Christmas is approaching, and that means preparation at the North Pole is at fever pitch. Santa delivers to approximately 526 million children under the age of 14 on Christmas Eve. This takes a lot of work! From manufacturing the toys, to the distribution system, and who can forget the Naughty Or Nice list – the […]
Project managers dread presenting project progress to management, and for good reason. It’s hard to give a simple overview of something so complex! How do you present project progress to management? Follow these simple guidelines, and you can turn the dreaded project progress report into a showcase of your success. Know Your Audience You aren’t […]
This is a story about a timeline maker in a small village with a lot of small industrial enterprises. The Timeline Maker Begins The timeline maker had a little store, that he opened on the main street of the town. On the day he opened for business, the neighboring stores’ owners came walking into his […]
It always starts innocently enough. An overlooked detail, perhaps. An illness on the project team. A vendor sheepishly admits they can’t supply something for another two weeks. Whatever the cause, project delays can cascade like an avalanche – a snowball can quickly grow into a skyscraper-sized mass bearing down on you and wiping away everything […]
Gantt charts are project management tools that were actually designed for optimizing factory production lines. For its time, the Gantt chart was a pretty intuitive, visual map of a production line. It showed all the inputs into the final product, the time each input needed, and the order they were run. You could glance at […]