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Resource availability is the genesis point of sorts for project planning, the findings of which become the backbone to project planning and scheduling. But its effective tracking and analysis is one of those items, that every list of project management ‘best practices’ prescribes, even as most project managers fail to adhere to the said best…

Most PMO conformists are often averse to the agile culture because it is unfortunately associated with a kind of anarchy that leads to a failed project – something it started out to avoid in the very first place. Agility and its resolve to prioritize people interactions over processes, a working product over documentation, customer centricity…

Every project invites an adrenaline rush associated with using real knowledge, skills and product awareness onto a practical application. And while the intent to bring about a change remains, your way forward is marred by the fact that project risks and challenges go with the territory. Forecasting readies you for these ‘attacks’ by letting you…

Organizations that yearn to gain and sustain high-maturity have turned their attention towards setting up their very own Project Management Office(PMO). A lot of thought goes into building even your garden-variety Project Management Office. After all, as the nerve-center of the organization, a PMO exists to give strategic direction to enterprises so that different departments…

Picture yourself walking down a road, texting a friend you’ve made plans with.  Without warning, you trip over a pothole and your phone slips out of your hands. Worse, the screen you were just looking at a few seconds ago cracks on impact! As you assess the damage and figure out if it’ll cost you…

Earned Value Management is a recurring term in project cost management, one of the 10 knowledge areas listed in the Project Management Body of Knowledge. It monitors scheduling and cost variances by tallying up the actuals against forecasted or planned numbers. The Earned Value template accompanying it not only highlights where and how these alterations…

Given how project management involves communicating and negotiating with different stakeholders 90% of the time, every veritable project manager deserves laurels for his/her ability to tie all loose ends of a project together. Your experience overseeing project planning, execution and delivery would tell you that conveying the right and relevant information to the right parties…