The best plans are flexible.
- Bubble Timeline Chart - Joe Smith demonstrates how to create a bubble chart timeline, to replace that drab Gantt chart. Continue reading
- Simplifying Assumptions - Simplifying assumptions are a useful tool for planning, but they need to be managed and properly disposed of during the project life cycle. Continue reading
- Make or Buy: The Blacksmith and the Toothpick - In the make or buy decision, those who make won't likely be advocates for buying. Continue reading
- Planning Project Human Resource Management - Your project human resource management plan will be largely driven by constraints. Here are three of them. Continue reading
- Gantt Charts in Excel - Guest post from Joe Smith on creating Gantt charts in Excel, with a downloadable template / sample. Continue reading
- Thus I Refute #NoEstimates - #NoEstimates is not a strategy for success in a complex business. Continue reading
- Adaptability versus Auditability - It’s not enough to be adaptable; we still have to be auditable. Continue reading
- Identifying Project Objectives - Not all organizational objectives impacted by a project find their way into the charter. Continue reading
- Multiple Phases, Multiple Timelines - I'm about to begin planning for a new project, in four phases and a total of 25 stages, over the course of a year and two major upgrades of the underlying software. I need to make some drawings! Continue reading
- Cultural Metaphors and Project Plans - There are major differences between an ERP implementation project and a SaaS implementation project. Call them cultural differences. Continue reading
- Facts, Opinions, Guesses, and Assumptions - Some quotes from famous people who weren't exactly project managers, but knew a thing or two about facts, opinions, guesses, and assumptions. Continue reading
- Prioritizing With Post-It Notes and a Venn Diagram - I had a chance to use some techniques adapted from David Straker's book, "Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes." Continue reading
- Clarify Roles and Responsibilities Using a RACI Matrix - The RACI matrix is a powerful tool for delineation of roles when planning and controlling a complex project. Here's how they work. Continue reading