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Elected President of the Chapter
I am extremely pleased by the confidence that Board has expressed in me to take PMI-GLC to next level of volunteer and stakeholder engagement, trusting me with opportunity to formulate and lead operational vision, strategy and direction while working on to… Read More ›
Salience Model – Stakeholder Analysis
Who is a stakeholder? Simply anyone with a stake in the project either direct or indirect. PMBOK says that stakeholders for a project are persons or organizations – who are actively involved; whose interests may be positively or negatively affected… Read More ›
15 Ground Rules for Project Team Management
People with diverse professional experiences and background have totally unique perspective on any issue. When a new team is assembled for any project, its vital for the success of that project that all team member are aware of the ground-rules for the project;… Read More ›
Project Management – Useful Links
We learn a lot from the Internet these days and rely on up-to-date information. Personally, I’ve learned a lot from my fellow bloggers and other websites on Project Management to stay ahead of the curve. There are many other on-line resources… Read More ›
Capture Planning Assumptions
Your boss approaches you and tells that workplan is very good but customer wants to know how can we deliver the project sooner than promised? Now you have to come up with a new workplan or make some adjustments based… Read More ›
Elected – Board Member @ PMIGLC
When I checked my inbox this morning, I found an official email from PMIGLC election committee congratulating me that I have been elected as Vice President – Communications for the 2009-2010 term. Some of you might know that I volunteer at Great Lakes Chapter of PMI… Read More ›
Scheduling & Three Types of Tasks : MS Project
If you are new Project Manager or new to using MS Project, when putting workplan together one of the question you may ask is – what type of task should I choose? MS Project has 3 options – Fixed Duration;… Read More ›
PMI Membership Benefits
I volunteer at my PMI (Project Management Institute) local chapter called Great Lakes Chapter (www.pmiglc.org). I enjoy the benefits of PMI membership in form of monthly magazine called PM Network and accompanied paper called PMI Today. Both are informative and I… Read More ›
Issue or Risk?
Budget, Scope and Schedule are three constraints a project manager has to deal with to produce deliverable. Any one of these three is changed, remaining are also affected. Risks and issues in a project are documented and monitored. During the documentation… Read More ›
How to Have Project Kick-off Meeting
Kick-off meeting is the first meeting of the project where you give all the team members good news that project is ‘go ahead’ from the sponsors and also set the tone of your project – is it going to be… Read More ›
10 Steps of Project Success
Whenever IT project failure is talked, people refer Denver Airport project that failed big time and costed a lot. I have also seen project that failed or cancelled or shrunk. Why is it happening when so many intelligent people are working… Read More ›
Leadership and Management 