Project Management

This article gives the pros and cons to using task constraints. Learn about flexible and inflexible constraints and how they apply to your project.

What are the benefits that can be derived from project decomposition? Is it worth the time to take this additional step when planning a project?

Is project decomposition a good thing or a bad thing? In this introduction to decomposition in project management, Ronda Levine looks at how this process can steamline any project.

This article, continuing the series on decomposition, explains how to use decomposition in creating work breakdown structures.

This article takes the reader on a step-by-step overview of how to decompose project tasks before integrating them into a Work Breakdown Structure. This writer believes a pen-and-paper approach allows you to organize your thoughts into a meaningful Work Breakdown Structure.

This article looks at how decomposition can work with Microsoft Project 2007.

This article explores how to integrate decomposition with project management software. We’ll take a look at the tools in MS Word, MindManager, and ConceptDraw Office to see how they can be used to decompose projects.

This article discusses what bottom-up estimation is, how to do it, and how it works with decomposition in project management.

How does goal-oriented decomposition differ from standard composition in project management? We’ll explain what this term means and discuss when it should be used.

This is a beginner’s article on implementing change management in a project.