Author: Daniel Linman

PM governance roles

Project Governance Roles and Responsibilities

Project governance roles are tools of the governance mechanism to ensure compliance with the implementation standards. The mechanism cannot be effective if there is no the relationships groups involved in the project. Roles of the project governance framework can be presented as a chart. Below in the picture, there are listed three project governance roles:

* Executive Sponsor(s)
* Steering Committee
* Project Manager/Director

project managers top five sins

The Project Manager’s Top Five Sins

If a project fails, then most likely the reason for this is an incapable PM (Project Manager). That’s almost an axiom. Because project managers take the ultimate responsibility for delivering...

Project Knowledge Management – The Importance of Managing Project Knowledge

Project Knowledge Management – The Importance of Managing Project Knowledge

If you ask me about ways to make your project team more competent, I will answer that a truly efficient way to let your people better understand your project is through managing project knowledge. The importance behind project knowledge management is that you can apply knowledge transfer methodologies throughout the project management lifecycle to use the information collected from previous projects and make current project be managed more efficient, and benefit from better project performance.

ERP PM approach

An Activity-Based Approach to ERP Project Implementation

ERP project management involves a set of processes and tools for keeping ERP project implementation on schedule, managing project costs, building and maintaining beneficial relationships with vendors and suppliers, and avoiding ERP project failure through ensuring successful utilization and regular update of ERP project management software. In this post we will talk about an activity-based approach to ERP project implementation. We will review the five steps (or activities) of this approach. The information in this article will be helpful to ERP project managers and other professionals who can use the approach to control the critical phases of planning for a new ERP project implementation system.