Scheduling Misconceptions The project manager’s job is to run projects and to lead them to success. It’s not their job to run software, apart from the most commonly available office tools, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and possibly Zoom or Microsoft Teams. When we turn our attention from the main task of managing projects […]
Why don’t PMs “get” Scheduling Tools? Read More »
A month ago I was browsing on YouTube and noticed that one of the well-established presenters on Udemy at put some of his older course videos online. In fact, he has released twenty-one videos from an introductory course in Microsoft Project 2013 onto YouTube and these now provide a verbose but good-quality introduction to that
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Project Quality is a perennial issue – how do we identify stakeholder requirements and success criteria? How do we communicate those requirements to our team? What activities do we need to add to our project schedule to control quality? In the PMBOK(r) Guide view we project managers also need to understand the broader world of
Project Quality – an overview of Process Improvement from PMI Read More »
Aileen Ellis is an American PMP instructor whom I greatly respect. I discovered her videos after reading one of her short books on scheduling. She has a series of free Youtube videos reviewing more obscure aspects of the PMP Exam with the benefit that they are usually recorded from live or online webinars with her
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There are a few more advanced concepts used in Risk Management that are required for the PMP exam but not usually discussed in depth in some courses on project management. These include the concepts of decision trees and Expected Monetary Value (EMV), which is the statistical average long term cost of a risk (or value
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