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In its broad scope and aggressive timescale, an unfinished medieval “balance sheet” remains an astonishing feat of public administration, the oldest U.K. public record in existence. With limited resources, teams undertook a massive canvassing effort and developed one of the first questionnaires to capture data.
Changes, even when they are for the better of your project, come at a price. But it can be difficult to measure the true cost. Let’s look at five types of hidden costs that change can bring to a project, from the schedule to team performance, and what we as project managers can do about them.
What is the hidden danger of offshore development in Business Intelligence? It's called data security. Offshore development for BI applications puts data security in the spotlight. How can you ensure that your data is properly enabled through the BI application?
Not all of the valuable skills your project team members possess show up on their résumés.
Making a project successful means more than doing the obvious roles of managing schedule and collecting costs. Here are some hidden roles that will help your PSO truly add value to your organization and all of its projects.
Many failed projects contain "pots of gold" that make the next project run more smoothly and more economically. Using the Hidden Values Matrix, you can estimate the positive effects that your "less than excellent" project will have on future endeavors.
Organizations are currently assessing their project management maturity in an effort to improve project delivery capabilities. These efforts are focusing on the important areas of process improvement and standards development. However, before higher levels of project management maturity can be realized, it is necessary to improve the basic management skills of the project manager. This article offers a conceptual model for a hierarchy of project management skills and suggests the prerequisite skills necessary before more advanced project management capabilities can be achieved.
Concurrent product development is not just doing tasks in parallel, but focusing on project definition, cross-functional teaming and constant refinement of the final product based on end user requirements. Cross-functional teams are the key to accelerating innovation, reducing time to market and delivery the right product or service to the end user.
Concurrent product development is not just doing tasks in parallel, but focusing on project definition, cross-functional teaming and constant refinement of the final product based on end user requirements. Cross-functional teams are the key to accelerating innovation, reducing time to market and delivery the right product or service to the end user.
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