Writing the Project Statement of Work
Business Management, Management, Project management No Comments »The Statement of Work, or SOW, is the bible for the work the project must produce. The SOW is a key governance tool whether it is being used to direct work for a vendor or contractor, or it is being used to direct the work internally, the SOW must contain a description of all the work that is expected.
The description need not be at the detail level, indeed for large projects capturing detail in the SOW is not practical, but should be comprehensive and include work that produces the projects deliverables as well as administrative work such as project reporting.
Why Project Stakeholders Are Key in Making and Breaking Project Managers
Management, Performance Management, Project management No Comments »Project stakeholders are a key element of any delivery. They determine direction, refine the scope and basically ensure it gets delivered. In theory that sounds wonderful. In practice it translates into something else altogether.
You see the reality is that these key individuals can either make or break a delivery unless the PM has developed the necessary soft skills to successfully work with them.
Having delivered countless projects over the years I know this only too well from first hand experience. You need to understand the different types of stakeholder on your team as well as what their aims and motivation are.
You Don’t Do a Good Job at Multitasking - Get Over It
Business Management, Project management No Comments »Too little time, too much to do. Does that adequately describe your CIO job? I don’t know about you, but often is the time that I’ve looked with envy at my peers who are great multitaskers and wished that I could be more like them. It turns out that I was wishing for the wrong thing - multitaskers actually do a lousy job at just about everything.
The Study
Ruth Pennenaker reports that some researchers at Stanford University have just completed a groundbreaking study on people who multitask. You know who you are - you’re talking on the phone even as you are answering emails and zipping off text messages on you iPhone all at the same time. Oh how I have so wanted to be you!
Project management is a very specialized and often complex task, and requires more training than the average programmer or executive might expect in very specific organizational tasks. To meet this demand, professional groups such as the Project Management Institute (PMI) were organized to set standards for the training of project managers.
In general, to become a project manager, you need lots of hands-on training. To be awarded the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), a project management candidate must acquire at least 1500 hours of work on a project team or 23 contact hours of formal project management education. Read the rest of this entry »
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