The move from working in the office to working from home has been a difficult one for many employers and employees in recent times. One of the hardest challenges has been keeping workforces motivated and productive. This has been difficult since employees are riddled with distractions around them and employers can find it hard to […]
In the field of project management, a project management report is irreplaceable in efficacy. A project management report, in short, provides a team and its stakeholders with an overall summary of the project and its current position. In its most ideal form, a report like this is no more than two pages long. It is […]
Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Pyramid (DIKW Pyramid) So once we know about the Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework, it is time for us to start working on learning new skills. Learning, practising, mastering new skills not easy and requires commitment and patience. This is where the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Pyramid (DIKW […]
Project Manager’s Capability and Skills Development As it is said in the article(2) by Merla, E. (2011) ” As a project manager, your success is dependent on your mastery of many skills—both hard skills as well as soft skills”. In addition, to manage the Project systematically and complete them successfully, we also keep on learning […]
Agile Project Management lets you produce minor deliveries i.e shippable functionality in an efficient and competent way in every iteration. It’s an ideal choice for teams who are working in product development, software design, corporate analysis and related domains. Agile, Lean, JIT is the terms which are IN nowadays for so many reasons, one of […]
Before embarking on our journey to understand the mentioned terms, let’s understand Decomposition Decomposition as a means of breaking down scope into work package or work packages into smaller activities I understand that for many of us, the project manager it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have two activities as we usually deliver […]
Project Manufacturing vs Operations Project Manufacturing Project Manufacturing is an operation designed to produce unique but similar products. It takes advantage of common manufacturing requirements (and therefore efficiencies), while allowing for customization into “unique” combinations. Unique orders may be managed like a project. Project Manufacturing is a temporary endeavour carried out to develop a unique […]
Project Risk Management Future in ambiguous, future is unknown, no one controls the future. Even with the perfect plan, no one can guarantee that things will go as the team has charted out. The risk is a future uncertain event, which means that it might happen or might not. In order to maintain good control over […]
Project Risk Management (A high-level snapshot) Risks are inevitable. Whatever you do, some of the future uncertain events will happen on the project. You got to be ready to face them. Project Risk Management Knowledge Area helps you prepare for these unexpected and unplanned events. Project Risk Management Knowledge Area Processes Plan Risk Management (Planning) it […]
