Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Mary Levinson

Challenges of Project Contingency Planning and Management

PM Tips & Ideas

Challenges of Project Contingency Planning and Management

In simple words, project contingency planning and management is a series of activities to create a feasible plan “B” and follow it in case of necessity. In the project management discipline, such a plan is called a project contingency plan. The planning and management of unexpected and uncertain events are always critical to the success of a project because risks cause the project failure and reduce the probability of project completion. Project contingency planning and risk management are the key activities that make your project initiative successful and achievable in terms of time, quality and money.

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PM Framework

Risk Analysis in Project Management

Perhaps, everything within a project involves a risk of some kind: changes in working environment, an increase of project costs, procurement issues, postponed delivery dates, etc. Risk analysis within the project initiation phase allows assessing all possible risks and making a decision on what actions can be taken to minimize disruptions to the statements of the initiation phase.Project risk analysis is the efficient way to ensure that strategies used to control project risks are cost-effective

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How-to Guides

How to Fail a Project, or What You Shouldn’t Do When Managing Your Project

Most people involved in planning and managing projects often do not realize why they fail with their projects because they have no idea of project management failures and common reasons for project failure. Do you want to know why you failed with your last project? In this quick review I will tell you about the most frequent project management failures and also teach you how to fail with a project. Why do you need to teach you this? The answer is that I believe a person will get more chances to succeed in project management & planning if he or she is aware of what SHOULD NOT be done within their projects. I hope that through teaching you to fail projects and showing you project management failure examples you will better understand how to achieve project management success and not to do all those wrong things that many project managers and planners do.

Team Conflict in Project Management: Definition, Classification, Resolution Process

Teamwork & Leadership

Team Conflict in Project Management: Definition, Classification, Resolution Process

Having the right understanding the defintion of team conflict and being able to classify all conflicts between employees into types will allow team leaders and managers to look into the actual reasons of group conflicts and find solutions that help resolve interpersonal problems. Although conflicts are inevitable, decision makers should strive to reduce the likelihood of conflict occurrence. They must mitigate the negative impact of group conflicts and try to increase the positive impact of those conflicts. This article describes the definition of team conflict and also lists types of team conflict.

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Teamwork & Leadership

PM Mentoring – The Importance of Project Staff Training

Perhaps you can hardly find organizations that do not try to follow the practice of successful project management mentoring and project staff training, because the modern competitive environment dictates to business organizations to have educated and skilled employees who can do daily tasks and perform projects with less time and money consumed. Through practising project management mentoring and training, any organization can direct and coordinate its human and material resources throughout the project life-cycle to accomplish established goals within the scope, expected quality, time and budget, while meeting expectations of the stakeholders. Excellence in planning and implementing projects will be achieved if the organization owns training personnel that has earned online project management certifications and accomplished project management certificate programs. In this article I would like to describe a definition of project management mentoring and list its benefits so that you would see the importance of project staff mentoring.