Communication: If a project is using shared resources, utilize the risk management process to escalate concerns related to those shared resources. Mitigation for this should include collaboration with the other PM or management. Potential impacts should be carefully evaluated and
Tip of the Week: Why hold a project kickoff meeting? Kickoff meetings help set expectations by discussing the project in detail with the team. An outcome of a good project kickoff meeting includes defined roles and responsibilities of team members, and
Tip of the Week: Baseline MS Project Schedule: Don’t be afraid to baseline the schedule. This creates the ability to compare your plan as the project progresses. Also, multiple baselines can be set for comparisons to replans that may occur during
Tip of the Week: Scope Management: Requests for new criteria must be dealt with quickly. Evaluate the impact and get appropriate approval. If you decide to add the scope, document impact, communicate the new scope and possibly rebaseline your plans.
Tip of the Week: Understanding the importance of clearly defining your project scope: When the project team clearly understands the scope from the beginning, you eliminate the ambiguity that can waste time and budget. Clearly defined scope also helps manage
TIp of the Week: Project Planning: When planning your project, it is important to identify track milestones that are based on the project’s identified risks. Identifying key milestones and evaluating your progress against them allows you to see when your
Tip of the Week: Resource Management: Project managers often have to share resources (people, tools and facilities) with other project managers. It is important to have a system to schedule these shared resources along with communicate to the organization this schedule.
Tip of the Week: MS Project: Just because MS Project has the functionality does not mean it should be used. Click here for more tips.
Tip of the Week: Risk Management: Any dependency outside of the project should be considered a risk. These dependencies are often out of the control of the team and need monitoring to ensure minimal impact to the projects scope, quality,
Tip of the Week: MS Project: It is important to understand the settings and configuration of MS Project. Every action reacts based on the settings and the order of the action. If you do not understand the settings, you will only
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