Collaboration: More than Facilitated Meetings
Meetings that encourage participation and building consensus are valuable, but true project team collaboration assumes shared responsibility and ownership to boost creativity and learning.
Author: Project Management Planet
Resource Allocation Issues in a Multi-Project Context
Scheduling and resource allocation is a critical part of project planning in multi-project environments. In this blog post, Kailash Await explains that resource allocation issues are a consequence of flawed organisational procedures rather than poor project management practices.
Agile Project Risk Management
The article “Managing Schedule Flaws using Agile Methods” presents several symptoms and causes of schedule problems, describes metrics and diagrams that can be used to track your team’s progress against its schedule and proposes Agile approaches to mitigate these risks.
DO’s and DON’Ts of Motivational Management
In this blog post, Vitaly Dubravin provides some knowledge about to do or NOT to do in order to motivate a project team.
Project Meetings: 3 Steps to Maximize Efficiency
In this blog post, Kathlika Thomas provides a few tips for managing your project meetings and a meeting outline that you can use over and over on your engagements.
Getting Your Arms Around Project Scope
A project scope is about the size of it and how much work it contains. This article give some hints on how to start getting your arms around all the work required, defining and organizing scope.
Implementing Scrum (Agile) and CMMI Together
This article compares CMMI® and Scrum since groups struggle with when using them together and explains why you can use both as Scrum is a good implementation for some of the practices in Level 2 and all the remaining practices in Levels 2 and 3 can be implemented while using...
Build a Tower, Build a Team
This video presents some surprisingly deep research resulting from a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?