PPM Archives - Project Assistants

How Project Stakeholders and Organizational Influences Affect Project Management

Anyone who has worked on a project knows that it’s not just the project teams and its managers that affect project execution and success. This post will identify and examine […]

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Theory

What makes a project successful?

A lot of organizations struggle judging a project went. This article covers the textbook approach to evaluating the success of a project. Check out our blog post The Third Dimension […]

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General Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Theory

What does project failure look like to you?

An agricultural supply company develops a new product that is much more effective at inseminating cows than any other product on the market. They can develop the product in a […]

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Current Events

Cherwell Adds Project Assistants to Expansive Partnership Team

Cherwell has announced a new partnership with Project Assistants. This partnership expands the breadth of Cherwell, addressing customer’s needs from their service desk all the way up to the senior […]

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Current Events, Project Portfolio Management, Resource Management

How to Drive Value When Nothing Is Going Right

The coronavirus pandemic has taught organizations that they need a way to deliver valuable project successes even when nothing is going as planned. It takes a solid foundation of metrics […]

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Events, General Project Management

Announcing: Eliminating Project Failure Webinar Agenda

Our vision is to make project failure obsolete. Many people find that overly-ambitious, so we’re delivering a webinar to explain exactly what we mean by that and outline how to […]

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General Project Management, Project Leadership, View from the Top

The Mutual Relationship between Performance Management and Project Management

Performance management is not just a function of human resource. Project and portfolio management is another great context for this process. Projects are the engine that drive an organization toward […]

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General Project Management, Resource Management, Theory

5 Reasons Projects Fail: #1 Elusive resource management

This is the final post in a 5-part series. To see the last post on “Organizational Rigidity”, click here. The #1 reason projects fail has been a thorn in the […]

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General Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Theory

PPM Is Critical Right from the Startup

When an entrepreneur is setting up a business, they often start with the question “What is my budget?” In actuality, a budget will work best when it’s one of the […]

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General Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Theory

5 Reasons Projects Fail: #2 Organizational Rigidity

This is part 4 of 5 of a series. To see the last post on “Unrealized benefits”, click here. Two million years ago, the climate and landscape of Africa was […]

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