Archive for April, 2011
If you walk into the offices of many small businesses, you are likely to see notes sticking either on or in close proximity to the desks of the people employed there. Such “reminder notes” are usually serving as prompts and/or notifications for projects or other operational work on which they are working. In the case of small businesses, the project plan may be held in a file; sometimes, it may …
In part 1 of this series we looked at 8 ways to make your project management training courses more effective. We have a further 8 suggestions. Please do let us have any ideas you may have. 9. Visual aids – I wrote a blog article about PowerPoint and placed a comment on LinkedIn. So far, [...]
Guest post by Pamelia Brown As a project manager, it can be difficult to separate your work responsibilities and your family duties at home. Because of your stressful, demanding job as a project manager, you feel like you have to work late hours to finish up all your planning for upcoming days. After all, being [...]
Project Management: How to Keep Your Work and Family Life Separate is a post from: pmStudent
I love to help new project managers and working project managers further their careers.
I also offer online project management training for you!
One of the dangers, as pointed out by the BABOK is that surveys are not good at collecting actual behavioral information about our users. It seems to me that a large number of executives at Wal-Mart should have done a better job at understanding exactly when and why to use a survey.
If you’re not familiar with Wal-Mart or their recent attempts to de-clutter their stores, its well worth looking into. Back when this was announced a couple years ago, I remember thinking to myself, why would they want to decrease the number of products they carry in each of their stores? There are many things I dislike about Wal-Mart, poor product quality, never enough cashiers, the other shoppers in the store with me, but the one thing I never complained about was how many products they offered.
Sure, it wasn’t always the easiest store to find what you needed, but with the help of a sales associate or two, you almost always could find it. I can think of only a few times I ever shopped a Wal-Mart and was completely unable to find exactly what I was looking for or a close enough substitute that I left satisfied. Given that the number of options available was a good thing for me, I was astounded to find that management had decided to shrink their offerings.
Don’t get me wrong; I was all in favor of wider isles and better organization, but not at the cost of fewer choices. I don’t live at Wal-Mart, I just shop there. I can deal with clutter if I have to because at any time, I can turn around and leave the store.
This is a good lesson for those of us who work in projects to remember, that just because we think we know an answer and especially when we think we receive validation that our answer is correct, it doesn’t mean anyone was really asking that question. Customers said they would like less clutter in the stores, but did anyone ask in the survey if the customer preferred clutter or choices? Obviously, given the outcome, customers choose clutter and options.
Have you ever used a survey in a project? Was the answer you received as faulty as the one Wal-Mart found?
Topic: PMI’s Pulse of the Profession Survey ResultsPresented by: Jason Dolfi, Manager, Market Development Project Management InstituteWhen: Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 9 PM (Eastern Standard US) (GMT-5)PMlessonsLearned.com founder and PM Best Practic…
Guest post by Pamelia Brown As a project manager, it can be difficult to separate your work responsibilities and your family duties at home. Because of your stressful, demanding job as a project manager, you feel like you have to work late hours to finish up all your planning for upcoming days. After all, being [...]
Project Management: How to Keep Your Work and Family Life Separate is a post from: pmStudent
I love to help new project managers and working project managers further their careers.
I also offer online project management training for you!
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KAZ Works cuts ribbon
Foster’s Daily Democrat She is offering Virtual Assistant services, specializing in social media marketing and project management, with the hope of helping small business owners and non-profits grown and thrive. KAZ Works is located at 945 Salmon Falls Road in Rochester and … |
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Sciforma Announces Inaugural User Group Event for US and Canadian Customers
Marketwire (press release) In addition, two Sciforma customers, NETGEAR and Societe De Transport De Montreal (STM), will provide case studies on their use of PSNext and how the platform solved key project management challenges. NETGEAR utilizes PSNext to schedule and monitor … |
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Project Procurement Manager
news.careerstructure.com … on all major agreements, including equipment, materials and services. – Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent. – Ten (10+) years of practical experience in procurement, project management, or contract development. |
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Senior Project Manager (Fit Out)
news.careerstructure.com … £300k – £6m although typically they will be between £500k – £4m. Candidates must come from a Project Manager background working on high spec CAT A & CAT B fit outs. In addition to standard Project Management duties responsibilities will also include: |
