How to Improve Meetings with a Terms of Reference
Create a meeting terms of reference with this template structure and streamline your committees.
Learn how to effectively manage project scope, avoiding gold plating and managing stakeholder expectations.
Create a meeting terms of reference with this template structure and streamline your committees.
Carole Osterweil explains the SCARF model as a way understand and respond to behaviour – both from yourself and others.
What is a ROM estimate? A rough order of magnitude estimate is used to give you a very high level view of potential project costs. Ideally, you’d be able to provide a definitive estimate, carefully created from loads of input from subject matter experts and plenty of research on past projects and their budgets. But…
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Discover the differences between projects and operations examples, and learn strategies for managing both simultaneously for optimal results.
Get tips for developing and managing project requirements, including why they’re important and when you need to rework them.
This is a guest post by Dave Gordon. One of the most common causes for IT projects to slip into “troubled” status is missed requirements. In many cases, this is because the subject matter experts don’t think of all at the functional requirements at the beginning of the design stage. In other cases, technical requirements…
How do you put together business requirements? This article explains how to get started gathering, compiling, eliciting and recording business requirements for projects. It draws on both waterfall and Agile approaches to give you practical tips for your projects.
What happens when you are putting together your project plan and you don’t have all the answers? One way to deal with that is to use assumptions: an educated guess. An assumption is a way to simplify or otherwise fill in missing pieces of a project. Those gaps happen for a variety of reasons, and…
In their book, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work, Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon talk about the 8 things that you should be targeting if you want the change management effort on your project to stick. They say that if your project isn’t addressing at least 4 of these elements,…
Your new project was approved for funding. That in itself is a huge step. You wouldn’t believe the number of project managers I speak to on mentoring calls who struggle to get their budget approved. You can’t do much on a project without some funding behind you. However, before you start the celebration too soon,…
This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed two chapters. Are your project requirements constantly changing? Are you expected to get something done without really knowing what it is that you are supposed to be doing? If you find yourself in a similar situation, here’s what you can do about it. Note: This…