Meeting the Challenge of Effective Communication for PPM in a Technical World Unless you are a hermit, being a good communicator has to be at the top of your list of skills to manage. The more people you need to communicate with, the more technology that is involved, the trickier it becomes. It is a…
Miscommunication is easy; it happens every day in all walks of life and across all geographic boundaries. It complicates every aspect of life and the implications vary from simple, correctable misunderstandings to global crises. This is true of human communication and systems as well. If you work in the Project Portfolio Management World and lead…
So you’re back to work after the holidays and your inbox is overflowing, you’re not sure where to start or what your co-workers have already taken care of. Worse yet, this is all a repeat of last year’s routine. There simply has to be a more productive way to get work done. How about starting…
Do you really need to know how many hours were spent on a project or is a rough estimate good enough? What difference does it really make anyway? To some organizations, it may not be important to know when a project will be completed but to most this information is critical. Resource forecasting, operational transitions…
When our CIO, Kris Athey, and I co-founded QuantumPM in Kris’s basement back in 2000, we had a clear vision: to help companies extract value from their investment in project-focused efforts. We knew that companies invested great amounts of money in projects but they did not often receive the return on their investments that they…
Cloud computing appears to be the direction for thousands of organizations with greatly increasing growth rates. In fact, the 2015 anticipated spending for end users is expected to be more than $180 billion, according to Gartner, a leading IT analyst group. I wouldn’t be surprised if that number turns out to be a low estimate once…
Simplify the way you work. This has been QuantumPM’s tag line for many years and we absolutely believe in it. Our Project Management consultants want to offer you a better way to start 2015. Here are some ideas on how to get a fresh start on your projects and everything else you do at work? Laurie’s thoughts: Organizing…
In our consulting practice, we see many organizations with tons of project work to do and a great deal of frustration that the work takes longer to get started and completed than initially predicted. The immediate explanations usually sound something like: the resources weren’t available when they were supposed to be or the resources assigned…
Top 3 things you need to do to simplify Project Management – It’s not all about the tools. Laurie’s Thoughts: Are things spinning out of control in your work place? Is there so much going on you don’t know how to focus your team to move a project forward? I’ve found that having the latest…
Why Microsoft Excel isn’t the best project management tool… Laurie’s perspective Is Excel your favorite PM tool? Yep, its mine too. I have a lot of projects and tasks to juggle and I know how to use Excel (plus I’m pretty good at it). So why should I complicate my life and slow down…