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    Why Projects Drift and How to Overcome the Pain

    LinkedIn0Share0Tweet0Pin0Email0 Impact of Project Drift Call it scope creep, drift or shift. Whatever we call it, it’s not good and is often cited as a major cause of project failure. In its 2018 Pulse of the Profession, The Project Management Institute describes this phenomenon as the uncontrolled expansion of product or project scope without adjustments […]

    Project Managers: How to Deal with Dreaded Scope Creep

    LinkedIn0Share0Tweet0Pin0Email0 While time-honored business principles are useful, there are exceptions to the rule. For example, sometimes it’s not a good idea to “under-promise and over-deliver.” And while “praising loudly and blaming quietly” is good advice, there are situations where this doesn’t apply. And then there’s another slice of wisdom that is so deeply rooted in […]

    Project management initiation phase: Best practices

    LinkedIn0Share0Tweet0Pin0Email0 While every phase of a project is important, the first phase of the project management life cycle is generally considered to be the most critical – if something goes wrong early on, the rest of the project will be affected. In fact, many project failures can be traced back to mistakes or omissions that […]

    Essential metrics of project performance

    LinkedIn0Share0Tweet0Pin0Email0 How do you know if your project is succeeding or failing? To those outside the world of project management, this might seem like an unnecessary question, but project managers understand that the line between success and failure is not always easy to see. The larger the project, the more difficult it becomes to get […]