Strategic Planning

In environments where everything is a top priority, nothing is a top priority. A key responsibility of senior leadership is ruthless project prioritization, leaving no doubt as to the organization’s …

Progressive elaboration is a key concept in the discipline of project management. Projects are always evolving and often require a detailed project manager to revisit baselines and modify them with …

In this podcast, Cornelius Fichtner interviews Rich Maltzman and Jim Stewart. They discuss the importance of facilitating a project planning meeting. This is where the book How to Facilitate Productive Project …

An essential domain of project management is risk management. Every project has its risks, and to successfully achieve your enterprise risk management objectives, you must set objectives and develop a …

The Project Management Office (PMO) – Where are we and how to re-focus? From humble beginnings creating plans, tracking schedules and monitoring budgets, most PMO practitioners have seen their landscape …

As project managers, we often have our plate full when it comes to tracking and documenting the success or failure of a planned outcome. We do tend to focus on …

Interested in finding out more about project kick-off meeting rules? Used in most organizations to usher the start of a new project, the kick-off meetings have become a key if …

In this PMWorld 360 video, Alison Mills-Long discusses how to create a detailed quality management plan, and what should be included in the plan. She provides details on each component …

Project dashboards reflect the health of a project through graphic indicators such as; the status, schedule, cost, health, etc. These are intended to quickly and easily provide visibility into the …

One of the things I’ve been saying about project management for a very long time is that it needs to be able to scale down. Over the long term, senior …