Posts from:Enterprise Project Management, Microsoft Project
Summary Task versus Milestone
BY: Collin Quiring This is a quick primer on the difference between a summary task and a milestone task. In the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), version four, the term “Summary Activity” is defined as: “A group of related... (more...)
Best Practices versus Tool Capabilities
BY: Collin Quiring Project Professional 2010 and Project Server 2010 come with great modifications and an improved user experience. Part of that is to allow all sorts of flexibility in many areas of the tool. While this is a good thing for many... (more...)
Time Estimate or Time Padding? OR: How to Improve Scheduling.
By: Collin Quiring In trying to set up schedules, one of the best ways to find out how much time is needed for a specific task is to ask the person doing the task. And, one of the worst ways to get an accurate amount of time is to ask the person... (more...)
Real Stunt or Marketing Tactic?
By: Tanya Foster So… have you heard about the mega whoosh lately? This video is causing quite a stir on the internet. There is a lot of discussion around whether the video is real or fake. Here’s the background: German engineer Bruno Kammerl... (more...)
Pre-Project Assumptions
By: Collin Quiring When starting a project, everybody involved has a set of assumptions that they bring about the project. Some are about how it should be done, how best to do it or who should do it and so on and so on. But, there are another set... (more...)
Certifications
In looking at the number of Microsoft Certified Professionals worldwide I am amazed at both how many people have proven their expertise by taking the tests and by how few have taken those tests in the Project Server area. A certification, combined with... (more...)
Gain vs Loss – Project Management’s Conundrum
By: Collin Quiring Project Management is usually involved in the creation of “the new” or the modification of “the old”. In the beginning stages of a Project almost everybody involved talks about the great benefits, the wonderful aspects of... (more...)
A PMO’s PMO – Project Management Office’s Project Marketing Office
By: Collin Quiring Gantthead has a series this month about project promotion and in at least one article has a suggested acronym for a department that would do this – a Project Promotion Office (PPO). The specific article I am referring to is found... (more...)
PM Magnitude – 1 for 10 or 10 for 1?
By: Collin Quiring Why is it that so many companies will honor and consider a Project Manager as one of the leaders of their PM organization when they have one large project? One Project Manager is given a ten million dollar project and they are held... (more...)
Project Management and Daily Life – 2 of 2
By: Collin Quiring This is part two of a two part blog on using Project Management in our daily lives. My sister challenged me the other day by saying that all the stuff I do every day doesn’t apply to her (or my) life. While some might agree... (more...)