Few projects out there are as big and complex as the Olympic games. They're truly in a category of their own due to their massive visibility and the world scale construction projects leading up to it. It gets awarded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to the host city more than 10 years in advance of the two-week long event, and the entire decade is spent in a … [Read more...]
A project manager must deal with many different issues on a daily basis, for example, The project deadlines are firm but the resources are occupied. The deadlines have been tightened but the quality must stay the same. The customer wants a higher quality product at the same price. In order to balance these often competing objectives, the Project Management … [Read more...]
Putting out fires is rarely a good project management strategy, even though most project managers have so much experience with it that they could take it up as a second career. Suffice it to say that project control is where the project manager earns their wages. Project control is the tasks required to ensure the project is completed on time, on budget, … [Read more...]
