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5 tips to have a grip on your critical project
Some projects are very critical from the point of view of - Customer expectations - An early adopter going live who would take a decision on whether to invest in...
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If we plan ahead, are we still Agile?
The other day, one of the project managers posed an interesting question: If we plan well in ahead, are we still agile? And the subsequent reasoning was: In Agile,...
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3 quick tips for project success
Here are 3 quick and effective tips for successful projects based on my experience in handling projects. These tips are applicable for almost all type of projects irrespective of whether...
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Having ‘Mini-waterfalls’ in your Sprints? Fine tune your Team Collaboration
You have completed a few Sprint cycles in the past 5 months, in your project execution to deliver a project or a product. Your features are almost 50% complete. You...
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Project Success: What does it really mean?
A fundamental question asked very often is what is Project Success? When do you say that a project is really successful. Many a times, you complete a project and realize...
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4 Key points to take care during a Project Kickoff
A project kickoff is extremely useful to ensure that all the stakeholders are aligned to the project right during the beginning of the project itself. Hence, if utilized well, it...
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Is the team really working on your project?
Most of the time, we face this question while tracking our projects. “Are the team members really working on the project so as to complete the deliverables on time?” If...
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Positive Risks… How do they help in a project?
We all manage risks in a project and ensure we track them in every review meeting. We perform Risk analysis and come up with appropriate risk response strategies to mitigate...
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How to manage Project Governance
Project Governance provides the project team with the overall structure, processes and tools that help the team to deliver the project successfully. Though it may look similar to an organizational...
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5 Tips to Manage Stakeholders
Are you facing problems in managing stakeholders? Here are 5 tips to help you manage them better. But before that let us understand and clarify what we mean by a...
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How to benefit from a Sprint Retrospective meeting
Image by Ronald Carreño from Pixabay Link to the summarized video presentation: You just completed a sprint and you as a program/project manager know that there is a lot that can be learnt...
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Struggling to Create a Project Charter? Key pointers to help you prepare one
All that begins well…. ends well. How often we find this saying true. A task started well, normally ends up well, inspite of so many hurdle it faces. The same...
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Influence of Organisation Type on the Project
How a project is managed depends a lot on how much control a project manager has on the project and that relates with the type of Organisation in which the...
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Top 5 Reasons why we need Project Management Processes
We all follow Project Management processes in our projects. Mostly, they are tailored to meet the requirements of the project. Some projects need tighter control and more stringent processes that...
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Confused between “Project Activity” and “To do” List? Here is the solution
I have seen many project managers use “To do” list in their project plan activities or tasks, and often inter use these two terms… Here is a quick clarification between...
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6 Engineering practices to get better results in Agile Scrum
Most Agile Scrum projects start of well with a high velocity, highly motivated team and fast paced deliverables. But then down the line it all seems to recede. However, here...
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Importance of Project Management processes in Agile
For many who are implementing Agile, they appear to communicate that they have found a panacea to all project related problems. It seems like they have found a cure for...
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Things to do during Project Closure
You as a project manager have successfully completed a project and are already into the next project where the project charter has been signed and you have been appointed as...
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How to track Projects using e-PMO dashboard – 4
Measuring Risks & Customer Satisfaction In my previous blogs, we discussed on creating an e-PMO dashboard to view the overall status of the project through meaningful metrics across various Knowledge...
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How to track Projects using e-PMO dashboard – 3
Measuring the Human Factor In my previous blogs, we discussed specifically on measuring Processes & Financials(see, How to track projects using e-PMO dashboard - I and How to track projects...
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How to track Projects using e-PMO dashboard – 2
Measuring Financials In my previous blog we discussed specifically on measuring Processes using a consolidated e-PMO dashboard. Next, let us get to know more on how we can measure and...
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