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PROJECT MANAGEMENT - Definition
Search Dictionary: Meaning of PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Computing Dictionary. Definition: The process of planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling the production of a system. Software tools are available to help with this, e.g.

Project Management, Definition of Project Management
... people are asked for a definition of project management, most will offer a description of attributes or ... Month: Toward a Meaningful Definition of Project Management. Mark Mullaly is ...

Project Scope Management - Definition
... 5.3 Project Scope Management. Scope Definition. Scope definition involves subdividing ... major deliverables of the project, including project management. The major deliverables should ...

Project Management Guides - Project Definition
Spottydog's Project Management Web Site. Project Definition. You can now buy the guide for only U.S. Purchase online using the our secure credit card transaction service from ... the production of a Project Definition document, sometimes called a Project Charter. The Project Definition document ...

Latest Project Management News and Articles

Oracle Projects for Outsourced Business Services
Outsourced business service providers all share common needs: streamline operations to manage profitability, maintain contracted service levels and customer satisfaction. Oracle Projects is the next revolution in Enterprise Project Management. It builds on Oracle Projects' experience with over 2500 customers in key industries, so you have all the information you need to manage the full lifecycle of all your projects.

Hospital intranet blogging.
Working notes from D. Keith Robinson's project of moving most of the hospital's intranet into Moveable Type. Useful observations on deployment, template design, new uses (project coordination). "Don’t let anyone tell you that you need to spend thousands of dollars to do distributed authorship or content management the right way. It’s simply not true." (Staff time excluded, of course.)

Mower musings: 5 blognet justifications.

Matt Mower skyped me in my early morning hours. Blame errors or recollection on being awake all night.

Speaking from theory, what might be some core business cases for intranet blognets?

Project communication.

Team blogs. Project aggregators and RSS feeds. Individual blogs. Blog your thinking as you scope the project. Blog flash reports. Meeting minutes. Task notes. Use a blog-to-email gateway for stakeholder communications. Socialize new project members faster and more completely. Create better after action reports.

Projects often fail due to poor communication. Blogs aren't a magic pill, but they are a fast and cheap way to produce more and better communication. More, because blogs lower some of the barriers to communication and create personal and peer reinforcement for sharing. Better, because blognets' social nature also improves the quality and context of those communications. The PMBOK describes a basic project communication; you can live it with blognets.

Scale social network from small to medium, medium to large

When your workforce can fit in your neighborhood Starbucks, everyone knows each other. Blognets help you scale that experience. Do you plan for growth? Foster blognets to smooth the way, to preserve values and culture, to reinforce the informal organization that gets things done.

Cross stovepipes

Marketing doesn't talk to engineering? Raise two blognets. Expose them to each other with discovery tools. Not only are you getting blogging's baseline benefits, hidden processes and thinking see daylight, and you can improve the quality of dialog.

Due diligence

Merging with another department or company? Buying one in the next few years? Selling your company? Start your blognets now. Help appraisers value your org's social capital. Reveal the power of your informal networks, your workforce's individual and collective knowledge and capacity.

You're buying one of two apparently identical firms, but one has a healthy blognet. Which has lower risk? Which gives you an added factor to consider, reinforcing management's claims?

Transition and Continuity Management

Your chiefs adopt a new strategy. The new direction calls for changing the workforce over 2-3 years. Layoffs. Mergers. Retraining. Recruiting. Retirement. For the chiefs, blognets shorten new hire learning curves. Help two organizations merge their informal social networks faster and with less struggle. For individuals, blognets strengthen your personal brand (good or bad, but stronger) and improve your marketability within the enterprise.

And I haven't even evoked tying blogs to your enterprise systems and processes. "akasig" 

Director Ron Howard shares project management insights

Director Ron Howard spoke about project management with Charlie Rose this week.

On executive sponsorship of projects...

If they're going to make a movie, it's a big deal. Every movie is an investment, a commitment. You want a studio that believes.

Finding a project's spirit. Project scope as narrative...

It's my hook on the movie. It's making some sort of connection or defining a thematic value that I think I understand and that I think I can express to an audience. Then I have something to bring it. Otherwise I'm a technician setting up camera angles. I can do that, but I'm not really offering anybody much. But if I can come to understand the story, then I have conversations with the actors that can add up to something that can be meaningful. And I have a way of evaluating each and every moment. Because at the end of the day it's not so much about setting up camera angles, it's really about making a thousand little choices during the course of any one day.

The payback from effective communication of your vision...

Once you discover what the film can be, you can then begin to sort of rally everyone. And it becomes a kind of an organism. And it's moving together. And it's exciting to be at the center of that. Because this consciousness is now making a lot of creative decisions and suddenly it's very exciting because everyone's ideas are working in concert in synch. As a director you wind up saying 'yes' a lot more than you say 'no' because you've been able to create a sort of a sensibility, you know how to fulfill it and everyone starts seeing roughly the same movie. That's what I love, that's what excites me. 

Can you say emergent project management?  "akasig"

INDIA SHOULD REPLICATE CHINA'S PROJECT MANAGEMENT: CHIDAMBARAM (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Infrastructure Concerned over huge cost and time over-runs of mega projects, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said India should replicate China in project management to speed up infrastructure development.