What We Can Learn From The Apollo 13 Re-plan
“Huston,we’ve got a problem” these legendary words were by astronaut James Lovell from Apollo 13 to the mission control in Huston when the team on-board discovered the the damage to the service module caused by an oxygen tank blow-up cutting down power and water supply. With 58 hours into the lunar mission, the priorities of the [...]
Top 5 Project Management Time Suckers & How To Manage Them
Running out of time? Need to multitask? Cannot prioritize? Too many deliverables? As projects continue to grow, a project manager is often found caught in the above situations and as a result they often fall back to time management and productivity strategies, however that is like going for the cure without actually paying attention to [...]
How Worthy are Your Status Reports
How worthy are your status reports ? This is a question that every project manager should ask before he or she starts publishing them. Check the Dilbert above It is well acknowledged , that a status report is a key tool to communicate information to your stakeholders. But these reports can go beyond than just [...]
Why Project Estimates Fail
Enjoyed the Dilbert? OK,Many of you might recognize the above situation. One of items on the list of things that Project, Program or Portfolio Managers dread the most are, Project Estimations.(Yes, this list also has scope creep, random changes request and zombies too among other things.). Of-course, it need not be that way. Projects are [...]
On EP3M and Some Myth Busting
Keeping with the spirit of my last post on the Key Areas where an Enterprise Project Management solution must focus, I wanted to dedicate the current post to cover the broader topic of Enterprise Project, Program And Portfolio Management System and introduce probably a new acronym EP3M (P3 read as PPP) .Why does Enterprise Project, [...]
5 Key Areas Where An Enterprise Project Management Solution Must Focus.
My last week’s visit to the Oracle Open World in San Francisco predominantly consisted of attending the Enterprise Project Management Solutions (EPM) sessions and interacting with people who had an Enterprise Project Management solution implemented in their organizations .While still high on these sessions and discussions, felt just appropriate to look at the key areas [...]
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