October 2009 - Project Management and Project Tools Blog - IBN Project Management & Help Desk Community

Rethinking Project Success and Failure

I think we have an issue in the field of project management. Defining project success and failure only in terms of on-time and on-budget performance is simplistic and wrong. Software projects are about solving problems for customers. I have seen countless resumes from aspiring project managers and performance reviews that [...]

Published 10-30-2009 12:14 PM by Fear No Project - A Project Management Blog

Filed under: Project management, Best Practice, General Project Management, project success, project failure

Project Managers–What Does Your Team Want From You?

There are character traits that most of us would like to believe we possess and that we want to find in the people we work with and work for: trust, integrity, respect, and honesty—sort of like the mantra of the Boy Scouts. Good project managers have those traits and others that make [...]

Published 10-23-2009 8:10 AM by Fear No Project - A Project Management Blog

Filed under: leadership, Project management, General Project Management, project manager, management

Software Usability – Resources for Usability Evaluation

I had an interesting discussion with several people this week that I could summarize this way: “How does software get designed and built that no-one can use?” “Usability is the combination of fitness for purpose, ease of use, and ease of learning that makes a product effective.” according to the University [...]

Published 10-16-2009 2:44 PM by Fear No Project - A Project Management Blog

Filed under: Best Practice, software, Usability, software development

Friction-Free Collaboration

Yammer removes the friction in company-wide collaboration.

Published 10-10-2009 1:34 PM by Reforming Project Management

Filed under: collaboration, tools, innovation, design, Yammer

10 Project Management Mistakes

Mistakes happen. Bad luck happens. But, when the same mistakes occur over and over again to different PMs on multiple projects, we really should figure out a way to avoid them, but we don’t. We call this lessons learned in the business – and believe me, it is better to learn from [...]

Published 10-10-2009 1:18 PM by Fear No Project - A Project Management Blog

Filed under: Project management, Best Practice, General Project Management, project failure, project mistakes

Project Management Resource Survey 2009–Challenges

This is the third post in a series on the Resource Management Survey that was conducted. In my experience, having and consistently using, the most appropriate resource management tools is essential to effective project management. In the past couple weeks I talked about our survey on the state of resource management across [...]

Published 10-02-2009 9:45 AM by Fear No Project - A Project Management Blog

Filed under: Project management, General Project Management, resource management

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