ProjectSteps: 100 Rules for NASA Project Managers

When it comes to NASA every project is critical and stakes are high. These rules have been passed on internet and emails. I recently found a blog article on 100 Rules for NASA Project Managers that I am sharing with you. These are the 100 Rule for Project Managers.ProjectSteps: 100 Rules for NASA Project Managers...

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When to Involve the End User in a Project

The success of a software project how easily the end-users adopts it… This also means that the software solution or product that you are going to deliver should be user-friendly and should improve the end-user productivity. Recently I was working on a Project for a particular group of a client, where they were using a MS-Excel based system to get their things done. It was decentralized system where different team member work on their piece of excel sheet and then all the works were consolidated, verified and reports were generated. We got this Project to convert the existing system to Web based Centralized application. Now as a part of requirement...

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Bad Attitudes – How they affect your Project.

If your project has adversaries, participants who are hostile or reluctant to contribute, it can damage team cohesion and threaten the outcome. You must confront the problem early on, taking steps to win them over to allies, minimize their negative impact, or remove them from the effort entirely. Tom Kendrick, discusses here the effect for Bad Attitudes on your project here. Bad Attitudes...

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Project Management Checklist

Project Management requires you to manage various activities at different stages of Project and take into consideration the processes defined by your organization. As a project manager you would like cover as many aspect that can affect the project. Though during managing a project everything might not go as planned, but if you cover the standardized processes or activities that will definitely help you in any situations. The Project Management Checklist will help you to accomplish the standardized processes and activities. A good checklist will give you a list of activities that needs to be completed and it will also keep you informed about...

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Project Business Case

  photo source: mischiru    Why do you start a Project?There are definitely some goals or objective that needs to be achieved by a Project. But then you may ask why we should go ahead with a project?You know that you have a well defined goal or objective that needs to be achieved, now a goal can be achieved using various means and techniques. You can follow any technique to achieve your goal then why you need a project. Is there a real worth(Business or Personal) to go for a Project. Here comes into picture the need of a Project Business Case document. A business case captures the reasoning for initiating a project or task....

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Project Statement of Work

Ever wondered what happens before starting any project. Picture this that one bright morning (or evening for who are late sleeper) you went to a Fitness center, join there and start pumping the iron…. What will happen after couple of month? Will you continue going to gymnasium? Well that depends on what results you get...right... So then how do you decide if you got the results..I mean how will you verify that? That depends on the goals or objective you have set. So the first thing that is needed to start any project is know the goals that you want to achieve and that means a well defined objective should be mentioned. Now taking example of fitness, your goals or objective may be different, it may be any of the below:You may want to go for Body Building... You may want to stay just fit...

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Project Integration Management

Project Integration Management includes the process and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.According to PMI following processes falls under Project Integration Management:Develop Project Charter Develop Project Management Plan Direct and Manage Project Execution Monitor and Control Project Work Perform Integrated Change Control Close Project or Phase The most important thing in any project is that it should satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and expectation. The Project Integration Management should help to Identify and Define the project expectation set by the stake holders. The purpose of  developing a Project Charter in Project Integration Management is...

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Project - What is Project?

A Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. -PMIA project is effort or work put to create a product(Building, Car, Software etc.) or a Service(Flight Reservation System, etc.) or a result(A document or report as a outcome, etc.) A project is thus: Have a well defined Objective to create a product, service or result. Have a well defined Time Frame (that is a start and end date) to achieve the Objectiv...

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