Project Management Tools and Techniques Archives

The OODA Loop: Take Control of Your Project with this Powerful Idea

John Boyd’s OODA Loop deserves to be better known than it is. It is a simple and powerful model of the decision-making cycle.

The Work Breakdown Structure (or WBS) is one of the few truly fundamental tools of Project Management. But how do you create one?

The RACI Chart is one of the most important Project Tools. Also called RACI Matrix, Responsibility Matrix, or LRC. Let’s see how to build one!

People need knowledge to work effectively. So, Project Managers need to understand the topics of Knowledge Management & Knowledge Transfer.

When a project stakeholder wants something different, what do you do? You can’t just say ‘yes’… or ‘no’. You need Project Change Control.

Why should anyone sponsor and fund a project? It is your Business Case – or Project Proposal – that sets out the answer.

On a project, we can end up in all sorts of trouble, if we have multiple versions of the same document. So, we need document version control.

Project Scope is simple in concept, but hard in practice. It’s a measure of the breadth and depth of your project: everything you need to do.

Does your Project Name matter? The name we hear can color our perception of a project. But naming projects is tricky, so how can you get it right?

ITTOs – Inputs, Tools and Techniques, and Outputs. They contain the ‘How to’ of the PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.