Planning
Focus on Important Tasks
Help yourself focus on the first important task in the morning by putting that task on your keyboard before you leave the office the day before. This reminds you as …
Keep Tidy Desks
Encourage your team (and yourself) to spend a specific time each week in tidying their desk. This should include: Stacking and filing piles of paper neatly. Putting papers into sections …
Simple Document System
At the start of a project, take the time to make sure the documentation system is as simple and easy to use as possible. Ideally, you shouldn’t have folders within …
Early Change is Best
Change is easier and cheaper to make at the start of a project than later on. The later a change is made on a project, the more expensive it becomes. …
Tight Schedules
Bid teams / tender teams often bid for projects that the company can’t do. They will make a schedule that is too tight, or have milestones that are impossible to …
Risk Activities
Put risk activities in your schedule (plan). Your client is more likely to accept allowances for risk if you can show how it is worked out, how long it is …
Too good is not good
If everything on a project is going well, take the time to look for things that have been overlooked. Going too well may mean something is wrong.
Good Document System
If you have control of the system at the start of a project, make sure the project (or even at the program level, project office level, or company level) uses …
PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices
Join PMI (Project Management Institute) and use the PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices This is a good guide for new project managers or PM’s in an organisation without a …