What I like about The Project Pool The Project Pool is an emerging force in the freelance market, and is staking a claim as the collaborative platform for freelancers and clients and offers a crowdsourced bespoke alternative to the traditional agency model. It can provide the most appropriate resource…
“I have seem projects fail for lack of proper standards so I made the decision at the start of my career that I would adhere to proper standards and working practices, joining the British Computer Society was part of the plan.” Richard Robson BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT champions…
Richard Robson the MD of Project Pilots reviews the book Project Management for Dummies :- We Project Pilots aren’t Project Managers, we can do project management and of course we can manage our own efforts, but we leave it to the second princes, black belts and scrum masters to dedicate…
Do you need to evaluate your project plan? Worried about the quality of your project schedules? Want a health check on your project schedule? Project Pilots can help you assess your project quality? DCMA 14 Point Schedule Quality Assessment The 14 Point Assessment, developed by the (US) Defense Contract Management…
UDFs – The Smiling Assassins Hold the presses, someone’s being critical of User Defined Fields, a cherished and much used feature of Primavera. It can’t be right to call them The Smiling Assassins, can it? Well yes it can, because typically they are not so much “much used” but…
Migrating your Project Plan as easy as 1,2,3 A new year and a new project planning tool It is easy, isn’t it? You’ve been managing your project in one planning tool and you need to migrate it to another. It’s just a matter of finding a mutually compatible format and…
Project Success – Beating the Odds More than half of major projects fail and when those projects fail, it’s rarely technical; the majority of projects fail because of the way they are planned and managed; or rather how they are not planned! Organisations invest in project planning tools and…
Mediation is well established as an alternative means of dispute resolution where an independent and impartial facilitator assists and guides parties towards a mutually acceptable outcome. The great advantage of mediation is that no party can be compelled to agree, but once agreement is reached it is contractually binding and…
Why should it matter who owns the float? “Who owns the float?” is a really important question when a change is introduced into a project. It’s controversial and a quick internet search of that exact question reveals many thousands of attempts to clarify it. It matters when a project…
Project planning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Project planning is part of project management, which relates to the use of schedules such as Gantt charts to plan and subsequently report progress within the project environment. [1] Initially, the project scope is defined and the appropriate methods for completing the project…
