If there is no onboarding process to support new hires, they will have a negative experience at work—and the organization will suffer lost productivity.
You don’t have to be a seasoned project manager to have a negative view of the lessons-learned process. But is it really such a waste of time? New PMs especially should carry out lessons learned as often as they can. Here are some ways to do that...
As project manager for a newly rebooted team, this author supported its natural drive for a culture emphasizing work order data integrity. A key ingredient for the project’s success was approaching the transformation project through the role of a “scribe.”
MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) services today have greater challenges to deal with to meet the present demand-supply requirements of an increasing number of aircraft flying. This case study identifies opportunities that can be realized by slightly steering strategies and realigning priorities with respect to resource planning and buffer management.
Flex for Success: Case Study on Maintenance, Repair and Operations
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The transformation journey is a hard one. It impacts not just your processes, but also resources and people across the organization. This article covers some of the key reasons that lead organizations to fatigue.
In this webinar, we will discuss how mediation, an alternative dispute-resolution technique, can defuse tensions to make for a more productive work place. Using mediation skills instead of imposing a decision, you will be able to apply communication skills, objectivity, and creativity to help disputants reach their own voluntary solution to the conflict.
By Peter Tarhanidis, PhD I’ve been fortunate to have a career that constantly challenges me and my team to apply new approaches to achieve an organization’s mission. I believe that adap ...
Consider how Scrum suggests how to start, learn, and improve. It starts in one place, learns via retros at end of a sprint and teams are to improve via figuring it out themselves. Lean su ...
I must have been living on an island for the past 2 years. I bought a brand new paperback copy of PMBOK 6, only to open it and find ghastly gray pages from cover to cover. Thin pages, many of which we ...
This was inspired from a Linkedin dialog on Dark Scrum. Q: Where can we draw the line and attribute the cause of bad implementations as being the fault of practitioners Vs the fault of the framew ...
Has anyone used "Margin Of Error" for any Project Management effort? Curious to know application of it in PM. ...
I am looking for a reference document that would cover a construction project from its early definition to completion. All the steps that lead to the RFP, ....then construction...and commissioning. ...
Is your business life ‘Volatile’? Well don’t panic, you are certainly not alone, but you should accept that you are part the ‘VUCA’ world today! V = Volatility: ...
Five critical aspects of an Agile transformation are: Understand your challenges Decide where to start Understanding the nature of the work How organizations can improve Having ...
This was originally published in May 2012. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana The time was 1847. The place was the Vienna General Hospital. ...
PMOs are tasked with managing the project assets of the organization throughout the project lifecycle. Thus, it stands to reason that the health-check process should evaluate the PMO in terms of how well it functions in context to that lifecycle.
To further assist in the health check process, this series continues with an examination of the rationale as to why each statement within each dimension is deemed to represent a healthy practice. Up first, we look at the statements in Section 1 of the PMO Health Check Worksheet: Project Portfolio Management.
PMOs can create tensions with project managers and teams, and those tensions can have undesired consequences. While PMOs do a lot of good things for organizations, sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, PMI ranked the 50 most #influentialprojects of the past 50 years—and also the Top 10 Entertainment Projects! See what made the list!
Social media is a powerful tool to help improve the quality of project management in our organizations, but how many of us take full advantage of the opportunity?
With social media, you have less control than with traditional “broadcast” style media tools. That’s the downside. The upside: more conversation! That means greater opportunities to engage your stakeholders in a meaningful way.
If you are looking to use social media platforms as a way to sell your organization and its products and services, you will need to consider which ones would be good matches for your industry—and the best ones to use to pass your messages around.
Dependencies are a fundamental part of project planning, but not many people get it right. Here’s a primer on how it should work.
What should you do to ensure lasting change in your organization? George Trachilis, Shingo Research Award winner, explains this is as easy as 1-2-3. However, it is not simple. It requires understanding your true potential as a leader and transferring the same challenge to your students.
Martial arts principles are applied to first manage the self, the people around you, and the environment around the people, this is very similar to a project management context, and many of the principle are directly applicable and can lead to more positive experiences and positive outcome. Participants will get a basic understanding of these principles, why they are important in a martial arts context, examples of how they relate to the project management discipline, and how to practice them.
Based on the presenter's experience as a practitioner, this webinar is an analysis of the principles of the Earned Value Standard and the challenges of using it in Agile projects.
A PMI-funded research study identified how project staff use their knowledge networks to build project capabilities, and how knowledge is transferred, translated and managed in these networks. We also explored the role of networks in providing mutual support for 'members' and as a coordination mechanism for the project. The outcomes of the study will help project staff, and their organizations, to understand practical network design strategies and behaviors to transfer and manage knowledge across and within different project environments.
This is in the eighth (and final) installment in an 8-part webinar series, A Billion Dollar Project Health Framework, presented by Uri Galimidi. The series covers an advanced yet practical framework which Project Managers can use to assess the health of their projects. The framework consists of eight key project management areas. This webinar covers Methodology & Tools.
We stand on the verge of the 20th anniversary of a curious date: one where, for many reasons, the world didn't end. Y2K was a global project of immense proportions, as organizations literally raced against the clock to prevent their information systems from failing as the rest of the world celebrated the dawn of the new millennium. For the most part, they kept going. This webinar takes a retrospective view of the Y2K project, one of the largest coordinated systems efforts that the world has yet seen; it offers an alternative perspective and far more insight into the management underpinnings of how to manage an effort that was complex, diffuse and world-wide. Join Peter de Jager for a look back at a global incident that monopolized the activities of nearly all IT departments through the 1990s. He'll explore what we've learned, what we still have to figure out, and what we are perilously close to once again forgetting.
This webinar explores what social media can do, what we can do in social media and where we might want to think about drawing the line.
We all manage critical projects for our stakeholders and help organizations succeed in their strategic initiatives. During this project management journey, we often come across situations that require us to effectively use our negotiation skills to resolve conflicting situations. In this webinar, the presenter will highlight the importance of negotiation, key concepts, and share some tips on improving your negotiation skills.
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