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Project Planning
As projects become more complicated and involve more people and steps, the importance of project planning increases. Learn more about how to optimize project success throught the use of effective project planning.
Michael Greer's Project Post Mortem Review Questions
By Michael Greer:
It's important for project managers and team members to take stock at the end of a project and develop a list of lessons learned so that they don't repeat their mistakes in the next project. Typically such reviews are called post-project reviews or "post mortems." I recommend a two step process for conducting these reviews:
Knowledge Management - Lessons Learned and How To Identify Them (Expert Advice)
By Chris Collison:
One of the most critical tasks to plan on completing for any project is almost always the last task to complete. It is often identified simply as 'lessons learned'. This article provides the ten easy steps to identifying what went right and what went wrong in the project and what to do about repeating the success or ensuring that the negative aspects of the project are not repeated.
Expert Project Management: Scope-Pak Project Planning
By Max Wideman:
Scope-Pak Project Planning - in Eight Simple Steps is a
simple planning technique that you can use to quickly get your project up and running, organized and under control.
Successful Projects: It's Not Rocket Science
By Duncan Haughey:
There is often a misconception that managing an IT project is difficult. Avoiding the common pitfalls of IT project management is not rocket science, it is simply a case of taking some sensible measures. This article identifies 5 killer mistakes of project management and their solutions.
Managing Problems As Projects: Problem Management in IT
By NA:
Consider this description of problem management - an error condition leads to research, research leads to corrective action, and corrective action results in resolution. Wishful thinking or accurate description? Perhaps a bit of both .....
How to Wow
By Cheryl Dahle:
Meet three project experts who can teach you the Art of Wow!
Expert Project Management - Simple Answers to Simple Questions
By Max Wideman:
Originally I wrote this for one of my clients in 1991. The idea was to develop a brochure to promote project management in one of the client's departments. Today, project management is well established in the organization, but the answers to the questions are just as necessary.
The Planning Cycle
By n a:
The Planning Cycle brings together all aspects of planning into a coherent, unified process. Learn how to use this planning process for your middle-sized projects. Learn how to make your next mid-sized project a success.
Project Managment: Land the Plane Stop
By Barbara Callan-Bogia:
These are ten essential project planning tips that will help with projects at home as well as at work. Don't forget to build a contingency plan and documenting lessons learned during the project are two tips worth reading. See the article for the other great eight tips
Michael Greer's 14 Key PM Principles
By Michael Greer:
This web-published article by Michael Greer is an excerpt from "Chapter 6: Planning and Managing Human Performance Technology Projects," Handbook of Human Performance Technology, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1999
Project planning: The Really Creative 1st Step
By Dick Billows, PMP:
Instead of defining the measurable results, many PMs and their sponsors focus on the bells and whistles of the project's tasks. This is the activity trap, and it is an evil thing. When a PM dives head first into the gunk of the activity trap, the project planning takes the form of horse-trading. "Okay, if you can add your favorite task, then I get to add mine!" Most importantly, no one has agreed on what the project will achieve.
Gantt Charts - How to schedule complex projects
By n a:
This article will help you understand how setting up and maintaining a gantt chart can benefit a project manager. Also provided is a step-by-step description of how to set up a gantt chart as a tool to manage your next complex project.
Michael Greer's 20 PM Actions/Results
By Micheal Greer:
The 20 Key Project Manager Actions are organized according to their support of the Five Essential Project Management Processes: initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. This is a must-read for project leaders planning their next project.
Project Planning Using Specifications
By Gerard M. Blair:
A specification is the definition of your project: a statement of the problem, not the solution. Normally, the specification contains errors, ambiguities, misunderstandings and enough rope to hang you and your entire team.
Planning A Project
By Gerard M. Blair:
The success of a project will depend critically upon the effort, care and skill you apply in its initial planning. This article looks at the creative aspects of this planning.
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- Business Planning - General
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- Scenario Planning and Contingency Planning
Updated On:
11-May-2012
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