What is the Best Way to Monitor and Control a Project?
Do you monitor your project’s progress? Do you have control throughout the project? As project managers, you need to know your project’s …
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Understanding Planning, Monitoring & Control in Project Management As Part of Your Project's Cycle
Project monitoring and control is a key component in the project management cycle. Properly executing this process will contribute significantly to …
Continue ReadingDefending the Project's Statement and Scope of Goals
If you have been monitoring and controlling your PMBOK(R) Guides, you know that the exam based on the new Guide starts on 30-June. So - what does the …
Continue ReadingIs a Basic Stakeholder Analysis Review the Key to Obtaining and Keeping Stakeholder Buy-In?
Stakeholders can hold the purse strings and the votes controlling your project. Getting key players to get behind an initiative is important. …
Continue ReadingPlanning, Monitoring & Maintaining Control in Project Management: Keeping Your Project Under Control
Project monitoring and control provides an understanding of project progress, identifies deviation from the plan and is a mechanism for making any …
Continue ReadingStandards for Project Management: Portfolio Management (Fifth in a Series)
The Standard for Portfolio Management provides generally acceptable practices concerned with projects and programs, to meet the strategic business …
Continue ReadingResource Areas Requiring Controls and Risk Management: How the Team Can Help with Project Management Project Control
Maintaining the project plan often falls to the responsibility of the project manager, yet the project team can play an important role in ensuring the …
Continue ReadingStandards for Project Management: Configuration Management
Configuration management (CM), is a part of management to ensure the performance, design and functionality of a product or system continually conforms …
Continue ReadingStandards for Project Management: Documentation Management
The purpose of project documentation is to create a set of detailed documents aimed at timely dissemination of information to all team members for …
Continue ReadingTesting and Evaluation and WBS...Oh My! Tips for User Acceptance Testing
User acceptance testing is a core requirement of IT projects, yet is often seen as a necessary evil. Concrete project success can be reached through …
Continue ReadingWhy the Weekly Status Update is Critical for Project Managers
Project updates should be one-directional given that there is a good business process in place that people follow. This article will outline the …
Continue ReadingThe Communications Matrix a Valuable Project Management Tool
The Communications Management Matrix is a tool that plays a vital role in the Communications Management process, which is to keep all project …
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