Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Eric Morkovich

Looking for acternatives to the project

Project Implementation Guide

Project Alternatives

Regardless of the chosen approach and management strategies for implementing a project, there are always some alternative ways to implement the project using the same resource base and meeting the same business need. Such ways are called “project alternatives“. In the Initiation Phase, the identification and management of project alternatives will provide options for completing the project, while addressing the original business problem and delivering the expected business benefits.

Business Case in Project Management: A Complete Guide

PM Framework

Business Case in Project Management: A Complete Guide

Business Case is one of the primary documents that allow summarizing the need for launching a project and analysing possible alternatives. Throughout the lifecycle of the project this document is used to show the project justification and reasonability. In the Initiation Phase, Business Case is used as a way for making decisions on initiating the project, setting primary goals and defining the cost-benefit ratio.

project planning checklist

Templates

Project Planning Checklist

n this Project Planning Checklist, a series of simple yet important project planning steps are shown to help you pave the way to successful project management experience. The checklist depicts how the project planning process can be organized considering such aspects as the initiative, paperwork, implementation, tracking, and finalizing.

Scrum PM method

PM Framework

Scrum – Defining the Agile Methodology and Its Benefits

In simple terms, Scrum is an Agile methodology to project management. In the literature on Agile project management and development, Scrum methodology is often called “Scrum approach” or “Scrum method“. Personally I prefer using the term “Scrum methodology” – meanwhile any of the terms is correct and can be equally used to describe Scrum requirements and the basic concept.

If being more precise, Scrum methodology for project management refers to a team-based collaborative approach to iterative and incremental development of projects (often IT projects) to create a product during small cycles called iterations and to increase functionality of the product during each iteration by adding new properties. The method lets build a project team that includes such roles as Product Owner, Scrum Master and Scrum Team. Each of the roles has different Scrum tasks and operations to perform.

project failure reasons

PM Tips & Ideas

Top 5 Project Failure Reasons, or Why My Project Fails

Project failure is when you do not get what you expect at the end of your project. It is a terrible situation when you cannot say anything about the received results as these results do not meet requirements of the project customer and sponsor. Let’s try to investigate in this article why most projects fail and what are the top reasons for project failure.