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Effective Communications = Productive Project Teams

Effective communications are the cornerstone to successful projects and productive teams. The Agile Manifestoextolls the virtues of collaboration, individual interactions, and face-to-face communications. Projects represent our ability to coordinate the work of many people to accomplish a goal. It i

1 Oct 2017 · Alan Zucker · 6 min read

Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success

Projects with involved stakeholders are far more likely to be successful. But many projects suffer from low engagement from executives, users, and key stakeholders.The PMI’s Pulse of the Professionsurvey found that projects with high executive support were 40% more likely to be successful than those

31 Aug 2017 · Alan Zucker · 6 min read

GAO is Wrong

GAO IS WRONG:Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules suggests keeping deleted activities and logic while setting duration to 0. See page 140 of 240.http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/6744

27 Aug 2017 · Rafael Davila · 1 min read

Why so many poor schedules?

Why so many poor schedules?Schedule logic is not the issue, what makes our schedule models so poor is how we deal with resources. Without resources nothing is done. Schedules that do not take into account all resource constraints are incomplete and most probably wrong.We favor simplicity over substa

11 Aug 2017 · Rafael Davila · 2 min read

The Cream of Project Controls

Recently there was a tremendous opportunity to learn from one of today’s premier project-control advocates and thought leaders on a topic most project professionals may very well be occupied with on a daily basis.

7 Aug 2017 · Michael Bensussen · 3 min read