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How to displease the customer or engage the customer
Most service companies adopt a customer-controlled approach to project execution, and typically defer to customer-defined product features, schedule, and costs. Yet, this approach does not always…
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Gaining competitive advantage through reducing project lead times
Projects are deemed successful at completion if they achieve three simultaneous objectives: scope (or content), schedule, and cost. While this is well known, it is hard to achieve in reality. Often,…
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Resource-based earned value management system (EVMS)
Among the biggest challenges to implementing a full-scale earned value management system (EVMS) is reconciling true actual cost in an organization's accounting system to the project. The company's…
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Advances in earned schedule and earned value management
Earned value management (EVM) is a powerful methodology that gives executives, project managers, and other stakeholders the ability to visualize project status throughout the project life cycle and…
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Deployment planning
Delivering a project that successfully meets the client's project requirements is only part of a project's success. The other part involves providing clients with a plan to help them successfully…
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Single telecom provider for multinational companies
By teaming with wholesale global telecommunications companies (WGTC), multinational organizations (MNO) can not only keep up with the widely diverse and ever-changing demands involved in…
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Right on time, right on money--personal experience
One of the most effective ways to learn about the challenges and dynamics involved in managing projects is to study cases of implementing actual projects. This paper examines the author's experience…
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Manager's challenges--managing constraints
Most project practitioners are well versed in the dynamics of managing a project's triple constraints. But as experience project professionals know, the act of implementing a project involves more…
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Moving from the WBS to a critical path schedule
The work breakdown structure (WBS) not only enables project managers to develop a project's activity sequences, but also serves as the basis for developing a project team's critical path, from which…
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Six (yes six!) constraints
Project professionals have long recognized cost, time, and scope as the constraints influencing a project's outcome. Prince2 has expanded this list to include quality, benefits, and risks. This…
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