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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 the difficulties you face, - Project methods and tools are useful in proje... 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 information is the blood that should flow seamlessly. The PM has to be communicative... 138   57 comments

Project Management Basics While I agree with most comments in this excellent forum on project management - I do feel that sometimes we tend to overstate the complexities in PM. Don't ignore the basics of project management!... 45   5 comments

Project Success Factors Project succes factors: 1. Take proper time to make a proper feasibility study 2. Make clear, transparant business oriented project goals 3. Set up a project organisation based on stake... 41   10 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 enough interdependency to make them a program or one large project. Anyone havi... 33   20 comments

Build Project Support First An often overlooked fast path to failure of any major project is to not (properly) assess the support for the project beforehand (using Force Field Analysis or Stakeholder Analysis or similar), or to ... 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 project and for the whole results of the project?... 20   10 comments

Effective Project Communication To ensure team collaboration and tasks completion, effective communication must be implemented for projects. Communication is the most important tool when handling large complex global projects:<... 19   7 comments

Agile Project Management Methods We have to quit using traditional project management methodologies, especially in IT projects. The right way to go is flexibility. Being agile, that’s the name of the game!... 19   9 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 process?... 13   10 comments

Objectives of Project Management? I want to get some formulation of the objectives of project management... Thanks.... 12   2 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 core elements of the desirable traits mentioned in the 4C's of an Ideal Project Ma... 11   13 comments

Project Manager Soft Skills Why are good soft skills really important for a project manager? In successful projects, project and line managers are likely to have shared authority. The project manager will negotiate the line... 11   4 comments

Project Hierarchy Structure Hello, to close a long discussion between management and my PMO, could you please tell me if a document exists to demonstrate the hierarchy within a project? Between a project manager, a project coord... 10   4 comments

Why Project Management? Importance I think every company needs to constantly change as is currently required to be competitive. Project management is a critical part in this, as is deciding about the right projects, the project co... 10   5 comments

Cultural Factors in Project Management While there are volumes of books available on project management, very few discuss how demography, ethnicity and socio-cultural factors influence on projects outcome. An empirical study recently... 9   7 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 industry, the cause is often the same. The best processes in the world will NOT... 9   5 comments

Project Expectation Management In managing a project, one of the critical factors that doesn't get enough attention is EXPECTATION management. No matter what method or process you use to deliver, you must realize that your pro... 8   1 comments

Project Management Office What do you consider to be the main changes or trends in PMO development for the next 10 years (strategy, organization, tools, HR, other)?... 7   5 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 basically I take care of NSO (New store openings).... 7   3 comments

🔥	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 accept any ideas. According to Stanislaw Gasik in his book "National Public Proj... 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/task do you use it (e.g. email on tablet for status updates, WhatsApp on smartp... 2   4 comments

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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 take place, yet which are often neglected: 1. Are we planning around facts?... 60   4 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 sites. The project is now implemented and we want this to be converted as a pro... 36   14 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's great. But often times the acceptance of the intended change is only ach... 34   3 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 to be in the project, you have to set a good example of what a leader is: ... 34   7 comments

Project Downsizing Approaches I have recently been tasked to come up with a proposal from the prime contractor (we are subs) that will significantly cut my team's hours. What is the best way to comply with this request withou... 32   5 comments

Project Lessons Learned One of the greatest contributions of a PM to an organization is the set of lessons learned. After every project concludes, a formal meeting with all of the team members should be conducted and bo... 26   6 comments

Managing 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 sector in Libya). In my opinion, the owner has a big part in the responsibi... 8   7 comments