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Different organizations, based on different cultures, have different limits on their acceptance of project management theory and practice. In health care, the limit seems to be Earned Value Management (EVM). Despite being a neat tool for analyzing project performance, I’ve learned through experience that a normally energetic class will be asleep within 15 minutes of beginning that topic. [...] Shameless plug: we have what I consider to be a pretty good class in project management for health and human services. (More here.) As with other training in project management, there is a lot to absorb in a short time. In three days, we cover manytopics, and conduct individual and group exercises to help people understand [...] At the end of an intense proposal project – or any intense project – everyone on the team is spent. Sleep deprivation, poor eating habits, no fresh air, and lack of exercise conspire to create fatigued team members. Who, while interested in doing a good job, are not thinking clearly. This leads to mistakes. Team members miss [...] You have picked the opportunity. Now what? You have to develop the opportunity – build the relationships and create your brand and position in the market and with the customer, long before the RFP is released. If you are the incumbent – and this is a rebid – that obviously means doing the best work possible. [...] The title here is just a metaphor for documenting your path and making it accessible to others who will follow you. In the course of getting this blog up and running, I encountered various problems with system administrative actions that would not respond. System re-installs, patching, etc. did not help. Various Google searches – and I [...] I’ve just been looking at a couple different schedules in Microsoft Project. One was in the course of doing some evaluation for a nonprofit organization, the other was submitted in the course of a client project. Unfortunately, neither really qualified as a project schedule. Both documents – done in Microsoft Excel – succumbed to the mistake [...] |
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