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The problem with project scope

Is ‘scope’ a project management or a value delivery tool? Project management contributes to project success, but does not guarantee it. Project management can efficiently deliver the wrong result as well as a high-value result; it is content agnostic.

June 23, 2011

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Scope

5 ways to improve IT project cost management

There is plenty of well documented research about how poorly costs are managed on IT projects. Here are 5 ways to improve project estimating and cost management.

June 8, 2011

Project cost management and the PMO

Is cost management the role of finance, the project manager or the PMO? A word on project manager overload.

June 7, 2011

Project costs in translation

Project managers are expected to complete a project within budget, and to do this they monitor actual cost reports against planned budget spend.

June 2, 2011

Cost

Decision-making for project managers

Indecision can happen to anyone, and often occurs when you least expect it. The pause that takes place when you are in the midst of making any important (or not so important) decision is like a comma in your life, separating one idea from the next, and one task from another.

May 23, 2011

Project management at the speed of thought

“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances”—Sun Tzu, Chinese military strategist (c 490 BC).

May 19, 2011