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Planning: Setting a course of action to achieve a desired Goal. Your 'Plan' is that course of action "Plan your work and work your plan" is an adage we hav...

You may already know about 5W & 2H. This refers to the questions What, Why, When, How, Where, Who, and How Much, listed in a poem by Rudyard Kipling. In pro...

The second question to ask, even before you have really started working on your project, is "Who are the Stakeholders?" A stakeholder is anyone who has somet...

So you know why your project exists and you have found who your stakeholders are. You are now ready to initiate your project. (Useful definitions) The pr...

You are now ready to start working on the Scope of your project. The Scope of a project answers the questions "What" will you actually do, and "Where" will y...

"Running out of Time! What time is it? If we don't have the time to do it right the first time, when will we ever find the time to do it over? Are we there y...

We previously looked at Scope, which told us "What and Where". Then we looked at Time, which told us "When". This section deals with Cost, answering the ques...

What is Quality? How can I get Quality into my projects? We can all agree it is a good thing, and I would like my project to have lots of it (wouldn't I?) Th...

Human Resources: "It isn't the thing we do, it's the thing that runs our business". Steve Wynn, Wynn Las Vegas Project Team: A set of individuals who suppor...

Physical Resources are: Equipment, Materials, Supplies, Facilities, and Infrastructure that are utilized by your project, or become a part of your project de...

" Mr. Watson, come here - I want to see you." Alexander Graham Bell (1876) As Professional Project Managers we spend 80% or more of our time communicating. W...

At some point of time in your project you will need to acquire something from an organization outside of your project team. To acquire such goods and/or serv...

If you have been following the project steps, as sequenced on this website, you have already Planned: Stakeholder Engagement, Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, HR,...

Do you manage a few large projects? Do you manage several smaller projects? What is the best approach for these 2 scenarios? MANAGING LARGE PROJECTS In Plann...

The Monitor and Control phase of your project consists of reviewing your project against the approved plans to identify variations from the plan (monitoring...