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.
Aaron Irizarry spoke at the Digital PM Summit about ways to cope when you have a troubled project. Here are his three ways of getting a project under control. They apply to both big and small problems.
These 5 steps will help you engage your stakeholders and manage the varying (and competing) expectations of the people interested in your project. Find out why communication is the best thing you can do.
Short on time? The best PMI-ACP exam prep book is PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths. You’re here because you are planning to take your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)® exam. Well, you’re in the right place! As well as a PMI-ACP training course, the most successful students also include a study guide in their…
Short on time? Pick one book to supplement your PMI-ACP studies. I would suggest it’s User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn. Are you aiming to achieve your PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP)®? The most successful students also include reading a range of PMI-ACP books in their exam prep, as well as…
Find out how I manage project stakeholder communications on my projects. These are my tried-and-tested techniques. Are there ideas here that you could use on your projects? Let me know if you put my tips into action!
Thomas asked this question during the PMI Learning, Education and Development Community of Practice presentation I gave about Collaboration Tools for Project Managers. We were talking about using social media tools at work for communication and collaboration, and – of course – the topic of information overload came up. Normally I’m asked how to deal…
This is an edited extract from Customer-Centric Project Management by Elizabeth Harrin and Phil Peplow (Gower/Routledge, 2012). It would be great to think that project-based organizations and PMOs would jump at the opportunity to improve stakeholder engagement and project communication by demonstrating customer centricity (not sure what that is in the context of project management?…
This is a guest post by Martin Webster from The Lazy Leader. Search for project management training on Google and you’ll find lots of courses on the topic. Many refer to APMP, MSP®, PRINCE2® or even agile project management. What most have in common is an emphasis on project management accreditation, project planning, risk management,…
When I read Susanne Madsen’s book, The Power of Project Leadership. I was struck by how practical it was. Often we think that leadership is about character and attitude (read my take on the traits of good leaders here) and forget that you can actually practice being a better leader by coaching yourself in the…
Are you seeing any of the problems faced by troubled programs? If so, you need a recovery plan to get your program back on track. Here’s the 5 step ESI process for getting out of trouble — I saw a webinar hosted by them and these are my notes. The whole approach assumes you have…
This is a guest post by Andy Trainer of Silicon Beach Training. Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more…