EORGANIZING FOR BUSY PROJECT MANAGERS

Here’s 1. Divide the group into teams of three or four.
how . . . 2. Give each team an envelope containing playing card triangles.
3. The teams have 3 minutes to examine and sort their pieces and plan their strategy for bartering. 4. Open the bartering. Everyone participates by bar-

In Project Management A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling,” Harold Kerzner provides some good insights into the problem of quality management and some suggestions for success in this area. His observations span a wide range of potential actions and t[r]

228 Sales & Marketing
a sales department is to own and manage the project team’s relationship with the customer. Sales people usually handle all or at least multiple products.
Marketing is a staff function that uses customer input re: needs and requirements to develop and mana[r]

This technique can be used to identify trends early. In fact, problems will show up even if these are masked by the usual calculations of actual cost versus budget. Because it takes all related factors into account, even on a complex project, this technique can unearth problems that ar[r]

6. to maintain and improve our technical competence and to undertake technological tasks for others only if qualified by training or experience, or after full disclosure of pertinent limitations;
7. to seek, accept, and offer honest criticism of technical work, to acknowledge and correct[r]

team. It is mainly the core team that the PM must pull together, but the project will be even more effective if the extended team members also identify as themselves as part of the project. In fact, there is often more than one layer of extended team. In the case of the developm[r]

One common method of communication is the holding of meetings. As important as meetings are in enabling communication and decisions, there is still a lack of understanding of how to use them most effectively. Particularly in a project environment, where time is generally in very short supp[r]

Cost plus fixed fee would work well in this case, because the seller is covered at least in terms of his costs, and the buyer at least limits his risk by fixing the overhead fee. However, if the buyer does not trust the sellers to agree to a fair fee for the overhead, he may not want to[r]

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The Purchasing Department is often not intimately involved with projects, which is surprising considering the potential impact of purchasing activities. The PM should ensure that purchasing is brought into the project early. He should also ensure that he can work well with this departm[r]

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ) and pass the Project
Management Professional (PMP ) examination.
If the professional organization for project managers, the Project Man­ agement Institute (PMI ), has been instrumental in promoti[r]

Chapter 3 Project management. After studying this chapter you will be able to Define the terms project and project management, and differentiate between project and process management, describe causes of failed information systems and technology projects, describe basic competencies required of pro[r]

This chapter will start us off with the fundamentals of project management. We want to make sure that your understanding of project management is in line with ours, because after all, there is more than one way to manage a project. If your experience is like ours, you probab[r]

With the many mergers and alliances in the telecommunications industry today, many projects have teams that are not co-located. These teams might not be international, and might even be in the same city, but different office locations. However the different locations present communications i[r]

Project phases
As mentioned, each project is broken into phases. What is recommended from a PM perspective is that the overall project follow a standard lifecycle, with four phases -concept or initiation, planning and definition, implementation and closure. During the i[r]

SENIOR MANAGEMENT
The responsibility of senior management within a company is to guard, further and strengthen the business of that company. Each senior manager oversees some area of the overall business, generally managing a subset of the corporate staff. This concept is true no matter what[r]

As mentioned, technical background is needed on most telecom projects. The environment is by nature a technical one. However, in addition to the advantages of engineers’ having technical background, there are also some dangers in this. First, the engineer might be assigned a dual role, of bo[r]

To ensure that each activity is included only once, we have to sift through the WBS to ensure that nothing appears twice. It often happens that a project has activities that appear to be the same, when in fact they are different. If we have a program and also a meeting, and we want to wr[r]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
QUICK TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITIES FOR BUSY MANAGERS ix
W hile working with one of my favorite clients in Maine, I ran into two busy managers within minutes of each other. They had sim- ilar requests of me. “Brian, can you give me a quick team-bui[r]

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