Comments on: Five Essential Project Management Tips http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips Tue, 22 May 2012 19:39:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: orval pantallon http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips/comment-page-1#comment-21673 orval pantallon Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:35:47 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips#comment-21673 I agree with the statements above all TEAMWORK IS THE KEY. I agree with the statements above all TEAMWORK IS THE KEY.

]]> By: Pradeep Bhanot http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips/comment-page-1#comment-1066 Pradeep Bhanot Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:04:33 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips#comment-1066 Joanne, I agree with the notion of focusing on the project team more than the mechanics of the project. Using an integrated Project and Portfolio Management software solution helps to free up the time to do this. The best project managers I have worked with manage by exception. They are prepared for problems with pre-planned contingencies that go beyond simply padding out the time it takes to complete tasks on the project schedule. It is the team leaders that have the insight and solutions when needed, so maintaining strong relationships is really important. Having a prioritised list of project deliverables at hand helps you slim down the scope when your project gets resource constrained. Having held both Product Management and Product Marketing roles in large project teams, I totally agree that maintaining a focus on what features that provide the most value for the projects customers are the ones to focus on. Engineers always want to sneak “cool stuff” into a project and unless that cool feature provides competitive differentiation, its biggest impact on the project is often the risk that comes from using unproven approaches. Joanne,
I agree with the notion of focusing on the project team more than the mechanics of the project. Using an integrated Project and Portfolio Management software solution helps to free up the time to do this. The best project managers I have worked with manage by exception. They are prepared for problems with pre-planned contingencies that go beyond simply padding out the time it takes to complete tasks on the project schedule. It is the team leaders that have the insight and solutions when needed, so maintaining strong relationships is really important.

Having a prioritised list of project deliverables at hand helps you slim down the scope when your project gets resource constrained. Having held both Product Management and Product Marketing roles in large project teams, I totally agree that maintaining a focus on what features that provide the most value for the projects customers are the ones to focus on. Engineers always want to sneak “cool stuff” into a project and unless that cool feature provides competitive differentiation, its biggest impact on the project is often the risk that comes from using unproven approaches.

]]> By: Chris Ritke http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips/comment-page-1#comment-1067 Chris Ritke Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:40:36 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/five-essential-project-management-tips#comment-1067 Hi Joanne - I just read your post and agree that it's important to "Embrace collaboration tools aggressively" - and that Twitter-like tools can help to keep tabs on current activities of all team members. You might be interested in looking at ProjectThingy - an embeddable project and file collaboration widget - it not only addresses many of the things you mention but also has a new twist: just copy and paste some html into a web page to put it on a web site. It's at projectthingy.com. I'd love to hear what you think! Hi Joanne - I just read your post and agree that it’s important to “Embrace collaboration tools aggressively” - and that Twitter-like tools can help to keep tabs on current activities of all team members. You might be interested in looking at ProjectThingy - an embeddable project and file collaboration widget - it not only addresses many of the things you mention but also has a new twist: just copy and paste some html into a web page to put it on a web site. It’s at projectthingy.com. I’d love to hear what you think!

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