Leading Cause of Project Failure: Lack of Formal Methodology
Pop quiz for you and your team: How would you describe your project management methodology? I’ve been to many organizations where, if the question was asked to five people, I could easily get 3-5 diff...
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Leading Cause of Project Failure: Lack of Executive Support
One of the single most important indicators of whether you will deliver successfully or not comes down to the support you’re getting from your sponsor. Having support doesn’t mean you get everything y...
1 Elo 20100s
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: The Triple Constraint
As we discussed in the video on Continual and Unregulated Change, it’s not a matter of if change will occur on your project–it’s only a matter of when. So how can you improve your ability to deliver...
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Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Develop a Project Charter
A basic practice that has proven to help project success is to develop a Project Charter. You’ve heard that, right? But who likes to create more paperwork? Isn’t this just an academic issue that over-...
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Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Identify All Stakeholders
In previous videos we’ve talked about the importance of managing stakeholder expectations. It’s critical. The first key to managing stakeholder expectations is to identify who they are. Of course this...
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Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Identify Assumptions
Every project has assumptions–things we don’t know whether they are true, real, or certain. Yet we often don’t sufficiently document those assumptions. How does it help a project to more thoroughly do...
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Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Define Success
In a previous video we discussed how unclear objectives lead to project failure. So, how do we go about creating measurable objectives? In this video Andy Kaufman, PMP, host of the project management ...
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Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Create a WBS? Can anything with the letters “BS” be a good idea? From the standpoint of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the center of the universe! You wo...
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