OUR SOLUTIONS – YOUR PEOPLE – PROJECT SUCCESS PM360 Consulting flagship course teaches a project management method known as “Structured Project Management” or the “Ten Steps to Project Success”. This workshop teaches what you need to know to run any project successfully.The powerful and practical hands-on methodology...
If any business activity ever cried out for project management skills, it is an initiative spawned by a merger or acquisition. Here are 10 steps successfully applying project management fundamentals to business integration projects. Last year, some 40,000 companies changed ownership, for a total deal value...
One of the books that has significantly influenced my thinking as an entrepreneur is The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It’s a business book written in the form of a novel, and it follows a fictional plant manager named Alex Rogo as he methodically fixes processes in a...
Project management is a growing field and plays an important role in ensuring projects are carefully planned, directed and aligned with a company’s strategic goals. Program management effectively reduces risks, cuts costs and improves success rates. Project managers are specially trained to use its proven techniques...
‘Why is project management important?’ is an interesting question that clients sometimes pose. They’ll ask: “Can’t we just brief the team doing the work and manage them ourselves? It’ll be loads cheaper.” They wonder if they really need project management because on paper it looks like an...
Although there have been huge advances in project management in the last 20 years, the issue of Project Failure is still the elephant in the room. Success rates are not improving and the metrics surrounding project failure have been disturbing for decades — at least...
Projects Won’t Always Succeed – Here Are 6 Reasons Why In 1990, I worked for the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta as a sales equipment engineer. During this time, we were running a campaign known as “Magic Summer ’90.” Part of this campaign involved Coca-Cola cans that...
When it comes to today’s workplace, agility is a nice attribute to have. Being agile means you move quickly, change course easily, and you’re always ready to spring into action. But what about the term agile, as it pertains to project management? What does “Agile” mean in...
A good time was had by all at Scrum Day India 2020. My talk on “Why 47% of Agile Transformations Fail!” was well received. After many requests for the slides I am posting them here. I recently read that 47% of Agile Transformations fail and since 77%...
What does all modern knowledge workers have in common? Projects. The amount of existing research about projects and project management is huge in the academic world. However, even though these studies are useful guidelines, contributing to expanding the knowledge of managers and project managers, sometimes research...