Comments for Project Management: Providing Leadership & Improving Organizational PerformanceFollow one Project Management Consultant as he tackles the daily challenges of providing leadership for various projects, establishing portfolio project management frameworks and implementing project management offices and processes. Guided by years of experience providing project mentoring for various project managers across various industries, he is able to detail specific methods and provide helpful solutions that will enhance your project management efforts on-the-job.Comment by PMOshare on What Makes a Project Management Office (PMO) Effective- February 18, 2008 Hello,In our current project, we have hired a Systems Integrator to provision an end-to-end solution (from requirements analysis to system development and implementation) as well as act as the PMO for the project ($250M). The office I belong to provides an oversight function for the project (contract management, finances, etc.) as well as supply some SME's to the project to aid in design of the solution. For various reasons, using the SI as the sole PMO is not working out - we now want to shttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/what-make... Comment by KJPRATAP on Take Control, Control Changes- February 11, 2008 Hi Larry,Your suggestions about the checklist are fine.How about handling the team by the new project manager Chances are that the team might have liked working with the outgoing project manager very well (as team mentor and coach) and again it could take some time for the same team (assuming same team retained or minimal team re-alignment made) to get adjusted with the new PM (or let me call it as the acceptance period) and his new plans, schedules etc. and above all hisher aphttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... Comment by vickybaliga on Take Control, Control Changes- February 8, 2008 Hi Larry that was very useful thanks !!Click here to go to this entry !!http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... Comment by Larry Puleo on Take Control, Control Changes- February 7, 2008 Vivek, I would approach the transition as if I was doing a project audit. I would suggest that you sit in on all project meetings as soon as possible to get a feel for the status of the project. Your checklist should be those documents that you would have required if you were the project manager at the beginning of the project. I would request the following from the outgoing manager and meet with himher to review each document:Project Goals objectivesScope documentProjecthttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... Comment by vickybaliga on Take Control, Control Changes- February 7, 2008 Thanks Larry..that was very informative....may be we need to plug in more proceses and ensure that the approvals are done within mutualy agreed timelines.I am taking over a project from an outgoing project manager...is there a checklist that i can follow and ensure that the transition is smooth....regardsVivek !!Click here to go to this entry !!http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... Comment by Larry Puleo on Take Control, Control Changes- February 6, 2008 Vivek, I am confused. Isn't the customer a stakeholder If the customer (stakeholder) is holding up the approval process than the customer needs to make their approval process more efficient. One approach is to establish a Service Level Agreement (SLA)at the BEGINNING of the project that states all change requests must be approved by the stakeholders within XX hours (48, 72, 96) of receipt of the change request. If nothing is received from the stakeholders within the SLA agreemenhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... Comment by vickybaliga on Take Control, Control Changes- February 5, 2008 ..Hi Larry..yes i agree with you but at times i have experienced resistance from the customers when we insist on Change management process for minor (from customers's perspective) enhancements...because of the time consumed for getting the necessary approvals from the stake holders... !!Click here to go to this entry !!http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/lpuleo/take-cont... |