Category Archives for Project Management Basics
Project Business Case: How to Create the Perfect Project Proposal
Why should anyone sponsor and fund a project? It is your Business Case – or Project Proposal – that sets out the answer.
Continue reading...Great Project Collaboration: Want to Know How to Assure it?
As a Project Manager, you want the best collaborative behavior from your team. The key is not tools or software. So, how?
Continue reading...What’s the Secret Sauce to Make Yours a Brilliant Project?
Maybe running a good project is not enough. What are the things that will make a merely good project into a brilliant project experience?
Continue reading...Do You Know How to Pluck out the Perfect Project Name?
Does your Project Name matter? Yes, it certainly does. But naming projects is tricky, so how can you get it right?
Continue reading...PMBOK 7 Development Approach Performance Domain: Is it a Missed Opportunity?
Important project decisions: what development approach to take, what methodology to base it on, and how to structure your project life cycle.
Continue reading...Hard and Soft Project Management – The Three BIG Questions: Answered!
Hard and Soft Project Management are often seen as opposites. Here, I assess what the terms hard and soft mean, and why they actually complement each other.
Continue reading...Your Top 5 Questions Answered about Project Management Principles
When PMI articulated 12 Project Management Principles in PMBOK 7, it was a new idea for PMI. But the idea itself was not a new one.
Continue reading...A Short History of Project Management: Project Management Timeline | Video
This video is a bit different. I built a project management timeline of over 30 key events in the history of project management.
Continue reading...12 Essential Things a Project Manager Should do: How are you doing?
What does it take to be a Project Manager? I’ve found 12 essential things that a Project Manager should do… That you should be doing.
Continue reading...8-step Project Success Plan: Your Essential Project Management Template
What a new Project Manager needs most is a simple project success plan that can get you where you need to be.
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