Category: PM Tips & Ideas
Managing records on a project is an essential activity that makes it possible to handle and use project documentation in the way that ensure smooth capturing of documents and papers by seniors, team members, and other stakeholders. Being a part of overall project document management, records management allows a project manager to direct and control document flows throughout the project lifecycle while ensuring that every single document or record serves the operational needs and helps teams capture and retrieve necessary information. It creates a framework for running project activities and procedures and paves the way for analysis, lessons learned, historical reviews, etc.
The following checklist gives a common understanding of the TQM methodology, its approach and implementation steps. You can use it as additional guidelines for planning your project based on the methodology. We recommend using other TQM resources to learn the implementation process in detail.
Last time when I analyzed one of my previous projects I tried to follow several lessons of effective crisis management that were given to me by my good friend. There were nine simple lessons or steps that helped me avoid making mistakes in my management practice. Then I thought those lessons would help you as well, so I decided to write this article and describe 9 lessons of effective crisis management for project managers.
The project planning process is one of the high-level management processes that make the project lifecycle. It is a complex of tasks for setting up a project plan and also defining subsidiary plans. The project planning process is closely linked to the planning phase which is the second phase within the project lifecycle, according to the PMBOK methodology. It comes after the Initiating Process Group (by PMBOK) and the Direct Project (by PRINCE2). For some project managers, planning a project is a real challenge and sometimes they feel confused when trying to define a problem, develop a strategy, build a WBS, establish communications, build teams and so on
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...
