Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

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.

agile PM

PM Framework

Agile PM Adoption – The Challenges and the Steps

Traditional project delivery has similar principles and practices with the agile project management methodology (Agile PM methodology). Both approaches aim to deliver measurable results in timely manner. Agile PM adoption – or a transition from the traditional project delivery approach to the agile project methodology – becomes a quite predictable and manageable activity that can be accurately planned in a sequence of simple steps taken before any actual development process takes place.

Prince2 Process Model

PM Framework

Prince2 Process Map – A Quick Overview

Among a variety of project management (PM) methodologies, Prince2 is one of the most popular methodologies for organizing, managing and controlling projects. There are eight high-level Prince2 processes that characterize the PM methodology. The processes are the framework for planning Prince2 projects and dividing the project management process into four Prince2 phases. In this article we will talk about the Prince2 process model for planning and managing successful Prince2 projects.