Festive Greeting’s from Unlike Before

Posted by on Dec 17, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers | 0 comments

The festive season is a time of thanks and giving. Once again we thank you for your support in 2013 by giving to Kiva through loans that change lives. From Armenia to Kenya, Paraguay to Peru, Iraq to Ecuador our contributions help those striving to create opportunity and better lives for themselves and their families. We wish you a very Merry Christmas, happy holiday and a fulfilling and prosperous 2014. Website Email UK +44 7817 500 593 IT +39 3664 537 897

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The TeamPulse Roadmap for 2014

Posted by on Dec 12, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

As 2013 is almost over, I thought I’d share details about some of our plans for 2014. With our first release for the year we will provide project managers and development managers with a high level view of product releases and features, so they can manage them more effectively. Then, we will focus our efforts on providing teams with features that will help them do more work with less effort. Below is a brief summary of some of the key features we will be releasing next year: R1 2014 Releases Management Scheduled for the middle of Q1 2014, this new functionality will help you plan and track you projects on a higher level. Manage Releases – gain complete visibility over the progress of your releases. See if you are going to meet the deadline, which are the items that are going to be late and more. In addition, thanks to the multi-project support offered by TeamPulse you will be able to get a unified view of the progress of releases from multiple projects

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Is the iron triangle outdated?

Posted by on Dec 3, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Is the iron triangle outdated?

If you are into project management you are probably familiar with the good old iron triangle which is how project management is traditionally measuring the success of a project. It states that projects must be delivered to the triple constraints of time, cost and quality. The iron triangle reflects the view that our role as project managers is to deliver the project to the customer’s specification (quality) within the agreed time and budgetary constraints, which to some extent is true. But it sometimes happens that we deliver a beautifully crafted product, system or device which meets all of the stated requirements, but which somehow ends up not being used the way it was intended, if at all. For the project team (or supplier) this could be seen as a successful delivery as the product met the customer’s stated requirements, but for the customer it is a failure because it didn’t produce any benefits. It did not add any value. The problem may be that the project manager is not taking a broad enough view of what ‘quality’ constitutes, and is not measuring how the project will add value to the client and to society in the short and long term.

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The iron triangle and the triple constraints are outdated!

Posted by on Dec 3, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers, Uncategorized | Comments Off

The iron triangle and the triple constraints are outdated!

If you are into project management you are probably familiar with the good old iron triangle which is how project management has traditionally measured the success of a project. It states that projects must be delivered to the triple constraints of time, cost and quality The iron triangle reflects the view that our role as project managers is to deliver the project to the customer’s specification (quality) within the agreed time and budgetary constraints, which to some extent is true. But what happens if we deliver a beautifully crafted product, system or device which meets all of the stated requirements , but which somehow ends up not being used the way it was intended, if at all? For the project team (or supplier) this could be seen as a successful delivery as the product met the customer’s stated requirements, but for the customer it is a failure because it didn’t produce any benefits. It did not add any value. In the new world of increased speed, complexity and a more-for-less ethos, we have to take a much boarder view and measure how good we are at adding value and doing the right thing for the client, the project, and for society in the short and long term. Not only is this value-added view the way to successful and sustainable project delivery, it is also the way for project managers to demonstrate their genius and to get to the next level.

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Bring Back Management

Posted by on Nov 26, 2021 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

Bring Back Management

There’s something about leadership that’s been nagging at me for a while. It’s nothing to do with leadership itself because leadership has a clear and important role to play in business, personal and career development. My nagging niggle is the amount written about leadership; its airtime is huge making it appear like the be-all and end-all of skills for anyone in charge. Yet it seems, to me at least, that other skills and knowledge are suffering. Have the fundamentals of management gone so far out of fashion that they’re being lost completely? I’m all for leadership. Leading a group of people or being part of a group or organisation that is well led is not only good for business but is motivating to such a level that you genuinely believe you can achieve anything

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