By Paul Dandurand CEO & Founder, PieMatrix Have you ever heard the words, “Get your project on time and on budget or else!”? The pressure is purely on costs. The executives are watching project budget numbers in PPM tools or in spreadsheets. Now, have you ever heard the words, “The most important thing is getting the
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By Keith Wilson, B.Comm., PMP, MCT, MCTS, Project Server Black Belt, Senior Trainer and Consultant, IIL Project success means delivering your goods, service or result by meeting the expectations with respect to the project constraints (Scope, Quality, Resources, Time and Cost). A recent study of technology projects found that 94% of projects had to go through a restart,
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By Ardi Ghorashy, M.Sc. Engineering, PMP, PgMP | Senior Executive Director, Global Solutions, IIL What is the secret ingredient that certain people possess and allows them to rise from the ashes of failure? I’m referring to this dynamic that drives them to try again and again, while others are stopped dead in their tracks. This question
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By Keith Wilson, MBA, B.COMM., PMP, MCP, MCT, CSM, CSPO | Senior Trainer and Consultant, IIL Can Microsoft Project be used for Agile projects? Yes! Customizable fields and custom groups can be used effectively to create an Agile template. Custom fields allow you to add project-specific information, which can be used to filter or
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By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL With the growth in project management metrics, KPIs and dashboard reporting systems, companies are improving their success to failure ratios on projects and strategic initiatives. But even though the path looks bright, all that glitters is not always gold, at least seen by those people
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Catch Dr. Kerzner’s keynote session, “How Changes in PM Support Agile & Scrum” at the 2017 IPM Day online conference ON DEMAND. By Deborah A. Dell, PMP – Director, IBM Project Management Center of Excellence and Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. – Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL Deciding to implement a Project Management Office (PMO) is easy.
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Many years ago (i.e., before the Internet existed), I worked with a well-known colleague who was quite proficient at writing books. When I asked him where all of his ideas came from, he pointed to a small pad of paper and a pen in his shirt pocket. He stated that whenever any of his students
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By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM The Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® is the world’s most popular and desirable project management certification. The numbers alone tell the story: as of December 31, 2014 there were 639,237 active PMP credential holders. No other project management credential (of which there are many competitors)
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By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM What future am I talking about? The future of the project we’re currently managing. Why? Because everyone is obsessed with the future: you, your team, the boss, and the client. Everyone wants to know: when will the project be done? How will it work? There’s a lot of
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By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D, Senior Executive Director of Project Management, IIL Last year, I wrote a blog entitled My Most Important Best Practice. In the past several months, people have been asking me what I learned from this best practice. This is good news because it means that people are reading my blog. I have modified
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