PM Technix Project Management Tips and Techniques

One of the duties of a project manager is to find out from team members where they are at on their project tasks. This can be done in a lot of different ways including automated or email-based solutions. I have found that these type of solutions generally do not work very well because team members

Uh-oh. This is a show-stopper. We can't complete the project on time because the part that we need won't be available for another 3 months! What will we do?

...Agile has been over-hyped and everyone has an Agile something if they are in IT. Now project management can be Agile; or so it would seem.

We were gathered in the conference room and the project team was scared. The project was six months late and the system barely ran. They were afraid to even sneeze because it might generate another cryptic error message they had no idea how to fix...

Agile project management is very popular for something that doesn't exist. Agile is a software development methodology and not a project management method...

I can see how a tool like this would allow for public, but casual, conversations with co-workers. This would be like a hallway conversation or group discussion between cubicles I suppose, except on the record. I am both thrilled and terrified.

Project managers are often tasked with implementing innovative ideas. It also necessary to be innovative to solve problems encountered in projects. One idea discussed in this book is that innovation is a product of courage more than intelligence.

“A plan never survives contact with the enemy.” If you are using Microsoft Project and things do not go as planned, your project has “issues”. :) You can track these issues as tasks in the project schedule. How do you do this in MS Project?

What are the duties of an IT Project Manager? What qualifications are needed? Can a non-IT PM manage IT projects? There has been a lot of debate on LinkedIn.com about what an Information Technology (IT) Project Manager (PM) is supposed to do...

A work breakdown structure (WBS) is often done incorrectly and even the PMBOK has a bad example of it. This is how to make it useful and do it correctly.