Sponsor
Fresh from a Microsoft Project course, a manager sits down to develop a project plan. However without proper project management principles, the plan will just be pretty charts and graphs that have no bearing on reality.
Fast, Good, Cheap – Pick Two
Some Project courses discuss the project triangle because it is such as central concept to [...]
Valuable as it may be, a PRINCE2 qualification or other project management qualification is not the only thing you will need if you are going to become a successful project or programme manager.
CONFIDENCE
Project managers need to get a thrill from being out of their comfort zones and will have the confidence to get involved in [...]
Project training covers the mechanics of how to use the software for project management but often doesn’t deal with the details of how to apply these techniques to the real world. Setting up a proper work schedule is one of the core concepts to proper project management. An unrealistic schedule dooms the project from the [...]
Scope creep. It is the bane of every project manager, and yet it is inevitable. Unless you have planned for it, your schedule will be in a shambles, your project late, and your clients unhappy.
What is Scope Creep?
After a plan has been created in Microsoft Project it is inevitable that changes will be made. As [...]
Companies that use Project may require more focused and customized training than companies that use other Office applications. Basic word processing and spreadsheet skills can be adopted to a wide variety of tasks, but Project applications tend to be unique to each organization.
This is even more evident for company projects large enough to require the [...]