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What to Do When People Problems Threaten Project Success - Part
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Some of the most challenging problems on a project can often be
"people problems." "People problems" are the social and
cultural barriers that project managers face, such as resistance
to change, departmental "silos," lack of cooperation and
teamwork, inadequate communication, lack of leadership support,
and politics and infighting. This article offers some
practical approaches for dealing with "people" issues on
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What to Do When People Problems Threaten Project Success - Part
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This article is the second in the two part series dealing with
"people problems" on projects. |
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Seven Tactics to Increase Project Success
Whether you are working on a six-week project or a three-year, multi-million dollar implementation, projects of all sizes can benefit from using one or more of these seven tactics. |
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How to Choose the Right Project Management Office Structure for Your Organization's Culture
A Project Management Office is widely recognized as one of the most effective business practices used by successful institutions. A PMO can range from simple project data reporting to a centralized structure that takes the lead on every aspect of project management. |
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Successful Portfolio Management
Portfolio management and project management go hand-in-hand to take the strategic focus of the organization and translate it into effectively implemented solutions. |
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Benefits of Using Online Collaborative Tools for Project Teams
How do project teams collaborate? They meet,
communicate, develop a plan, share ideas, and make
decisions.
Unfortunately, canceled meetings due to calendar
conflicts, missed calls and unreturned emails,
unorganized tasks and de-centralized documents,
and so on can all throw a wrench in this process.
Each of these challenges can be managed using
web-based tools that have been developed
specifically for better collaboration among teams. |
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The Psychology of Executive Dashboards
"Executive dashboards" are popping up everywhere. Johna Till Johnson, writing in Networkworld.com, calls them "technology's next wave." And with good reason. A quick Google search produces dozens of websites with solutions that claim to quickly synthesize and present business data to busy executives. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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A Fine Tool to Engage and Align Campus Stakeholders
How can diverse campus stakeholders be successfully aligned in a common direction or engaged in a project? For example, suppose you want to create new cross-discipline academic programs that may reduce support for some traditional academic programs? Or how about marshalling support while investing millions of dollars and multiple years of effort in new enterprise resource planning (ERP) software? New tools and group processes are needed. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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How to Determine if Your Project is in Trouble
Five Critical Success Factors or Project Success
Whether you’re developing a strategic plan, undergoing accreditation, or implementing an ERP system, institution-wide projects and initiatives require a strong foundation to be successful. |
Planning Your Project Communications
Once a major project is completed and the “lessons learned” sessions begin, it is common to hear some variation of the lament, “We could have done a better job of communicating.” Below we present a four-part series designed to help drastically improve how project communications are planned and implemented.
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How to Improve Communications on Your Project: Plan, Plan, Plan A well-planned communications strategy is key to the success of any project. This article is the first in a four-part series on project communications and offers details on identifing the who, what, when, and how of your project communications plan. |
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Who Cares About Your Project Anyway?
Who cares about your project? Probably more people than you and your project team realize. By identifying your stakeholders and analyzing their needs and impact on your project, you will increase the likelihood of their support for your efforts. |
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How to Choose the Right Communications Vehicles for Your Project
Most of us would not ride a moped on the freeway. Yet using the wrong medium to communicate to your project stakeholders creates the same effect. Your message will either be run over by all the other traffic or simply passed by. |
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Developing Your Project Communication Plan
Communication planning is much like baking your grandmother’s famous Thanksgiving dessert. You may have all of the ingredients. Your family has high expectations. But without grandma’s recipe, you’re lost. |
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