Video: Responding to Project Risks
Responding to Project Risks - Project managers respond to risks using one or more of the following strategies: avoidance, mitigation, deflection or as a last resort acceptance with a contingency plan.
View ArticleVideo: Why Can't We Ever Do Big Projects Right;? Too many organizations fail...
Dick Billows, PMP, examines the barriers in organizations that prevent these big projects from finishing on time and delivering the significant business value the executives intended. Then Dick discuss...
View ArticleVideo: Project Personalities; Techniques for Being More Effective With People
Dick Billows, PMP, GCA, narrates a video in which we first see a project manager fail to resolve the problems resulting from a team member being pulled off their project work. We see the project...
View ArticleCoping with Changes to Scope, Budget and Duration: Article & Video
Botch a few too many change requests and your career gets dragged down the drain by overruns and unhappy executives. We lay out the best practice process for effective change control, starting during...
View ArticleVideo: Presenting a Project Plan for Approval
Best practices planning can overcome a bad executive and weak organizational processes. Follow these templates &, techniques from the first meeting and an approved plan & schedule.
View ArticleProject Status Reports
How we report to the project sponsor is a key to maintaining credibility and securing support for corrective action when we have variances
View ArticleUsing Brainstorming to Identify Project Risk
Much of our success in risk management comes from the accuracy of the risk identification. So avoid endless fighting fires and workarounds by spending some time in brainstorming sessions with the...
View ArticleSimple Risk Management
The hardest part of the whole risk management process is getting the sponsor or the customer to invest a little effort in avoiding risks. A bit of simple risk analysis can give you some ammunition to...
View ArticleVideo: 537 Ways to Screw-up a Project
Our project managers have fun in a comedy video about PMs and team members preparing for a big project status meeting. See micro-managing PMs frantically hiding problems, team members pointing fingers...
View ArticleVideo: Planning a Project with a Difficult Executive
Video Project Manager in Action: Watch a project manager start planning, get eaten alive by a tough executive and start work with no defined scope. Then see the PM try it again, using best planning...
View ArticleControlling Project Scope: Keeping Stake-holders Happy & Finishing...
Trying to fight every change to a project doesn't work. Even if the customer doesn't ram the change down your throat, they are still unhappy with the project and with you. Watch a video of a project...
View ArticleFixing a Dysfunctional Project Team
Dysfunctional project teams can cause major overruns and project duration and budget. There are techniques that project managers can you to salvage dysfunctional project team and turned into a high...
View ArticleEstimating with Your Project Team: 3-Point Estimates
When a project team is committed to their work and time estimates, it significantly increases the odds of finishing on time. The 3-point technique for estimating helps you get that commitment with a...
View ArticleArticle & Video: Visual Status Reports=Fast Understanding
Communicating with stakeholders and sponsors effectively requires that project managers use easily understood visuals that communicate project status. The tracking Gantt chart lets everyone see where...
View ArticleVideo: How Many Tasks in the Work Breakdown Structure?
Project managers often ask this question and are often surprised at how you figure it out on each project. Read the article and watch the video on creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) that lets...
View ArticleCommunicating With Your Project Team Effectively
Watch the video to learn about adapting your communications style to "fit" each team member's personality and get better commitment and clear communication.
View ArticleVideo: What did the PM do Wrong in This Planning Meting?
Watch the video of a PM and 5 team members planning a project and spot the PM's mistakes. See the PM deal with each team member's assignment and cope with the sponsor "sticking his head in." Then...
View ArticleGetting Good Status Data from Your Project Team
The video shot, on the beach in South Carolina, covers what data you need from your team members and how to get it. I focus on what to ask for and how to get it, as well as how to manage the process so...
View ArticleProject Launch Meeting
Watch a client and creative director launch a project with the team and see if you can spot their mistakes. Then listen to the private comments of the team members about the meeting. Finally, hear my...
View ArticleFighting off the Sponsor from Hell & Building Your Project Team's Commitment...
In this video, you will see a project manager working with her team to develop estimates using the best practices in project management. Specifically, she is using three point estimates which give her...
View ArticleThe Right & Wrong Way to Resolve Project Team Conflict
Watch a project manager walk into a bitter team conflict that has brought work to a stop. The PM uses the wrong techniques for conflict resolution and makes things worse. Hear Dick Billows, PMP's...
View ArticleReal World Project Management: Getting Good Status Data
Hike the shore of a barrier island off the South Carolina coast as Dick discusses how to gather good status data from your team members. He'll also describe techniques to avoid having the team hide...
View ArticleGetting a Good Start with a Sponsor
That first session with a new sponsor can determine the project's success. Getting off to a good start requires that you talk persuasively about how the executive and project manager should work...
View ArticleSucceeding on Strategic Initiative Projects
Strategic projects, those that improve an organization's strategic position and long term prospects present challenges that are unique in project management. The challenges includes managing people...
View ArticleLeading Project Teams
Having a highly motivated, problem-solving project team is a key component for consistent project success. We need to learn the right techniques to use as we manage our project team through the...
View ArticleVideo: Project presentations- Using Body Language
Being an effective presenter is critical to building project support and influencing people; both keys to project success. In our all our classes you make live presentations privately with your...
View ArticleWork Breakdown Structure the Right Way
A good WBS is not a detailed "To do" list. But too many PMs and executives think all that micro-detail gives them tight control. It actually gives them less control and a schedule that is too detailed...
View ArticleVideo Project Management Careers
Watch the video on rising through the stages of a project management career establishing a track record of on-time, on budget project completions where the deliverables meet expectations. Beyond...
View ArticleVideo: Tailoring Your Project Presentations to Different Personality Types
Dick Billows, PMP, GCA, narrates a video in which we first see a project manager try to handle a problem with a team member. At first, the project manager makes things worse by using bad interpersonal...
View ArticleHandling Requests to Finish Earlier
Project managers handle requests to finish earlier all the time. But all too often the PM handles t hem incorrectly and winds us with unhappy customers or a conflict that gets escalated to upper...
View ArticleVideo: Project Estimating for Projects: Analogous & Parametric Tehniques
Coming up with good estimates is a challenge for all project managers. We give you the 2different estimating techniques the video shows you how to present the estimates to the sponsor and defend the...
View ArticleTechniques for Leading your Team:
Watch this video of a PM dealing with a situation where a team member has been pulled off the project and assigned elsewhere. In the first video, we see the PM use a technique that does not fit the...
View ArticleProject Change Control
Badly handled project change control irritates stakeholders and causes overruns on budget and duration as well. Fighting all changes doesn’t work nor does accepting all of them> Here are the...
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