Project Management Life Cycle

Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders is …

What are Agile methodologies and can it be blended with Waterfall? When I started in project management, waterfall was the name of the game and Agile was not well recognized. …

What are best practices implementations, and how do you develop and deploy them in your projects? Best practices are typically guidelines or standards used in a specific area of practice …

What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a business process improvement methodology designed to improve business processes by decreasing variability and defects. The term Sigma is used to describe the quality of …

Monday morning, you walk into work, and you get asked by your manager to swing by their office. You are told that you’ll be managing a new project, but you …

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”– Winston Churchill The planning phase – What are the key subcomponents or activities? The planning phase in project management is where …

How well are you prepared for contingency planning? They say that you often learn a lot of lessons from other people’s misdeeds or mishaps. Let me tell you about the …

In this podcast, Cornelius Fichtner interviews Douglas Knutzen about how to complete your projects 50% faster. They discuss techniques (that can be applied to almost any type of project) that helped …

What is project management? Project management is an essential endeavor that can help companies of all sizes and industries transform their businesses and effectively execute business strategies. Here are some …

Potato, “Patate” they are all the same, aren’t they? Well, yes, for the legume apart from the language thrown in. So, are closing and terminating a project/phase the same thing? …