Planning the budget is one of the big issues when you write the project plan (or a project proposal for a European project). The first step is to identify the estimated costs. A properly working method is to take each work package, identify the costs in the different fields, and… Read More »Budget and Budget Problems
Communication in project management involves the exchange of information between all project participants. Communication is a key function in project work. Effective and goal-oriented communication are the basic requirements for the successful completion of a project. Communication as a cornerstone in successful projects. In project management, three main areas of… Read More »Communication in Projects
Meetings are tools to discuss open issues, make decisions, get a status report, or to implement other important issues with the team in the project. Watch this presentation and answer the self-assessment questions at the end. Transcript of the videos Further reading Project meetings (Planview) Well-done compilation with a comprehensive… Read More »About Meetings
Virtual Multinational teams present added challenges … not taught in your typical college class or PM boot camp! Especially in European Projects/Partnerships, you will work with multinational teams. The time zone difference between Latvia or Turkey and the Canarian Islands makes 2 hours (to the Azores 3 hours). The cultural… Read More »Virtual Multinational Teams
The last milestone was passed, the product is ready, the customers are satisfied – ok, that’s the end of the project. The end of the project does not mean the end of the related work in the project. If you want to finish seriously, there are some other steps waiting… Read More »Project Closing
Meetings are important – more important might be the outcome of meetings. These meeting’s results are summarized and described in minutes. Here are some of the experiences we’ve had over the past few years. Useful hints to make it better Reading the issues mentioned above, you will want to get… Read More »Minutes
Last year, I was part of a project team with a somewhat chaotic and inexperienced project manager. The project plan was poor and consisted of an Excel sheet with the designation of the work packages, a list of the most important contents of the work packages, an indication of the… Read More »The Project Plan
Do you know this situation: In the project, a partner asks you to upload a document with the announcement of a joint event on the website? You upload the document. One day later, the partner sends a new document: In yesterday’s document a few small things were corrected – now… Read More »Version Control of Documents
Xoyondo, an interesting European tool can help you in the coordination of meetings and offers a simple but efficient poll feature.
There are hard facts to measure the success of a project. The first is time and if you were able to manage your project in the foreseen timeframe it’s a success – that’s clear. The second factor is budget. Keeping the budget is a success factor in any case. The… Read More »Evaluation of the success of a project