97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 135 • Arrive at meetings early if you need to plug in a laptop, set up projection equipmen ...

(^136) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know The Best Estimators: Those Who Do the Work The Best Estimators: Those Who Do ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 137 Once they are ready to give their initial estimate, they each write their indi- vidual fi ...

(^138) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Communicating Is Key Communicating Is Key Gennady Mironov, CPM Toronto, Ontar ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 139 Finally, I chose to meet personally with our contractor, explained the details of the iss ...

(^140) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know A Project Is the Pursuit of a Solution Cynthia A. Berg, PhD (ABD), PMP Glenda ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 141 further into the activities and milestones necessary to ensure that it is done efficientl ...

(^142) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know It’s the People, Stupid It’s the People, Stupid Adrian Wible New York, New Yo ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 143 Be open, honest, and direct with team members. Provide feedback on a regular basis, not j ...

(^144) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Documents Are a Means, Not an End Patrick Kua London, UK EISEnhoWER onCE SAID ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 145 I have seen project managers try to force everyone participating in the project to keep t ...

(^146) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Can Earned Value and Velocity Coexist on Reports? Barbee Davis, MA, PHR, PMP ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 147 the original estimates might be excessive, and incoming materials or other project partic ...

(^148) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Scope Change Happens; Get Used to It Pavel Simsa, PMP Bellevue, Washington, U ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 149 Fortunately, the “nice to have” items are also the easiest to eliminate. If you are build ...

(^150) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Buying Ready-Made Software Ernani Marques da Silva, MBA, PMP, PgMP Mairipora, ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 151 Prepare a vendor evaluation report, test cases, and test plan. Make sure the test case i ...

(^152) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Project Sponsors—Good, Bad, and Ugly Jorge Gelabert, PMP Berlin, Connecticut, ...

Collective Wisdom from the Experts 153 The “bad” sponsor can hinder a project in different ways. He or she may become involved i ...

(^154) 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know Should You Under-Promise, or Over-Deliver? Joe Zenevitch New York, New York, ...