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When studying for a new credential, a certain amount of "knowing what you are up against” information is useful to help study smarter and prevent worrying about certain things that don’t matter. So along the lines of “know thy enemy”, let’s dig into certification and examination design (but you still need to study!).
Your car stops running. Confused, you open up the owner’s manual only to see that it refers to an entirely different car. Although this is an extreme example, this is what happens on many projects when the specifications are copy and pasted from similar previous projects. Through lessons learned from recent events and a large project, this article will show how the lack of detailed specifications can ruin a project from the start.
Project managers, sponsors, and engineers are spending more time on requirements gathering, analysis and agreement than they have in the past. These stakeholders have come to realize that clearly defining and agreeing upon the requirements or specifications of the product is vital for project success and product acceptance.
Change orders are unavoidable in construction projects but they can be controlled and reduced by applying appropriate project planning tools and processes. In this study, the author focuses on the change order cost in a recently completed construction management at risk (CMR) project in order to examine the types of change orders, the magnitude and numbers of change orders, and conclude the lessons learned.
There will always be a reason why some team members just don’t believe it’s possible to give you the information you need in the way that you need it. So how do we deal with the "everything’s an exception" belief without damaging the relationships within the team?
Our Fortune 500 company is growing, allowing for growth in our IT department. I face the challenge of effectively supporting hardware projects within an IT department in which the majority of projects are software oriented. This article will provide an explanation of the current state of our organization, the identified areas of opportunity, and the proposed solutions for these opportunities. Project managers of IT hardware projects reading this article will find practical ideas they may be able to use to function more effectively within a software-centric IT department and the result will lead to improved project performance.
The market for project management tools, specifically those targeted at the software development industry, is in a very peculiar state nowadays. Every available solution is either lacking some rather critical features, or is cumbersome to use, or both. Basically this means that any newcomer that addresses all of the shortcomings of the existing products can easily grab a huge market share from the competitors.
As the agile transformation extends its reach, project management offices (PMOs) face new challenges in delivering value to organizations. By adopting an adaptive leadership philosophy, the PMO can provide expertise for an organization as it transitions from traditional to agile processes. The author suggests ways PMO leaders can align their own organizations ahead of the agile transformation to stay relevant.
Holding more than 220,000 aging and decaying weapons containing 7.4 million pounds (34 million kilograms) of VX, sarin and mustard gases, the Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (Hermiston, OR, USA) could be a dangerous place. This article discusses how the project team at the Umatilla facility safely destroyed the stockpile by a disarmament treaty deadline of 29 April 2012. This effort, which received the PMI 2012 Project of the Year award, was accomplished with the help of engineering firm URS Corporation (Hermiston, OR, USA). The article details how the project team reduced the significant risks inherent to dealing with such volatile weapons and chemicals, especially the risks of sarin gas and VX nerve agent polluting the surrounding environment or a munitions fire scorching the landscape. It overviews how the safety aspects were addressed, noting that an Operational Readiness Review board was established to ensure the site had the systems and processes to safely process the weapons in compliance with regulations.
Many organizations are implementing new, less rigid business structures that emphasize collaboration across departments. This article explores how embedding project managers in business units ties strategic goals to execution. In doing so, it explains the benefits of having project managers as core members of the business unit:
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