Tag: Project Management

  • Question: What is better in a project delivery

    Question: What is better in a project delivery

    Which is better a project that runs on time & budget & meets its objective or a project that runs late & is over budget but overachieves on cost savings that have a Change for life impact?

  • Why do software projects get delayed or fail

    Why do software projects get delayed or fail

    So many projects, so much mismanagement. We can probably all think of projects that have “failed” – perhaps processes got worse rather than better, maybe they were canceled because of cost overruns, or perhaps software application was launched with fundamental errors. Even with project management software, projects often wind up taking longer (much longer) than…

  • What is an effective way to hold meetings

    What is an effective way to hold meetings

    Meetings are required from time to time, not all meetings are effective meetings, people get interrupted, check their smartphone, not following meetings outline, so what do we do to get an effective meeting. I will try to give you tools that you can use at your organization to have effective meetings.

  • The 9 Laws of Project Management (humor)

    The 9 Laws of Project Management (humor)

    If at first, you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. Two wrongs are only the beginning. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up. (Project Management…

  • How to mitigate risk the Dutch way

    I experienced a nice risk mitigation strategy at the Maastricht train station on Saturday, June 30th, 2012, I was on my way to take in the prologue of Tour de France 2012 in Liege, Belgium. I had arrived on platform 3 on a train from Amsterdam, to get to the train going to Liege I need to change…

  • This is how you do a product launch

    For the launch of the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium a button was placed on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town near a sign with the text “Push to add drama” that invited people to use the button. Watch the video…..

  • Leadership

    Well versed in all aspects of enterprise information services leadership and functions, Torbjorn offers critical and function-specific leadership competencies in the following areas.

  • Can everyone become a great manager?

    Can everyone become a great manager?

    Your career has gone straight up and you have all the time heard how good you are. One day you get your first management position, a goal that you been dreaming about for a long time.

  • Resource allocation and project scheduling

    Resource Managers face a regular stream of projects that call upon the organization’s resources. The projects tend to bring varying levels of business benefits to the company and have different levels of costs associated with their execution.

  • Three Factors Determine The ROI Of Project Portfolio Management Tools

    Project portfolio management (PPM) discipline has remained a significant effort in organizations of all sizes. Both inside and outside of IT, leaders are turning to PPM to better capture, manage, prioritize, and align investments and resources with the hopes of increasing the amount of business value they can provide. Organizations are choosing to implement PPM…