Risk management is an important and integral part of planning for any business or project. The process of risk management is designed to reduce or eliminate the risk of certain kinds of events happening or having an impact on the business. The much awaited London Olympic Games are not very far and Olympic authorities are […]
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Project managers love metrics and rightly so. Metrics provide the heartbeat of the project and help us determine whether the ship is headed in the right direction at the right speed. There is a fundamental problem with purely relying on numbers though. Optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation ensure that numbers always do not tell the
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Ensuring a motivated team is a project manager’s first and foremost job. A highly motivated team will deliver wonders regardless of the challenges that may be faced. The dynamics of team motivation though are not so straightforward. Its never 1 + 1 = 2. It is more of an art than a science. Every project
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Regardless of the size and complexity of the projects , people are always at the center of everything. Having skilled resources on the project contributes to a top critical factor for project success. Not always there will be full choice around it, but the closer you can build a team which you are comfortable with,
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In a recent HBR article – The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson puts forward an interesting characteristic of Jobs as being fundamental to his success – bending reality. To quote in his own words, this is what he says “Jobs’s (in)famous ability to push people to do the impossible was dubbed by
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As project managers we all look for that secret recipe which will make our projects successful. What are the few key items that we need to be aware and take care of proactively. We look for those elusive Critical Success Factors that can be managed to create an atmosphere conducive for the success of the
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(Note: The article was first published on www.pmi.org by the same author) It is 8:00 p.m at night, and Alex has been pushing all day to get some comments from a technical expert on the pre-sales proposal he must submit to the customer by tomorrow morning. The technical expert refuses to provide comments, citing that he is
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Quality is an integral function of projects these days. At a conceptual level, it is really simple. You are supposed to ensure “conformance to requirements”. Going by the simplistic representation in the project management triangle, controlling scope, schedule and cost will lead to the expected quality. But we hardly live in an ideal world and
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