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Project Success Factors Project succes factors: 1. Take proper time to make a proper feasibility study 2. Make clear, transparant busi (...) 41   10 comments

Objectives of Project Management? I want to get some formulation of the objectives of project management... Thanks. (...) 12   2 comments

Demography, Ethnicity, and Socio-cultural Factors in Project Management While there are volumes of books available on project management, very few discuss how demography, ethnicity and socio- (...) 9   7 comments

Project Expectation Management In managing a project, one of the critical factors that doesn't get enough attention is EXPECTATION management. No (...) 8   1 comments

Measuring the CUSTOMER Outcome of a Project The following questions are intended to measure customer outcome of projects. - When are projects successfully mana (...) 7   3 comments

The Relations Between Project Management and Selling Project management involves quite a bit of selling. There will be times when you'll have to rely heavily on your ability (...) 6   2 comments

Projects are Primarily Social Systems Leading projects will be most successful if the project managers would realize that projects are social systems. Al (...) 5   1 comments

Why Soft Skills are Crucial for Project Managers In successful projects, project and line managers are likely to have shared authority. The project manager will negotiat (...) 5

🔥	NEW National Public Projects Implementation System (NPPIS) I would like to know the key elements to be considered when designing a project to be implemented at that level. I accep (...) 3   2 comments

The Use of Mobile Devices in Project Management Does anyone of you use a mobile device (like a tablet, smart phone) when managing projects? If so, for what purpose (...) 2   4 comments

How to Prepare Project Reviews? How you prepare your project review report once a projects gets completed? I work in a apparel industry in India and bas (...) 1   2 comments

Community Development Approach Many development workers do not empower communities to be more proactive in implementing their own development programs (...) 1   2 comments

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The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word MANAGEMENT In my opinion the most important thing in project management that many people overlook is in the word MANAGEMENT. Of all (...) 154   69 comments

The 4C's of an Ideal Project Manager To be excellent, a project manager should be: - Communicative - Communication is the artery of any project and info (...) 138   57 comments

Best Practice: Five Crucial Project Conversations The success or failure of major projects can be predicted by examining the quality of 5 crucial conversations that must (...) 60   4 comments

Don't Ignore the Basics of Project Management While I agree with most comments in this excellent forum on project management - I do feel that sometimes we tend to ove (...) 45   2 comments

Human Behavior and Project Management Even if there is control and knowledge of all techniques, methods and approaches, the most crucial aspect of a project i (...) 37   6 comments

Project Transition into the Operational Activities If you have achieved project support, and you had a good project leader who managed the project through to delivery that (...) 34   4 comments

Leadership in Project Management I think Rod Chambers is right, leading is the right way in managing a project. If there is a need to stay late, you have (...) 34   8 comments

Tracking Policies and Procedures.. Without the Big Bucks Any recommendations on how to track the progress of policies and procedure that are being updated or written... Without (...) 33   5 comments

Criteria Program versus Project? I am trying to develop general criteria for determining if a group of projects should stay projects or if there is enoug (...) 33   19 comments

How to Convert a Project into a Road Map for Product Development? Please suggest me: we started a project and successfully implemented it for two different customers and at two different (...) 33   14 comments

Approaches for Project Downsizing I have recently been tasked to come up with a proposal from the prime contractor (we are subs) that will significantly c (...) 32   5 comments

Project Manager? Keep the BIG Picture in Focus A PM can only be successful if he keeps the BIG picture in focus. The big picture is the goals and objectives that he s (...) 32   5 comments

Project Quality Management for EPC As the Quality Assurance (QA) manager for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects I have developed a se (...) 30   8 comments

Project Lessons Learned One of the greatest contributions of a PM to an organization is the set of lessons learned. After every project con (...) 26   6 comments

Build Project Support first An often overlooked fastpath to failure of any major project is to not (properly) assess the support for the project bef (...) 22   3 comments

Creating Ownership in the Project Team How can the project manager/director make every member of the project team feel responsible for his mission in the proje (...) 20   10 comments

Agile Project Management Methods We have to quit using traditional project management methodologies, especially in IT projects. The right way to go is fl (...) 19   9 comments

Effective Project Communication To ensure team collaboration and tasks completion, effective communication must be implemented for projects. Commun (...) 19   7 comments

What is a Programme? A program is more than a collection of projects towards a common goal: 1. First, a program consists of various and (...) 14   3 comments

What are the Basic Steps of Implementing a New Project? Can someone help me answer the question, please: What are the basic elements while implementing a new project? (...) 12   4 comments

Are Project Managers Born or Made? It is worth considering whether project managers are born or made. If they are born, there is an assumption that co (...) 11   13 comments

Hierarchy in Project Management Hello, to close a long discussion between management and my PMO, could you please tell me if a document exists to demons (...) 10   6 comments

Why Project Management? Importance I think every company needs to constantly change as is currently required to be competitive. Project management is (...) 10   5 comments

Priority: Deliver the Project Many PM's have become blinded by paperwork and process. Having witnessed time and again large failures in government and (...) 9   5 comments

Delays of Projects Caused by Owner Kindly I am doing a PhD on the impact of the management policies and procedures on the delay of projects (in the public (...) 8   7 comments

How to Prepare for PMP Certification? Hi All, I am new to 12manage.com, I would like to prepare for PMP certification, can someone please let me know how (...) 8   7 comments

Project Manager versus Business Analyst How is the role of a project manager different from business analyst? Is a project manager required to know the business (...) 7   10 comments

Trends in Project Management Offices What do you consider to be the main changes or trends in PMO development for the next 10 years (strategy, organization, (...) 7   3 comments

Project Management in Private Sector Versus Public Sector What are the differences and similarities expected of project managers in the private sector versus the public sector? (...) 6   3 comments

What is the Value of PMP Certification? What value does PMP certification add to your resume? Do companies prefer PMP certified professionals over those th (...) 5   16 comments

Earliest Event Time Definition Does anyone have the definition of "Earliest Event Time", unfortunately I can't find it anywhere. They do have Earliest (...) 5   3 comments