Advanced project Management
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Revenue Department wins UN award - Bangalore, Saturday, June 24th, 2006 The Karnataka revenue department has been selected for the prestigious UN public service awards for good governance and innovative projects in rural and urban areas. The department is among 11 entities from as many countries chosen for this years awards. The awards were announced on the occasion of UN public service day, which was observed on Friday. Right click to e-asy governance - It takes just two minutes - faster than cooking...
breakpoint # 30 Do's and Don'ts for e-governance projects Most of the e-governance projects are affected by; 1) Improper conceptualization 2) Lack of stakeholder involvement 3) Vested interests among stakeholders 4) Cutting corners, while under pressure - especially engineering aspects 5) Person dependency 6) Impractical goals 7) Is champion led, rather than process led 8) Focus is only on technology, rather than people & process 9) Infrastructural and financial constraints Do's 1) Avoid ambitious...
The art of communication Every project manager spends around 90% of their time in communicating with others. This include emails, status updates, listening to people, telephone conversations, meetings etc. In project management, it is the senders responsibility to ensure that the recipient received the message and understood it's intended meaning. Hence it becomes an art to communicate effectively, in a very short span of time. During one of my project management coaching programs, one of the participants...
What is your vocation? In the midst of all of life's contradictions, we search for life's true meaning. We wonder and ask, Why? Why am I here? Why am I alive at all? What must I do? No one is alone in posing these questions. Humanity as a whole feeds the pressing need to give sense and purpose to a world which is increasingly complicated and difficult to be happy in. In one of the training programs, we were discussing about the need for a vocation to be conscious about the value of one's own time....
"Aby for me usually I use the Critical Chain method and merge all buffers, but I use that buffer at the start for rest" This a chat line from one my project management training participants. Actually lot of meaning is packed into this single sentence. The moment we know the buffers, we tend to procrastinate work, and in the process the buffer gets wasted. So that is great pitfall, when we start seeing all the buffers as single large chunk as feeder buffers or project buffers. Thanks a ton buddy,...
Self Organizing teams Today it was hectic but interesting. The whole day, I was with some brilliant young engineers. At one place we were conducting a work shop on agile project management. I started with the basics which included, self organizing teams. When the workshop really progressed, we split into teams and started work on the architecture. This grouping was a random selection of participants. After some time, the group again merged into one large group, with two persons at the central point....
Critical chain project management It takes a genius to explain complex things in an easy and simple manner. 'Critical Chain' book by Goldratt is a true example. The entire concept of critical chain is explained in the form of a story, which is very easy to understand.. With the understanding of constraints, elevation of constraints, feeder buffer, project buffer, resource buffer and critical chain, a whole new world of opportunity opens up while scheduling projects. Developed by Eliyahu M. Goldratt,...
How PMBOK© help in Product Development Projects? Project Management Professional certification addresses the general project management concepts, which can be applied for any kind project, irrespective of the domain. It is just a collection of project management good practices, which the practitioners can choose and apply in their projects, based on their project needs. To understand this, let us try to classify projects based on their exploratory factor. In a standard construction project...
breakpoint # 21 Design power Today while reading the greatness guide by Robin Sharma, in one chapter he was talking about the German excellence in good design and about apple's products. Have you ever come across a successful technical project with a bad design?. Do you recollect the saying 'success or failure of a project is determined at the beginning of the project' and the design happens during the early stages. In technical projects, once you get the architecture and the design right, the ability...
Time value of time The conventional project management teaches us about the time value of money. In a nutshell, it advocates the wisdom of investing money in a project, which will bring in more returns than just investing money in bank (NPV- Net Present Value), and the underlying theme is time value for money. During my client engagements, these days I do not see much shortage of money but can see lot of shortage for TIME!. It is high time, to start doing the cost benefit analysis for every major...
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