statistics show that each way you go about achieving that is not extremely…
Decision time, yes or no, to learn project management?
This is Chapter 4 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Let’s get right in and discover how you can learn project management. Learn Project Management. Yes or No? This post will help you make up your mind about project management. Read on to find out what is expected from a project…