This will be my last (short) blog for the time being and I will discuss an interesting old article I found on MIT Technology Review posted in 2013. It’s about how a bad IT project can bring down an entire corporation. One of the things mentioned in this article is the fact that companies use […]
As someone who has not managed projects before, let alone manage project portfolios, so far it has been unclear to me how projects or portfolios are actually visualized on paper. Today I would like to talk shortly about a useful diagram I found that is used to visualize the status and deadlines of projects. As […]
Last week I spoke to a project manager for a large organization and he told me how his company goes about determining business strategies. It was interesting to hear how many kinds of people have an input in the business strategies of his company and I personally found it to be a great way to […]
Being a software engineer, like myself, often times you are left to carry out activities mainly in the technical aspects of a project and you are rarely exposed to the more managerial parts of the project. Software engineers I’ve met so far also prefer to stay busy with technical side of things. However, I personally […]
Today I would like to blog about some points to follow in order to increase your chances of managing projects with a successful outcome. An Australian based company called Goal Group shares ten practical points that can help project managers and companies around the world. 1. Clear goals and/ or objectivesMake sure the goals you […]
Today I would like to talk about something very abstract that is used, in my opinion, as a thinking tool to look at the behaviors within systems, in a more holistic way. Also used in the context of corporate management. Every viable system contains and is contained in another viable system. The best example of […]
Today I had a very interesting, but very abstract lecture, if I may say so myself, that talked about a theory that I have never heard of. Systems Theory, introduced by Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy and, in its most basic understanding, deals with observing the behaviors of the interconnected parts of a system and how […]
Previously I talked about some of the challenges experienced by organizations who sell physical products. In this day and age, online services are also pretty common products that consumers can pay money for. However, organizations that provide these kinds of online services also have their unique set of challenges when delivering these kinds of products. […]
The kinds of products a company sells truly determines the types of resources a company needs in order to properly deliver and support clients when the product has actually been bought. Selling a car for example, comes with totally different requirements than selling a website service, even though the client can be the exact same […]
So today I got a great opportunity to interview someone who deals a lot with project management. She works for a large organization in Europe and gave me some insights on some of the challenges she faces when choosing projects and making sure they are executed according to plan. I’m going to briefly discuss 3 […]
