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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wideman PM Website updates announced for March 2010
Max Wideman has announced the updates to his popular project management website for February 2010. According to the email from Max, here are the items to be added to his website in March.
Are you one of those project managers charged with serious cost control? If so, ever tried to figure out how to apply the chapter on cost management in the PMBOK® Guide — especially, managing contingencies and allowances? Then read the explanations and recommendations in Roger Parish's Guest paper: PMBOK® Guide Fourth Edition - Unraveling Project Reserves.
Are Emails undermining your project's productivity? Are they a part of your project's cost, and should they be? See Tom Mochal's suggestions in Max's Musings on the topic of Estimating Corporate Man-hours and the Place of Emails.
Or perhaps you have recently moved up to program manager and are facing unconscionable chaos and need sound advice on senior real-world salesmanship and relationship building? Then see Max's book review of Dr. James T. Brown's The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management.
This month Max has split old Issacon 1440 into two new ones:
1440 Stakeholder Management - Part A (Why and Who); and
1440a Stakeholder Management - Part B (How).
Max has also updated 1014 Getting It Done and 1208 Business Case: Strategy
If you are looking for answers, guidelines or templates, check out Max's Issacons - "Issues and Considerations" - that are presented in bullet form for quick and easy reference by project managers.
Have you seen Max's book A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration? For information or to order a copy, visit http://www.maxwideman.com/papers/framework_book/intro.htm. Do you have a project management question? Find the answer at: http://www.maxwideman.com.
Max Wideman is one of the world's best-known project management authorities. An engineer and professional project manager, his experience includes systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he is past president and chairman and for which he led the development of the 1987 version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. His personal web site at http://www.maxwideman.com is a source of superior project management knowledge and information. It is free to the public. Max Wideman is also a global advisor to PMForum and PM World Today; additional information about Max can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/advisors.htm.
Are Emails undermining your project's productivity? Are they a part of your project's cost, and should they be? See Tom Mochal's suggestions in Max's Musings on the topic of Estimating Corporate Man-hours and the Place of Emails.
Or perhaps you have recently moved up to program manager and are facing unconscionable chaos and need sound advice on senior real-world salesmanship and relationship building? Then see Max's book review of Dr. James T. Brown's The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management.
This month Max has split old Issacon 1440 into two new ones:
1440 Stakeholder Management - Part A (Why and Who); and
1440a Stakeholder Management - Part B (How).
Max has also updated 1014 Getting It Done and 1208 Business Case: Strategy
If you are looking for answers, guidelines or templates, check out Max's Issacons - "Issues and Considerations" - that are presented in bullet form for quick and easy reference by project managers.
Have you seen Max's book A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration? For information or to order a copy, visit http://www.maxwideman.com/papers/framework_book/intro.htm. Do you have a project management question? Find the answer at: http://www.maxwideman.com.
Max Wideman is one of the world's best-known project management authorities. An engineer and professional project manager, his experience includes systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he is past president and chairman and for which he led the development of the 1987 version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. His personal web site at http://www.maxwideman.com is a source of superior project management knowledge and information. It is free to the public. Max Wideman is also a global advisor to PMForum and PM World Today; additional information about Max can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/advisors.htm.