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 | | | | | Key Performance Indicators; How to Use Them for Project Success
By Curt Finch Companies that sell services to other businesses-project management, data management, software development or IT consultancies, for example-often track time in order to automate invoicing, but they may be overlooking the other benefits these systems can provide. Real-time access to relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as 'percent billable' and 'completed vs. estimated' can give early warnings of project problems and lead your company to faster growth and more profitability. I would first like to explain what KPIs are, and then show you how to use some simple ones to improve your business or rate of project success that can be calculated from any time and data labor source. Read Full Article |
Re-establishing Communication on a Stalled Project
By Michiko Diby
Five Steps to Success Any study on project failure will list poor stakeholder communication as one of the top three reasons for a project's demise. This brief case study discusses the steps I took to revive project stakeholder communications and move a group of stakeholders from intense distrust to frequent (and pleasant) collaboration. Background: This web application redesign project located at the Pentagon had petered to a low level grind, characterized by tersely worded emails, accusations and entrenched opinions. Project status meetings were held monthly, and sometimes skipped. There were no other recurring communications.Following please find key steps I used to shift this group to collaboration. Read Full Article | | | | | | | |
 | | | | | | 7 Steps to Writing a Business Use Case 
Date: Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT, UTC-5
Duration: 2 hours
Format: LIVE or ON-DEMAND
Cost: $89.99 before June 17th, $119.99 After June 17th
Accreditation: 2 PMI PDUs and 2 CDUs Attention PM's
You can earn 2 PDUs for participating in this webinar! Attention BA's
The content of the course are aligned with the BABOK®, this 2 hr sessions qualifies for 2 CDUs towards CBAP® recertification. They also qualify for 2 hrs of the 21 Professional Development hours needed for initial CBAP® certification. | | | | | | | |
 | | | | | The Rules of Lean Project Management: Part 8
By Claude Emond Using Lean Project Management Principles to Implement AND Adopt LPM In my last three blog entries, I addressed some project management issues as they were happening to me, thus postponing my series on the rules of LPM. I continue here to expand my set of "rules". I will conclude the series with this 8th rule, probably not the last word on this, but the essence of LPM as I see it...for now. Read Full Blog |
Avoiding Conflict between the PM and BA. Part 2.
By Elizabeth Larson Planning Business Analysis Work When I first read the BABOK® Guide, my initial reaction was, "What are they thinking?!" With my PM hat perched squarely on my head, my reaction was "but... but this is PM work!" In my mind I imagined all kinds of conflict occurring as the BA took on more and more of the PM role. After all, as a PM I had done such traditional project management tasks as creating work breakdown structures, activity lists, estimating, scheduling, and now a body of knowledge was saying that the BA was supposed to do this work? I could see heads butting already. Read Full Blog | | | | | | | |
 | | | | | Go Global with your Information: five steps to efficient and cost-effective international deployments
 Courtesy of our sister site BATimes.com The global economy in today’s environment includes both large and small organizations who reach around the world. Change is constant. Company mergers and acquisitions, growth into new geographic markets, new technology and changing consumer expectations drive the need for more information. This world runs round the clock, and information needs to be available whenever and wherever it is needed. This whitepaper will discuss 5 steps IT departments and administrators can take to meet the challenges they face in creating efficient and cost-effective international deployments. |
Keeping Up With the Demand For Data: Querying, Viewing and Validating Data Faster
Courtesy of our sister site BATimes.com As a Project Manager, you have to juggle multiple responsibilities. People count on you to query, view and verify data, and then generate reports. How can you keep up with this non-stop demand for information? Is there a way to quickly and easily deliver the data your end users need? In this new technical brief, read about a real-world business challenge, and how the right tools made all the difference in its solution. Learn best practices to help you quickly and easily find information – regardless of your technical skill level. Read this technical brief today. |
The Key to Project Management Success
According to sources at Genius Inside, never has the concept of lean management been more important than in this difficult economic climate. Smaller teams, fewer resources, tighter budgets and shorter lead times mean that Project Management becomes ever more critical and the decision-making process becomes even more demanding. CIOs, Managers and project managers need to have access to not just the right information, but the right amount of information when they need it. | | | | | | |
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