| Articles of Interest
100 Lessons Learned for Project
Managers- Reprinted from NASA’s ASK
magazine. 100 (actually 128) lessons learned from project
management. Compiled by Gerry Madden, Goddard Space Flight Center
(Retired)
What is the Answer When You Don't Know the
Question? (Aka Fiscal Budgeting for Project Portfolios Project
management consultant Max Wideman discusses problems with budgets
for projects being created on a fiscal basis before the scope of a
project has been clearly defined and offers an idea of what might
be done to create efficient budgets that match the scope of a
project.
14 Key Principles for PM Success
– Project consultant Michael Greer describes
14 key principles in project management. Principals like, a project
must be sold and re-sold, Deliverables must evolve gradually, in
successive approximations, and Project Planning is everything --
and ongoing.
Agile Project Leadership-
Kent McDonald of Knowledge Bridge Partners discusses the
differences with traditional project leadership with agile project
leadership and the principals behind agile project leadership.
Project Management Best Practices - A Quick
Lesson- Simon Buehring offers a
quick lesson in Project Management from defining scope,
deliverables, project planning and more.
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Use Project
Management- Project manager Jim Chapman takes
a humorous route to describe why project management should not be
used.
How to Move Project Management Out of IT Into The
Rest of The Organization- Dave Paradi
, of Business Improvement Architects, discusses
how project managers working in an IT department can help other
departments trying to learn project management methodology and the
concepts of project management technique migration.
Successful Software Management-
14 Lessons Learned- Johanna Rothman of Rothman Consulting Group
lays out management tips for project managers. Sections such as
“Know what they pay you to do” “Avoid
Micromanaging or Inflicting Help” or “Plan Training
time each Week.” Johanna has given sound advice that
any project manager will enjoy. A good read.
Taking Over an Existing
Project- Things You Can Do- Project manager
and consultant Max Wideman presents a real case of taking over a
project and what he did to understand the functionality and scope
of the project at hand.
Ten Guaranteed Ways to Screw Up Any
Project- Michael Greer takes a comical, but
realistic approach to things that some project managers may do that
will screw up their ongoing project.
The Seven Deadly Sins of
Leadership- Loni Pacelli discusses the 7
deadly sins of project management such as Indecisiveness,
Disorganization and Negativism.
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