Today I talked to a person that is responsible the technical aspects of the sales process within a high-tech company here in the Netherlands. I had the opportunity to talk to Luigi and he emphasized that its important that a sales person has enough technical awareness and knowledge to understand the full extent of the […]
Today we continue with some more basics on what Project Management entails and I’m going to summarize some points related to Program and Portfolio Management based on PMI’s (Project Management Institute) definitions. These are more higher level entities that are managed and usually consists of other projects and other portfolios.What is Program Management?So PMI defines […]
Today I’ll be writing a brief summary of what project management is. This blog will be a series of blogs that will explain some facts on project management. They’ll be short but concise and hope to inform you quickly about some facts based on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) PMBok (Project Management Body of Knowledge) […]
From an organization’s point of view there are at least 3 things to consider when talking about career growth opportunities within your company. Companies sometimes fail realize that not being able to provide decent career growth opportunities, run the risk of having a hard time managing projects. Here’s why: No Commitment to the OrganizationBy not […]
I promise this will also be about project management. Obviously, in large organizations you have a bunch of international teams consisting of individuals from all around the world, working on the same software solution. Each team being responsible for a particular part of the software. However, you also have the local teams that communicate using […]
Modern problems require modern solutions. With the internet boom in the 90’s IT projects became larger and more complex in nature requiring more software tools to manage the projects themselves. With the advent of Agile and Scrum, one such tool that became massively popular through the IT industry is Jira. Jira, created by an Australian-based […]
Benefits are easily identifiable depending on the sector you operate in. The values that are created as a result of a project being executed can also be clearly stated. However for certain fields, IT for example, benefits sometimes are not clearly specified. The nature of IT related projects usually is a accompanied by undetermined deadlines. […]
A quick reflection on Week 3’s lecture on the Benefits Realization Framework. I’ve come to realize that, applying the BRM Framework, in whole, in the real world would be too cumbersome. PMI presents its esteemed framework as being a complete project management process. However, in the real world it would take a lot of logistics […]
Often times, when we start to learn about things we can use to make our work and lives better, we focus primarily on the technical aspects and put little attention to the more human side of things. In my experience so far, learning a new project management framework is a good example. You start to […]
One of the things I would like to rant about today is, companies that let themselves be ruled by ‘powerful’ clients. And I don’t mean the Hollywood mafia style of powerful clients. I mean clients that are bigger than the organization they buy products from. Big powerful corporations with multi-billion dollar capital and resources spread […]
