Making decisions is an integral part of project management, yet most projects don’t have a predetermined, agreed-upon approach to decision-making. This Project Pointer provides some tips for creating an effective decision-making process.
Requirements are supposed to represent business needs, but sometimes, stakeholders sneak in solutions. For a project to create value, you need to make sure requirements convey business needs not solutions. This Project Pointer describes some techniques for scrubbing solutions from your project requirements.
In this “The PM is in” article, I describe a few superpowers every project manager would love (and what to do until our wishes are granted).
Contractors and other vendors can be a great option if you need more people or people with specific skills. But the cost goes beyond their hourly rate and vendors introduce risks to your project. This Project Pointer explains what you need to consider before bringing on vendor personnel.
If your stakeholders aren’t squabbling over getting their requirements into your project scope, they might be disenchanted with the project or just don’t know its status. This Project Pointer provides techniques to ensure stakeholders are engaged and the ideal project requirements are in scope.
In this Project Pointer, Bonnie answers a question about whether it makes any sense to argue over whether project management or product management is “better.” Spoiler alert: no sense at all.
To make good, informed decisions, stakeholders have to really understand the project’s risks. This Project Pointer suggests linking the impact of each risk to one or more of the project constraints—scope, time, or cost.
A reader writes in with a problem getting a team to deliver on schedule. This Project Pointer provides some tips for lighting a fire under a team to complete projects more quickly, and more importantly, on time.
Sponsors often aren’t effective because they don’t know what to do. This Project Pointer describes what you can do to help your sponsor be more helpful to the project.
I spent some time exploring the features of GanttPro, an online project management tool that isn’t covered in my LinkedIn Learning course. This week’s Project Pointer provides a quick overview of what it can do.
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