How To Speed Up Your Project? Practical Advice The project schedule is one of the pain points in project management. So, naturally, as a Project Manager, you would like to have optimal time to execute your initiative and account for all the significant risks to avoid those miserable conversations about …
Business Analyst To Project Manager: Real Experience
Business Analyst To Project Manager: Real Experience If you are a business analyst (BA) and consider becoming a project manager (PM), you are in the right place. I have been in your shoes and successfully transitioned to a Project Management role. Indeed, becoming a project manager from a business analyst …
Disadvantages Of Project Management: Evaluation
Disadvantages of project management: Project Manager’s Evaluation Managing projects is fantastic, yet, we do not talk much about the disadvantages project management and manager may face. I have been running projects for multiple years now and have seen the dark side as well. Let’s talk! The most significant disadvantage …
What To Do When A Project Is Over Budget? Fix It
What To Do When A Project Is Over Budget? Even if you are the best project manager in the world, your project can go over budget. Have you just realised after monitoring and controlling that you will not complete your project with the assigned funds!? Not all is lost! But …
What Happens When A Project Goes Over Budget? Prevent It
What Happens When A Project Goes Over Budget? There are many reasons why projects are failing, but one of the most sensitive is going over budget. Usually, at the beginning of the year, businesses plan their resources and allocate budgets to projects expected to generate growth or optimisations. When a …
How to be Successful in Project Management, Your Guide
How to be Successful in Project Management Your Guide to Running Projects and Avoiding Pitfalls If you are reading this post, you must be interested in project management; learning what it is made from, or just having everything in one place as a reminder. Well, I have great news for …
How do you efficiently achieve great stakeholder management?
How do you efficiently achieve great stakeholder management? Winning Support for Your personal goals & projects with stakeholder management Any personal endeavour will be dependent on the people around you. Therefore, it would be wise to align their interest with yours. But how can you do that; where to turn …
What Is A Steering Committee, a.k.a. SteerCo? Plus, 10 Tips
What Is A Steering Committee, a.k.a. SteerCo? Plus, 10 Tips to Reach Great Results I remember my first time in a Steering Committee (a.k.a. SteerCo). You have all those senior executives who make difficult decisions all day long: who to hire, who to fire, where to invest, and you just …
What Is The Difference Between Sprint and Scrum?
What is the difference between Sprint and Scrum? If you are new to project management, you will soon hear many new terms thrown around like Agile, Scrum or Sprint, and it may be not clear the way they relate to each other. Today, we will try to alleviate some of …
SARAH Model Of Change: The Change Curve For Projects
SARAH Model Of Change: The Change Curve For Projects WHAT IS THE CHANGE CURVE OR SARAH MODEL? SARAH model of change helps to explain the emotions people experience in changing environments like projects. See, no one likes change! Yet, working on a project, you only deal with change, and we …
PESTLE In Project Management: What Do You Need To Know?
PESTLE In Project Management: What Do You Need To Know? Let’s talk about PESTLE Analysis and how you can use it to make a successful business change. Organisations are always looking to improve and grow, and the way they achieve is via new projects. The right tools like PESTLE help organisations’ and …
Non-functional Vs Functional Requirements, How to be Successful?
Non-functional Vs Functional Requirements, How to be Successful? Avoid Scope Creep, save time & money with The Accurate Definition of Requirements. When I have started working in the project world eight years ago, I had no clue about the differences between functional and non-functional requirements (table below). Through years and gained experience, I …
