This post describes the various critical success factors for project execution
Month: February 2014
Not another 1+2=4, 2+3=6, 3+4= What ?? Post! Get real guys..
Let us go ahead, try and analyze the rationale behind such posts.
2 questions really haunt me:-
Q#1: What sadistic pleasure could “they” (read they – as a large and growing, relatively unknown cult of people, silently on a campaign to promote neo-bonehead-ism and reverse the effects of evolution) derive by doing so?
Q#2: What sadistic pleasure could you derive, by responding with an answer, which a 1000 others have already added and you go on to add yours to the list (and in all probability will be the same answer)?
PM Glossary #5 – What’s (in) a Change Request?
Ponder this through: Project Management and Change Control – are they blood relatives or bloody relatives! A Project can also be termed a vehicle for Change (implementing), so why this much ado around Change Management and Change Control, when you are anyways doing it? Yeah – this is not as simple as it sounds, and…
PM Glossary #4 – What is Critical Path and how Critique-al can we get?
I was also toying with the “Why is Critical Path, so critical” title for my post and gave up for the former, as this is predominantly a What-is and not a Why-is post. 🙂 This is probably the most infamous of all terminologies in Project Management. Just because all the activities on this path add…
PM Glossary #3 – Scope, Creep and You
There are universal standards of measurement for Time (your watch and calendar) and Cost (wallet and/ or bank account), leaving out any chance for ambiguity or lack of consensus among stakeholders, but for Scope – this will always remain a grey area (however good the documentation, process, team and relations be!).
Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and You – Demystified
What does CMM mean to the common man. An attempt at simplifying the same.
Random Musings 