Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: MyMG Team

Agile vs Waterfall Custom PM

PM Framework

Going Agile vs Waterfall Approach? Custom Project Management is Better

The question ‘What is better – Agile or Waterfall?’ remains open, even regardless that both approaches are well defined and their best practices are explored and proven for given business environments. Because different companies have different values, every organization needs to decide on either a traditional, step-by-step project management approach or an iterative-based, highly-adaptive method for planning and managing the business objectives. But is there another option, except for considering Agile vs Waterfall approach? Apparently, there is. Custom project management (PM) provides a framework that combines traditional PM methods with adaptive, iteration-driven practices. Today many businesses begin to customize the way they plan and do their business projects to tailor their PM approach to their business needs.

Six Sigma in Project Management - Definition and Success Factor

PM Framework

Six Sigma in Project Management – Definition, Cycle, Success Factors

The method of Six Sigma in project management (PM) determines a specific set of practices and business strategies that enable organizations to enhance the quality of their products/services and to exploit process improvement opportunities. The definition and implementation of Six Sigma method within business environment let establish the DMAIC cycle and follow best practices of quality control and assurance. Many companies today prefer this method to traditional project management, regardless of the failure rate that ranges from 35% to 75% of all Lean and Six Sigma projects. Furthermore, those companies need to consider the critical success factors and find out how to perform their improvement programmes using the popular approach.

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PM Tips & Ideas

Improving Project Management Skills

How can I expand my project management knowledge? What options do I have? Project managers, who’re eager to learn more, look for answers to these questions. For those people PM is the focal point of their career. If you are one of those people and want to improve your project management skills, you need to be ready to devote much of your energy to the improvement process. Here are top 5 considerations to help you develop your skills and abilities.

Pros & Cons of working remotely

Career & Lifestyle

Working Remotely: Pros and Cons

Technology has redefined how people do their jobs. Working from home and remote locations is a growing trend. Many people have successfully transitioned from a traditional to virtual office. With the ability to work remotely comes different effects on how business gets done. Modern technology has changed how most companies operate and communicate. It allows businesses to expand operations from a limited geographic region to anywhere in the world. Like any other business tool, working remotely offers distinct advantages and disadvantages.

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How-to Guides

How to Analyze and Correct Problems in Projects

In order to ensure success, project managers have to juggle requirements and resources throughout the entire project implementation life-cycle to ensure compliance of the required deliverables with the baseline parameters (scope, cost, time, quality). A corrective action process appears to be the major tool that helps comply with the project baseline. In this article, I’m going to describe key steps of the process to help project managers analyze and correct problems.