7 project management mistakes CIOs make

CIOs spend much of their time identifying the right strategies for IT implementations, which invariably morph into projects and programs. A company’s ability to implement or execute these efforts, which are often large and quite visible, is what distinguishes success from failure.

The project management of prosperity

How do you know when you are truly wealthy? Your perception of prosperity will most likely change throughout your life. Michelle LaBrosse on how you can project manage any goal you have:

“Becoming prosperous is a project, just like any project you have ever undertaken. The path to prosperity requires commitment, competency, and a well-developed plan.”

Resource optimisation for successful project outcomes

Current critical path method (CPM) scheduling fails to deliver successful project outcomes, in part because the automatic resource levelling systems in most tools, most of the time, produce sub-optimal results and changing a few settings in any of the tools can produce wildly different outcomes.

Planning a project meeting

A well planned meeting requires a commitment to excellent outcomes based on good preparation and strong design skills. I’m using meeting here to mean any kind of project conversation where the outcome matters.

Managing risk and contingency

I was recently interviewing a risk management specialist and was intrigued to find that although he had a huge amount of knowledge about risk and issues management, he had very little knowledge of contingency.

What is an Agile project?

For those project managers familiar with Gantt charts, certification, and maturity models, Agile projects may appear like disorganised chaos.

To you and your project’s health

Wellness has been on the backburner for many project professionals striving to make careers for themselves. These people may have been under the notion that to be the best they had to give up their personal needs.

Marrying planning into your project

The concept of ‘planning fun’ can sometimes be hard for those of us out there who like to live in the moment and who generally get nervous if too much planning takes place—you know who you are! But the moment that you invite others to live in your moment, as you do while planning any sort of event, is when you need to make sure that good planning takes place to produce an event that is fun for all.