When might you start a project without a business case?
While I was in Australia, Bob McGannon and I talked about when, if ever, you would start a project without a business case. It was a fun discussion. Click here to watch!
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Can something be too small to need project management techniques?
Bob McGannon and I talk about whether something can be too small to need project management principles and techniques.
How long can I live with project assumptions?
How long should you proceed with your project without validating assumptions? Assumptions about a product’s or idea’s marketability should be validated quickly. Money spent on a product with unvalidated marketability is at risk. Share product specifications, drawings, or a mock-up built with Legos, but produce a prototype to validate your product’s marketability. Key stakeholder assumptions […]
What should you do if you don’t agree with the project business case?
What should you do if you don’t agree with the project business case? The answer depends on what makes you uncomfortable.
What if the sponsor doesn’t want a feasibility study – they want a 100% guarantee!!!
What if the sponsor doesn’t want a feasibility study – they want a 100% guarantee!!!
Top 5 Project Management Skills You Never Knew You Needed
For daily entertainment, here are a few additional project management skills you must develop and deploy to be effective:
Tips for Managing Small Projects
When managing small projects, less is more. A small project needs to be a lean machine, and unnecessary work and inefficiency gum up the works. Here are five tips to make your small projects run more smoothly.
Analyzing Profit and Loss with QuickBooks Classes
QuickBooks classes are ideal when you need to analyze finances across accounts, income, expenses, customers, jobs, vendors. Classes help you track financial results by categories such as business unit, location, partner, or item. Classes can span time and items, too, because you assign a class to individual transactions (such as checks, bills, sales receipts, and invoices) as well as to specific line items on invoices or bills.
Choosing the Right Dependency Between Project Activities
The schedule logic for a project is the collection of dependencies you create between activities. The goal of this schedule logic is to provide a realistic model of when project activities should occur. Want to up your scheduling game? This article explains when to use each dependency type to link activities.
Taming a Crazy To-do List
No matter how carefully I manage my workload, I end up buried with to-dos every so often. If you’re like me, an overwhelming to-do list could make you freeze up and not get anything done. My solution is time-management heresy!
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Microsoft Project blog
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QuickBooks and Beyond
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