What is Project Control?

The term control has several meanings. Those new to project management are initially dismayed by the use of the term “control,” because they mistakenly equate it with the concept of authority. In the world of project management, control has very little to do with telling people what to do, dictating their actions or thoughts, or trying to force them to behave in a certain way— all of which are common interpretations of control. In project management, the term “control” is much more analogous to steering a ship. It’s about continually making course adjustments with one main objective in mind—bringing the ship into safe harbor, as promised at the start of the voyage. And the successful project voyage includes identifying a specific destination, carefully charting a course to get there, evaluating your location throughout the voyage, and keeping a watchful eye on what lies ahead.

5 Tips For Faster Scheduling

Some PMs find project scheduling to be good fun. It’s exciting to see all those tasks come together into one structured whole. The project appears before your very eyes and suddenly the screen shows a complete initiative, with everything and everyone aligned to deliver a meaningful business benefit. Plus there is something satisfying about sorting out over-allocation for resources and dealing with task conflicts. When the schedule is done, it’s a work of art.

What isn’t fun, is the time it takes to develop that beautiful project schedule. Here are some tricks to help you produce a schedule faster.

1. Work Together

You can’t put the schedule together by yourself although I have tried! That was a long time ago, before I realized the value in having input from others in the project team. Everyone on the team will have a different take on the tasks involved to get the work done, and as they see it from a slightly different angle, with a focus on their own work, they will identify the tasks that they need to do that you wouldn’t be able to see. Input from subject matter experts is invaluable and will save you loads of time going back and forth between team members for information.

You can hold a project scheduling workshop and brainstorm all the tasks together, which is a fast way to get the whole schedule produced in just a couple of days. You could never do it that quickly if you worked alone.

هل يختلف امتداد حياة المشروع عن دورة حياة المشروع؟

خلال هذه التدوينة سوف نقوم بالقاء الضوء على الخلاف الأول في التعريف بين امتداد حياة المشروع Project Life Span ودورة حياة المشروع Project Life Cycle.

1)     تسليط الضوء

 نرجو قراءة النقاط الواردة أدناه, ومحاولة الاجابة على الأسئلة.

1. في مشروع معيّن (ليس مهمة أو مشروع صغير) كيف كنت تقوم بانجاز عمليات البدء بالمشروع بحسب ما ينص عليه كتاب PMBOK®  والتي تقوم باصداره منظمة PMI؟

هل يشترط بمدير المشروع أن يكون مهندساً؟

مقدمة

تأتي هذه المقالة بعد العديد من الآراء والحالات التي تم مشاهدتها في منطقتنا من خلال تواصلنا وعملنا مع العديد من المنظمات في القطاعين العام والخاص، بحيث كان هناك شبه اجماع على ضرورة أن يكون مدير المشروع من حملة شهادة الهندسة. كما وأننا نجد هذه الحالة على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي حيث تقوم العديد من المنظمات بوضع عروض للعمل وتطلب مدراء مشاريع يحملون شهادة في الهندسة. 

مدى وجود ادارة المشاريع في مناهج دراسة الهندسة

ان مناهج دراسة الهندسة في الجامعات أقله في منطقتنا، لا تتعدى أنها تحتوي على مادة أو مادتين تتعلّق بادارة المشاريع. وان جميع هذه المواد تُعنى بالتخطيط أو بادارة الجدول الزمني للمشروع سواء من خلال استخدام برامج وتطبيقات معينة أو من خلال الشرح النظري لها. فهل من الممكن أن تكون هذه المادتين كافيتين لأي مهندس في ادارة مشروع معيّن؟

How Your Project Management Knowledge Can Increase Your Business Value

Many organizations that are involved in managing  projects fails to capture  the ongoing knowledge  gained from implementing the different project management processes during the project life cycle. They use daily different document templates, workflows, reports and dashboards to manage  their projects that are not formally documented to enable  other projects to make use and benefit from this wasted knowledge.

You can turn this project management knowledge  into an asset that your company can share across all of their projects, current and future.  It is an asset that will reduce your company chances to fail in delivering successful projects.  Your company can document this knowledge in a standard operating procedures manual  to attain  the international certification of ISO

10006:2009 which provides the Guidelines for Quality Management in Projects. A certification

that will differentiate your company from the competition.

FAST TRACK YOUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PROCEDURES IN THREE-STEPS USING REVERSE ENGINEERING

Regardless  what project management procedures manual you want to have, we all understand the importance of fulfilling the needs  of what senior stakeholders want to know about projects being executed. They would usually want dashboards that will summarize projects key performance information  to enable  them to take the right decisions and actions. The level of details  of those dashboards do vary and depend  on the role of the stakeholder and how projects could affect they are responsible for. Dashboards  could be at enterprise, business  unit or portfolio, program, project, contract  and even project management process level. Dashboards  enable  stakeholders to analyze performance trends  and identify exceptions that could need their immediate attention.

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