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General Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Theory

5 Reasons Projects Fail: #3 Unrealized Benefits

This is part 3 of 5 of a series. To see the last post on “Procrastinating bad news”, click here. The common components of project success correspond to the triple constraint model. These components relate to the three sides of the Iron Triangle:...

adminDec 09 benefits, benefits realization, iron triangle, portfolio management, PPM, triple constraint model Comments Disabled

General Project Management, Theory

The 5 Ws of Project Management

Just like journalism, successful project management answers the Five Ws: Who, what, when, with what money, and why. (As you can see, we have changed out “Where” for the much more important business question: budget.) And just like journalism,...

adminNov 07 iron triangle, Project Management, triple constraint Comments Disabled

Education, General Project Management, Project Leadership

Attributes of a Successful Project Manager: Negotiating without Compromising Quality

In this series, we will outline the qualities you always see in successful project managers. Since project management is really the process of managing an array of business controls, the skills required to execute that are quite broad. Any project manager...

adminSep 18 iron triangle, leadership, negotiation, Project Management, soft skills Comments Disabled

General Project Management, Project Leadership

Leadership Is Taken, Not Given – Part 3: Execution and Closeout

In our last post, we introduced the concept of Defining Moments for projects and their leaders. Unlike in life, they are predictable–they arise at certain points, or “hotspots,” of projects. We’ve already covered the hotspots pertaining...

adminFeb 04 change management, iron triangle, negotiate, negotiation, project cadence, project closeout, project control, project execution, project rhythm, triple constraint Comments Disabled