by Kiron Bondale | Jun 26, 2022 | Agile, governance, improving project management, project management, team building
Playing a board game without all participants having a consistent understanding of the rules is a frustrating, time-wasting experience. The same is true when a team starts to work together for the first time. Whether it is done proactively when the team assembles or...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 21, 2022 | communications, improving project management, project management, Risk Management, Stakeholder analysis
I’ve often referenced Dr. David Hillson’s definition of risk as “uncertainty that matters” in my articles about project risk management. The last word in that short sentence is critical. If stakeholders don’t feel that the information presented to them about a risk...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 21, 2022 | governance, improving project management, project decision making, project management, Project performance, Stakeholder analysis
One of the distinguishing characteristics of project work is that we are usually expected to deliver value in uncertain conditions while facing multiple constraints. While it is important for a team to understand the external constraints they have and to define...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 5, 2022 | governance, improving project management, project management, Risk Management
Most project managers will include some contingency reserves within their budget to offset the negative financial impacts of realized risks. Determining how much to put aside for a rainy day might be done from a top-down method such as using a flat percentage derived...
by Kiron Bondale | May 29, 2022 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, lessons learned, project management
Projects provide a great opportunity for teams to develop new skills and to learn what works and what doesn’t in a given context. But to truly institutionalize the knowledge gained by a given team, it needs to be communicated to others so that they might also benefit....
by Kiron Bondale | May 22, 2022 | improving project management, project decision making, project management
When a project is bigger than can be delivered efficiently with a single large team, it is common practice to divide the work among a number of smaller teams. While the coordination overhead of managing multiple teams is introduced, doing so reduces the effort...
