December is usually a very busy month for wrapping up programs and projects. Many organizations like to close out projects at the end of their fiscal year in order to match up projects and funding. During this period, some organizations…
As a leader in a large organization, how many times have you been frustrated that your development teams appear to be "reinventing the wheel" on development projects because they are not aware that another internal project team created a similar…
Fall is an interesting time of year for most corporations. Why? Because just about every large corporation hosts its premier "goat rodeo" event known as the fall budget planning process. One of the key challenges corporations have is determining year-to-year…
The Fourth Edition of "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK) defines a portfolio as "a collection of projects or programs and other work that are grouped together to meet strategic business objectives. The project or programs…
Many years ago, when I was a new First Line Manager, a client had a very nasty technical infrastructure problem that required a team of subject matter experts to resolve. During that same time, our company was going through the…
There is an old saying, “when a ship misses the harbor, very seldom is it the harbor’s fault”. This couldn’t be more relevant with respect to making any major public announcement. A retraction of a previously made public announcement (“missing…
Background Project Management Institute’s (PMI) A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition describes the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group as those processes performed to observe project execution so that potential problems can be identified in…
Background Project Management Institute’s (PMI) A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition describes the Executing Process Group as the group of processes that “integrates people and other resources to carry out the project management plan…
Background Project Management Institute’s (PMI) A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition describes the Planning Process Group as the group of processes that “defines and refines objectives, and plans the course of action required to…
Background Project Management Institute’s (PMI) A Guide to The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Third Addition states the Initiating Process Group “consist of the processes that facilitate the formal authorization to start a new project or a project…
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