Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Daniel Linman

programme risk and opportunities

How-to Guides

How to Respond to Programme Threats and Opportunities

rogramme risk management is a series of processes and activities targeted to identifying, evaluating, responding to, and controlling any threats and opportunities that surround a programme (within a project or business process). Managing programme risks is a great way to make a programme feasible and pave the way for good strategic, operational, project and programme management. Responding to programme threats and opportunities is an integral part of the programme risk management process. In this article we will talk about several ways for responding to programme risks and taking opportunities for improvement project and programme management. Let’s start with responses to programme threats and then describe responses to programme opportunities.

IT Project Outsourcing

IT & Software

IT Outsourcing Service for Project Management

IT project outsourcing is one of the central questions that are discussed by people involved in outsourced IT project management. The challenge is that it’s hard to reach cost-effective management of outsourced IT projects because such projects are highly individualized and often have special needs. IT and software project outsourcing requires a special approach to budgeting and planning, which is different from in-house IT project setup and management. In this article we’ll talk about the challenge for outsourced IT project management and describe a few services that help cost-effectively manage IT outsourcing activities.

project scope management

PM Tips & Ideas

Managing Scope for Project Success

Can you start a new project without having a clear scope statement? Perhaps, you can’t. The project scope management process is required to make a stable foundation for scope. Implementation of the process ensures project success. Project scope management is essential because it helps teams make scope unambiguous and carefully managed. The project scope management process provides a formalized set of procedures for stating, executing, tracking and controlling scope. In this article we’ll focus on the goals and functions of the process. I hope the information written in the article will give a better understanding of project scope management and help you plan and do your projects more efficiently.

risk management template

Templates

Project Risk Management Template

The Project Risk Management Template describes the process for risk identifying, describing, prioritizing, responding and control to show how to increase the probability that project is accomplished with the maximum of positive events and the minimum of negative events. The main idea of this project risk management template is to help project managers and other concerned or interested people to draw up a plan that covers all the aspects of managing project risks to increase the impact of positive events and decrease the impact of negative consequences

project success management

How-to Guides

How to Develop and Share a Project Success Plan (PSP)

Project success management is one of the key responsibilities of a project manager who want to succeed in managing the project. Project success management is an effort to make the project successful through advanced planning, tracking and control of project activities. The project manager should develop a Project Success Plan (PSP) and conduct a meeting to announce the plan and discuss it with the team. In this article we’ll talk about project success management and its primary output – the project success plan. We’ll also focus on the key items of an agenda for the meeting dedicated to sharing the plan between members of the project team.