Team Member Assignments – 4pm.com
When using measurable outcomes for team member assignments, we need to think about what we measure on their tasks to avoid unintended consequences. We want to select the right metric to drive the...
View ArticleProject Manager Authority – 4pm.com
Project Manager Authority PMs often make the mistake of not being explicit about the project manager authority they need to manage a project. Use the checklist below to make certain everyone knows what...
View ArticleProject Management Skills – 4pm.com
What makes a consistently successful project manager? What project management skills are necessary? Certainly there are personality traits, interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate and...
View ArticleLeading Project Teams – 4pm.com
Having a highly motivated, problem-solving project team is a key component for consistent project success. We need to learn the right techniques to use leading project teams through the lifecycle of a...
View ArticleProject Launch Meeting – 4pm.com
The project launch meeting is an opportunity for the project manager and sponsor to build enthusiasm for the project among the project team who will be doing the work and the project stakeholders who...
View ArticleAgile Project Management Lessons
Lately, the agile PM approach has become very popular, and it seems that everyone is a scrum master. Now I have to disclose to you that I am not a certified agile PM. I’m sort of a fan of the...
View ArticleFailing Project Recovery
Sometimes you have a failing project recovery to execute. It does happen, and believe it or not, it happens more often than you think. Towards the end of your planned time and budget, you realize that...
View ArticleProject Meeting Rescue – 4pm.com
There is a strong culture of meetings among PMs. Meetings are the tool to collect, plan, coordinate, escalate and solve problems. Meetings may as well become a time drainer. Project Meeting Scenario A...
View ArticleEvaluating Work Breakdown Structures – 4pm.com
It’s a very good idea for project managers and the organizations in which they work to have to have a process for evaluating work breakdown structures. At the end of the project planning process the...
View ArticleProject Conflicts – 4pm.com
Project conflicts are regular and ever present part of a project manager’s work. For project managers to have a consistently successful track record on his or her projects they need to be able to...
View ArticleCutting Duration
Project managers are frequently faced with stakeholders who demand cutting duration. For some project managers these demands occur once a week or even daily. There’s a right way and a wrong way to...
View ArticleProject Trade Offs
Project Trade Offs: The Language of Project Management All successful project managers always use project trade offs between scope, cost, duration, quality, risk, resources when assessing problems and...
View ArticleWBS – Work Breakdown Structure
WBS: Deliverables or a “To Do” List Summary? The work breakdown structure provides the platform on which you control the project team and the check points against which you measure progress. When the...
View ArticleProject Failure
Summary: Some organizations have project failure rates that threaten their existence. In some cases they can’t deliver to a customer or client profitably. In other cases they can’t deliver new products...
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