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Poll Question: Measuring Project Success

Often I run into organizations where project teams are not measuring success consistently. For example, one project team might believe a project is successful if they stayed within the budget; however, the customer was unhappy with the project because their expectations weren’t met. Another project team might feel the project was successful because they kept […]

Establishing Project Management Best Practices

In the last few months, in meetings with a variety of clients, I have seen an increased desire to establish best practices around project management. However, with each client – “best practices around project management” seems to mean something different. For some clients, discussion has focused around putting policies and procedures in place for accomplishing […]

Using ROI to Measure the Results of Business Process Improvement Initiatives

Given today’s economy and the need to do more with reduced resources, budgets, etc., organizations are looking to improve efficiencies across departments and business units. This means reviewing the current processes and improving them, or putting processes in place where nothing formal currently exists. Process improvement initiatives are becoming a focal point for organizations – […]

Using Return on Investment to Evaluate Project Management Training

Executives today are demanding to see the monetary value that project management training programs bring to the organization. This means they need to see a dollar value placed on the benefits of the training, not just that participants believe the training to be valuable to them or they enjoyed the training overall. […]