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The Benefits of Project Documentation

Project documentation??  

“Hmmm…I would prefer to use that time meaningfully by doing some other project activities.” 

Are you buried in paperwork?

“Let’s do it after completing all project activities, not right now.” 

“I am focused on delivering the project.  This is a low priority.” 

“I can complete one more project if I don’t do documentation.” 

Sounds familiar?  You may have [...]

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Greenality and Projects

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 By David Shirley

We all know that business is beginning to appreciate the value of green.  That’s of course in harmony with an increasing “green wave” of awareness amongst the general population.  In fact, there has been much discussion surrounding the topic of green business but very little about green projects, green project management, and green [...]

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Capturing Those Lessons Learned

 

A lesson learned

Do you capture your lessons learned?  If you do, how effectively do you capture them? 

There are many reasons why lessons learned are not captured, or, if they are captured, not used, including:

Lack of time
Lack of management support
Lack of resources
Lack of clear guidelines around collecting lessons learned
Lack of processes to capture lessons learned
Lack [...]

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Green Project Management – Its Time Has Come!

 

Today we are interviewing Rich Maltzman, PMP® and David Shirley, PMP® of EarthPM about green project management.

Please visit their bios on the Authors page to learn more about their background.

The Interview

I’d like to ask you both a few questions so we can better understand green project management in general and your vision for EarthPM.

1. Explain [...]

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Learning about the Project Management Function in an Organization: Data Gathering and Presentation to the Client (Part 2 of 2)

 

In Part I we looked at the beginning of a high level approach to taking the initial steps to learn about an organization’s project management function.  The client, who is a service company, had plans to grow their project management function by an additional 100 project management employees worldwide within 2 – 3 years and [...]