It should come as no shock to learn that some organizations are better than others at managing projects. There are probably no organizations that have a 100% success rate, and hopefully none have a 0% success rate. However, some organizations definitely perform at a higher level than others. Continue reading Your Organization Culture Influences Project Success
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5 Steps For Tracking Project Progress
Step 1: Use real-time information
Project team members will be reporting project progress to you so make it easy for them by using real-time information. Choose a project tool that can capture real-time task information. This will give them everything they need to prepare their status updates quickly so you can consolidate the data for your overall tracking. Continue reading 5 Steps For Tracking Project Progress
Burberry Celebrates London in Shanghai – 2014
The Burberry London in Shanghai Event as it unfolded last night. Continue reading Burberry Celebrates London in Shanghai – 2014
Use These Four Techniques for Managing Issues
Issues are problems that will impede the progress of your project, and are not within the control of the project team to resolve. They need outside help. Use these four issues management techniques on your projects. Continue reading Use These Four Techniques for Managing Issues
5 Tips For Facilitating Meetings
You’ll get more out of your time together when you structure meetings.
Tip #1: Share the agenda
Prepare an agenda and share it with everyone before the meeting is due to take place. If possible, give the team a chance to comment on the topics up for discussion and to tell you about additional things they would like to talk about during the meeting. The purpose of having an agenda is to keep the meeting on track and to make sure that nothing important is forgotten. Sending out the agenda in advance helps as it prompts people to come to the meeting prepared to discuss the topics. They have time to gather together any facts or to prepare their updates. Continue reading 5 Tips For Facilitating Meetings
Projects, Programs, and Portfolios Explained
Many people hear the terms projects, programs and portfolio, but are not sure what they all mean and how they fit together. All three are structures that allow us to organize certain types of work. These three concepts need to be understood by project managers. Continue reading Projects, Programs, and Portfolios Explained
Five Techniques to Introduce Project Management To Your Project Team
Project management presents a bigger challenge than just telling everyone on the team to do things a certain way. People that are not used to working within a formal structure and framework can sometimes rebel when they are asked to do it for the first time. These people will first tend to get negative and view the new processes a bunch of overhead. To help you be successful, I recommend you look at five areas. Continue reading Five Techniques to Introduce Project Management To Your Project Team
5 Ways To Evaluate Your Project
You’ll be able to assess your achievements objectively and quickly. Continue reading 5 Ways To Evaluate Your Project
Two Techniques for Qualitative Risk Analysis
After you identify project risks, you need to analyze them to see which ones are important enough to manage. The most common form of analysis is called qualitative risk analysis. The risk level is referred to as “qualitative” since it is a quick approximation and does not reflect the rigor of a detailed, numerical analysis. The overall risk level can be as simple high, medium, or low, depending on the severity of impact and the probability of the event occurring.
There are many techniques for performing qualitative risk analysis. Here are two examples. Continue reading Two Techniques for Qualitative Risk Analysis
Love the Michael Kors Timeless Green
We do not need any introduction to Michael Kors but I still have to say that he is one of the most eccentric designers on the planet. I want to bring to spotlight what I would like to label as the Timeless Michael Kors Green. Continue reading Love the Michael Kors Timeless Green
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