Project Management Articles
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Sat, 22 Nov 2008: A Tale of Two Projects
A short story about how a single project can take on two distinctly different personalities.
Sat, 22 Nov 2008: How to Effectively Track and Accomplish Your Goals
When it comes to accomplishing goals, one thing that many people tend to neglect is that goals must be consistently tracked and reviewed. This article points out the importance of tracking your goals and suggests four different approaches for how to effectively track your goals, according to the different nature of the goal itself. Main thing you can take away from this article is that no matter what type of goals you set, you should always find something to track your progress.
Wed, 22 Oct 2008: Improve Maturity with Capabilities
In today's fast-paced business environment, businesses need a performance framework that can grow over time, be benchmarked against the competition, and stretch the imagination of employees and stakeholders. Capabilities and maturity models can better position your business for future competition and unforeseen threats and opportunities.
Mon, 6 Oct 2008: 6 Common Reasons IT Projects Fail
A project can fail for a combination of reasons. By understanding why projects fail, outsourcers can plan ahead to avoid potential problems.
Tue, 30 Sep 2008: Lean And Creative Six Sigma To Solve Real-Life Issues
Lean Six Sigma is a very systematic and comprehensive approach towards solving real-life problems. Lean is popular for the accuracy in analysis, logic backed by data, easy improvement metrics and quantifiable benefits and cost savings.
Thu, 18 Sep 2008: Lean Management Tools and Six Sigma Integration
An overview of lean management tools and how they relate to six sigma integration.
Fri, 25 Jul 2008: Owner Builder Lessons for the Project Management Industry
Owner builder residential construction projects offer a terrific point of comparison from which businesses can learn volumes about effective (or ineffective) project management strategies and techniques. Owner builders make many basic mistakes. Learn from them to refresh yourself on some project management basics.
Mon, 14 Jul 2008: Tips And Technology For Six Sigma In Mobile Workforces
Many companies have successfully used Six Sigma as a mechanism to improve processes and satisfy customers. Six Sigma projects have been undertaken in various areas, and there have been some relevant changes and gains from it.
Sun, 13 Jul 2008: Six Sigma Training In 3 Easy Steps
Training and education are the keys to Six Sigma success. Successful deployment of Six Sigma projects can be possible if the Green Belts and Black Belts are trained fully to handle any situations in the execution of the project.
Fri, 4 Jul 2008: 10 Eternal Truths of Project Management
In the life of any project, big or small there's a number of 'unexpected's' an experience project manager will learn to expect.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: Things A Six Sigma Green Belt Should Know
One of the improvements of Six Sigma is the definition of quality management functions. Six Sigma borrows terms from martial arts ranking terms to identify several roles for its successful implementation. You will find Executive Leadership, Champions, Master Black Belts, Experts, Black Belts, Green Belts and Yellow Belts.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: Communication Strategies For Six Sigma Initiatives
The decision to implement Six Sigma is just the starting point of a long journey for any organization. Its success depends on the employees who are involved in the implementation of the project and acceptance by other employees. The Six Sigma project involves many changes in the process, thus leading to changes in the behavior of the employees concerned.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: Six Sigma Black Belt Candidate Qualities
When you decide to implement Six Sigma, you have to consider people for various roles like master black belts, Black Belts, Green Belts and so on. You need to decide who will be trained as Black Belts. Black Belts work under the Master Black Belts to apply the Six Sigma methodology to specific projects, and they are involved in project execution.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: Asking The Right Questions Is The Key To Six Sigma Data Collection
The measure phase of the DMAIC Framework involves measuring the existing system. It involves collection of data required to understand the existing process drawbacks and to monitor growth after implementation of the project. It is analyzed to provide a performance base for the process being studied.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: The Champion's Role In Successful Six Sigma Deployments
For the successful deployment of Six Sigma projects, the roles and responsibilities through the various phases should be well defined.
Sat, 28 Jun 2008: Six Sigma: Choosing The Best Method For Listening To The Customer
The success of Six Sigma is dependent upon the quality given to the customer. A Six Sigma project starts and ends with the customer. To determine the quality expected and to understand the process, input, output, and changes required, companies need to listen to the customer properly.
Thu, 26 Jun 2008: Is Process Management Right For Your Organization?
Processes are a set of actions carried out to achieve a desired output. For the output to match the customer's requirement, it is necessary that the steps are followed in proper order. The success of process operation is the focal point of process management.
Fri, 6 Jun 2008: Overcoming Challenges To Project Realization
The responsibility of a Black Belt does not end with handing over the project for implementation to the transition owner. The results to be realized cannot be guaranteed by the Black Belt as there are some reasons due to which the entire project may be in a challenging stage. The Black Belt has to overcome many obstacles and bring a Six Sigma project to realization.
Sat, 31 May 2008: The Most Important Tool in Managing Change Control -- The Change Board
One of the most effective parts of a solid change control process is the change board. While it is one of the easiest parts of the process, it is often not used properly, if at all.
Tue, 27 May 2008: Six Sigma and Service Oriented Architecture - The Better Pair
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) may as well be the latest craze to hit the business world and the effectiveness that it brings about in the company processes is surely noteworthy. That's because, what this concept aims at is the overall optimization of the available resources which would include both, i.e., technological resources as well as human resources.
Tue, 22 Apr 2008: How arguments add spice to your relationship ?
Is your love relationship smooth? Have the both of you actually quarreled before? If your answer is yes, then you should be happy and be glad that it happened. But if your answer is however a no, then you should be aware of the danger that you are facing. Hmm… did I make things sound a bit too scary? Ha, it is not exactly that serious; don't be scared off by me. Well, I should believe that the both of you are just, still in the sweet honeymoon period of your relationship.
Fri, 18 Apr 2008: Fair Trade Lessons Learned From Bali Jewelry Factory Visits
When a company markets "fair trade jewelry," might that mean in terms of actual manufacturing? There is no established standard. Yet jewelry manufacturing is complex and toxic. This article explores lessons concerning safety and cultural issues based on jewelry factory visits in Bali, Indonesia.
Sun, 13 Apr 2008: Short Changing Your Trade Show ROI by NOT Planning
How to increase your trade show ROI through simple planning that helps you avoid the most common mistakes exhibitors make.
Wed, 9 Apr 2008: 7 Steps To Streamline Every Area of Your Business
For every step you introduce into a process the complexity increases exponentially.
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