By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on May 6, 2013
Guest Post by Danielle Garza We’ve all been there before. When it has to happen it can be a frustrating process to go through, but it happens to all of us at some point: a highly visible or mission critical project in midstream needs to have one or more key project resources added or replaced. [...]
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By Simon Buehring on April 9, 2013
Have you ever worked on a project where you asked “what’s the point”, or felt that you shouldn’t be wasting any more effort on it? I have, and it makes you wonder who is really in control and whether they really understand why a Business Case is essential. I’ll give you an example. Some time [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on March 14, 2013
An interesting development has been taking place in my international projects, regarding the allocation of time. Many of us in the business of implementing projects have heard of that very useful device, the “triple constraint”, right? Simply put, it is a framework to help us balance the competing demands of the project by having customers [...]
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By Simon Buehring on February 5, 2013
Guest post by Ian Needs, Marketing Manager for KeyedIn Solutions If your project management has no formalised frameworks, your business may well be losing money. Standardisation and consistent application of project management methods, processes and technologies is a key factor in business success. Project portfolio management (PPM) software provides a centralised dashboard for the meta-management [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on January 18, 2013
As a freelance project manager, many of the projects that come my way are troubled projects. They run the whole gamut: from projects that only require a straightforward readjustment in scope to complex projects that require protracted negotiations on scope, time, costs and constraints. Interestingly, it is not easy to arrive at generalities or ‘rules [...]
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By Simon Buehring on December 8, 2012
If you’re an American reader of this blog and you’re involved in, or interested in, project management, then you’re probably familiar, or at least heard of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide). In this article I want to introduce you to a complimentary approach to project management which was developed [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on November 18, 2012
When an organization has the function of deploying multiple initiatives, the question arises: should these be managed as projects? Or should program management enter the picture? If there is an obvious way in which the projects are related, we may opt for program management straightaway. For example: if our organization deploys a few projects per [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on October 8, 2012
Why is PRINCE2® is the most popular project management exam in the world? By Simon Buehring During September 2012, APMG-International, the PRINCE2 accreditation body announced that more than 1 million PRINCE2 project management examinations have now been sat. This is more than any other project management method. In this article I want to explore the [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on September 17, 2012
Time tracking. Invoicing. Success metrics. Key Contacts. Managing a project can become overwhelming quickly. And the tools we use to track these aspects of projects can quickly become too time-consuming. That inclination project managers have to track any critical or risky component requires moderation and thought. As we know, with the addition of every tracker [...]
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By Alicia Trelles-Duckett on August 23, 2012
No doubt installations in other geographies come with their own inherent set of challenges. Currency fluctuations; centralized versus local procurement; languages; time zones. And those are even before considering difficulties due to the particular technology being deployed, or the source of spare parts, or infrastructure in the country. This discussion aims to introduce a technique [...]
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Alicia is a freelance IT Project/Program Manager with 19 years of experience deploying international complex projects, 15 of which with IBM Global Services. She is certified in three major Project Management methodologies and author of the highly acclaimed "International Project Management" course
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Simon Buehring is the founder of Knowledge Train, an accredited PRINCE2 training organization based in London and serving organizations around the world. He is accredited in the newly released PRINCE2 Professional.
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