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The halo effect and the corporate pyramid
In project management, the wrong perception to rate a team member high or low in all the knowledge areas, based in a brilliant performance in some specific area is called the “halo effect”. For example...
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The Eurotunnel and the scope creep.
The Channel Tunnel is undersea rail tunnel that links Folkestone in UK and Pas de Calais near Calais in France. The tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar trains. In 2012 the Eurotunnel transported more...
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The quality cost
What is quality in a project? If we have a project that requires manufacture 10000 cardboards boxes for a luxury fashion house. How can we measure the quality in this project? Someone will tell us that...
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Dealing with stakeholders
What is a stakeholder? Stakeholders include more than the project manager, the sponsor, the customer and team. The five edition of PMBOK defines a stakeholder as individual group or organization who...
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Avoiding the project failure
How we can define the project failure? In a previous post “Measuring the project success” we saw that the fifth edition of PMBOK talks about the project success should be measured in term that of...
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Conflict Management
What is a conflict? Conflict is some form of friction, disagreement, or discord within the project team or stakeholders. In a Project Environment conflict is inevitable. Some project managers could...
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Quest for a new world: Project charter
Born in the Republic of Genoa, Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. Under the sponsorship of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he completed four expeditions across the...
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Leadership styles
The Situational Leadership Theory is a leadership theory developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. The main principle of this theory is that there is not a single way in the leadership style so the...
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The lack of resources in projects
The deadline is coming and you realize that you won´t have enough resources to complete your project. Every Project Manager experienced or will experience the lack of resources in one point of his...
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Building KPI´s
If you have to achieve goals in your company you have to measure the performance or success in your activities. A KPI (Key Performance Indicator) report is a great way to do it. A KPI is a...
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