Operations :  Project Management

Six sigma has different meanings to different people. Some believe it is all about reducing variation, while others believe it’s strictly a quality improvement method. While reducing variation leads to quality improvement when the target is met, there are broader meanings to the term six sigma and "six sigma initiative". Many successful...

The success of business relationships as an IT service provider is largely affected by how well client projects are managed. Many of today’s IT service providers, small and large, use Microsoft Project as their tool of choice, simply because they see no other alternative and it comes free with their Microsoft Partner Action Pack. If you are managing...

As both an active project manager and a project management trainer, people often ask me what are the fundamental aspects to successful project management. Whilst there have been many great books written on the subject, I always summarize what I believe to be the best practices at the heart of good project management. Define the scope and objectives...

As both an active project manager and project management trainer, I often get asked whether the project management best practices that are applicable for large projects can be applied on smaller projects. This is a really important question and one which all project managers must face up to when managing small projects. Focusing on project delivery...

You have a product development process. You get different functions involved. You produce product development plans. But the schedules move just one way—out. Leading a project is often like living in an earthquake fault zone. The pressure builds and builds underneath until there's a potentially disastrous slippage that shakes the schedule up....

The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of project management and to give a brief overview of the methodology that underpins most formally run projects. Many organizations do not employ full time Project Managers and it is common to pull together a project team to address a specific need. While most people are not formally skilled in project...

Document Sharing Three years of editorial experience in college taught me many things about document sharing. My editing experience was far from limited due either to my interest in a variety of subjects or to my indecisiveness during those college years-I’m not sure which. Not only did I edit for three different undergraduate journals, but also...

Title: Keywords:Description:Category: Operations Sub Category: Project Management Article: Overview Many Business Analysts start a conversation with users by asking what they do. The conversation tends to drift in no particular direction until a thread is sighted, then the BA follows that thread to the end. The next thread is fleshed out and a similar...