Your new website must represent your business, capture your target audience, convey your message, and sell your products. To ensure that your site fulfills these critical tasks it’s important that the project methodology you use incorporates best practices in website design and development.
Continue reading “Best Practices for Building a New Website!”The object of whack-a-mole, a popular arcade game, is to use a mallet to quickly knock the moles that randomly pop up back into their holes.
The game requires quick reactions and definitive action to keep the moles at bay. If you’re good, you can put the moles back in their hole, at least temporarily.
At times project management feels just like a game of whack-a-mole – identify issues, react quickly, do whatever is needed to make the issue go away, and move on to the next one.
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We all know intuitively what an executive sponsor for a project should do: be decisive, hold people accountable, deal with the difficult issues. But how many times have we seen projects that flounder and fail precisely because the executive sponsor isn’t doing their job or one hasn’t even been assigned to the project?
The role of executive sponsor is critical to the success of large and complex projects. This is a real role that is just as important to the project as the project manager or any of the project team members.
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ERP implementations are among the hardest projects that a company will ever undertake. They impact every business process and every user and they require a painstaking attention to detail to ensure that the business continues to function smoothly at go-live.
Any opportunity to simplify and improve an ERP implementation should be taken. With that goal in mind this blog post focuses on some practical ways to blend agile and waterfall methodologies that take advantage of the strengths of each for improved ERP implementations.
As a project manager you’re supposed to have all of the answers when it comes to creating the perfect project plan, right? You know, just create a project charter, then define the scope, put together a work breakdown structure and you have the perfect plan! Reveal it to the project team in a kickoff meeting and everyone is happy.
Of course we all understand that there is no such thing as the perfect plan and trying to create the plan in a vacuum is a recipe for disaster. Don’t we?
Continue reading “A Strawman Project Plan – What is it and why should you use one?”
Projects fail or fall short of meeting expectations at a startling rate. According to a 2017 survey by the Project Management Institute fewer than 60% of projects met time and cost objectives and nearly 50% of projects experienced scope creep. So what is it about managing a project that’s so challenging and what can you do to improve your chances of delivering your next project successfully?
