What is project success?
Project success is too often defined as "on time and on budget". In a larger sense, true project success is an intangible, realized through consensus, collaboration and communication. Click on the links to read our most popular articles, and learn how to increase your odds for "successful" projects in every sense of the word.
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Top Ten Tips for
Project Success
| #1 - Project Management Best Practices Follow standardized practices to minimize redundancies and improve consistency. | #2 - Project Requirements Make sure your projects are based on solid, vetted requirements, with documented stakeholder buy-in. |
| #3 - Project Success Criteria Define the meaning of "success" for every project before work begins, and get buy-in from all key stakeholders. | #4 - Project Change Control Once any project is underway, try to keep all changes to a minimum unless they are necessary and beneficial. |
| #5 - Project Team Organization Organize your project team according to identified project needs, known resource constraints and internal realities. | #6 - Checkpoint Management Don't get caught by surprise by a lack of progress - use checkpoints for management control. |
| #7 - Customer Relationship Management Keep your customers involved and engaged in all the key project planning and strategy decisions and activities. | #8 - Deliverables Testing Test project deliverables at every important phase of the planning, development and delivery process. |
| #9 - Project Transition Openly transfer ownership and responsibility for project deliverables to the customer. | #10 - Post Project Reviews Evaluate every project for valuable lessons learned, to review results and improve future performance. |
The Project Status Snapshot
You don't need (or even want) lengthy, verbose
documents to report on project status. You need the right
information presented in a clean, concise and consistent format.
The Project Status Snapshot is designed to do just that! With one cost
effective download, you get the secrets, solutions, and tools you need to
produce and present timely status reports for all your projects,
designed to inform and impress.
The
Project Selection Roadmap
The Project Selection Roadmap provides a "fast track" process for
project selection based on (16) pre-defined screening
criteria and (10) pre-defined viability thresholds,
with a related scoring and weighting system to account for
the cost of maintaining the status quo. In this one
practical, cost effective tool, you get the forms, steps and
information you need to review project proposals and make
informed decisions - whether you choose to approve a project,
reject a project or some action in between.
The Fast Track Business Case
Lengthy documents won't
get your projects approved.... you need clean, polished and professional
presentation tools to provide the information decision makers need and
want to see, and to make the best case for your projects.
The Fast Track Business Case is designed for that purpose,
providing a unique system for proposing projects - designed for the
electronic preparation, submission and approval of project business
case proposals. You get the tools you need and secrets you can
use to prepare winning business case proposals for any type of
project.
The Project Planning Roadmap
Version 2
In order to execute any project, you first
have to define your project "vision" - what are you working towards, why
does it matter, how will results be achieved, and what constraints will
you face along the way? It takes a process to define a
project, allowing work to begin and making success possible. The Project
Planning Roadmap tackles that process, providing
you with the tools you need to plan definition tasks and activities,
considering all the requirements, issues and deliverables needed to
produce successful results.
The Project Management Bundle: Best Value for Project Managers! You get (6) products, with more that (250+) pages of steps and instructions, and (20+) forms and templates. This bundle is available for download or on CD for $249 - a savings of 20% compared to individual product titles.