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- Tue 08 Apr 2014 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: Will Your Project be a Success?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10317
Re: Will Your Project be a Success?
Dear Duncan, This is the million dollar question. The thing is, tools for health checks are useful to the extent that complexity is relatively low. In other words, a significant number of components in the WBS are materialisable according to known processes. However, in projects of high complexity s...
- Mon 10 Mar 2014 3:09 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: Getting things done vs theory
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8901
Re: Getting things done vs theory
Hello, This is indeed what generally happens. In my experience, you always need to use a bit of tact to convince your bosses who want to see things done, rather than hear the project management rhetoric or theory. However, you may choose to use PM theory to guide your actions, while informing others...
- Tue 07 Jan 2014 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: PMI PMBoK Book
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8518
Re: PMI PMBoK Book
Hi there, If you sign up with PMI? you do get access to a number of books. The PMBOK Guide, is one of them and is available in a PDF format. However, to my knowledge the 5th Edition was launched in January 2013, which makes me wonder whether the 6th Edition has really come out? Are you sure there is...
- Mon 06 Jan 2014 10:14 am
- Forum: Business Book Reviews
- Topic: Book Recommendation Please!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 112951
Re: Book Recommendation Please!
Hi all, I have heard about "How to deliver a TED talk?" and tried acquiring the book. Unfortunately, everywhere I tried to buy it, I was told it is out of stock. I ordered it from Amazon on October 22nd and was notified on December 20th that it is again out of stock! If anyone can advise o...
- Mon 07 Oct 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: Can you be both Responsible and Accountable in a RACI Matrix?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 62703
Re: Can you be both Responsible and Accountable in a RACI Matrix?
I must admit that there are situations where responsaiblity and accountability are relative. Let me be clear, imagine the project manager is responsible for producing a report for a stakeholder and delegates part of the report writing to a team member. I guess in this case, the team member is both r...
- Mon 23 Sep 2013 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: What advice would you give to new project managers?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8685
Re: What advice would you give to new project managers?
Hi Brad, Undoubtedly,a project manager must have expert knowledge about the processes leading to the expected deliverables if he is expected to monitor and control his project effectively. Certainly one of the most important focus areas of a project manager should be the elements of the big picture,...
- Wed 18 Sep 2013 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: Help, my colleague/boss is disrupting my projects
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9928
Re: Help, my colleague/boss is disrupting my projects
Hi Ana, I can see the picture quite clearly, but I think the following questions might help you resolve this situation: Given the short time you have been in the company. Don't you find her interventions a natural thing to do? Shouldn't you show some inquisitiveness by adressing these issues with he...
- Wed 18 Sep 2013 9:54 am
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: UK/US Software Implementation Project
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7196
Re: UK/US Software Implementation Project
Hi Jonathan, Your question is very interesting indeed. I think the decision making process is quite complex. I know that empirical investigations have been conducted in this area, so what I would recommend is for you to do a search on some databases such as "sciencedirect" for these studie...
- Tue 17 Sep 2013 9:58 am
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: [PM] - How to Organize Best Practice Meeting with Fun, Game, etc...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7964
Re: [PM] - How to Organize Best Practice Meeting with Fun, Game, etc...
Hi there, I think writing a comprehensive list of "lessons learned" in a tabular form may form the basis of what you're trying to do. Perhaps this way, you can get the collective engagement of everyone. But I guess the structure of your intervention must be well thought out and should in p...
- Fri 13 Sep 2013 9:59 am
- Forum: General Project Management
- Topic: What Did You Do Today?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9159
Re: What Did You Do Today?
Role interface between being and engineer and a PM is a complex issue. A healthy balance is difficult to achieve especially if the time allocated to working on projects has not been specified with defined days or hours.