How To Avoid Scope Creep
What is Scope Creep? Before we discuss how to avoid Scope creep, let’s talk about what is. Scope creep is the addition of new features and functions after the original project plan has been approved....
View ArticleProject Team Assignments – Deliverables Not “To Do’s”
The best project team assignments tell the team member exactly what end result you expect and how you will measure their performance against it. Too many project managers do a poor job of making...
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Requirements Gathering Blunders and Best Practices
Many project failures are caused by poor requirements gathering techniques. These blunders cause three separate problems for the project and each one can increase the project’s cost and duration and...
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How To Deliver a Status Report
Dick Billows, PMPCEO 4pm.comDick’s Books on Amazon The way you deliver your status report determines your credibility with the sponsor and stakeholders. It impacts their level of comfort with the...
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Project Plan for Small Projects: Fast Food Approach
Dick Billows, PMPCEO 4pm.comDick’s Books on Amazon Creating the Project Plan for a small project is difficult for many reasons. One of them is that the boss wants you to start as soon as possible...
View ArticleProject Charter Development
Project Charter Development happens during initiation. The project charter is presented at the end of the initiation and reviewed and hopefully approval by management. That approval authorizes the...
View ArticleProcurement Management Planning
In Procurement Management Planning, we plan how we will go about procuring every resource, human or material, that we’ll need to contract for in order to complete the project. We also specify the kinds...
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Emergency Projects
Dick Billows, PMP Emergency projects challenge every PM’s professional discipline. When the emergency strike High ranking execs want fast action now… they don’t want thinking, or planning. If you are...
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Project Trade Off – Scope, Time, Cost, Risk, Quality
Dick Billows, PMPCEO 4pm.com Project managers use trade offs to provide decision-makers with data on the impact of a change on scope, time, cost, quality and risks. Then the sponsor understands the...
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Project Tracking: Where PMs Build Credibility
Dick Billows, PMPCEO 4pm.com Project tracking is the key to consistent project success and to earning the stakeholder’s confidence that you are in control of the project. It’s the way successful...
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