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Welcome to this issue of PROJECTmagazine, your one stop shop for project management information. Looking for your next job? It could be waiting for you right here , courtesy of Wellingtone Project Management. If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
- Paul 'Bear' Bryant (1913-1983) Head coach University of Alabama football team.
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True teamwork is the rarest, most exhilarating, and most productive human activity possible. Every business wants to harness this incredible energy, but achieving such a level of motivation and esprit is not always easy. | | No comments for this item |
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Problem Solving - The Pareto Principle |
The Pareto principle is named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, who figured out that 80% of the wealth in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. The idea was popularised by the likes of Joseph Juran and Kaoru Ishikawa and become commonly known as the 80/20 rule.
It's a 'rule of thumb', an estimation that for many events 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. | | No comments for this item |
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Bid-Evaluation & Procurement |
The Pairwise comparison [AHP] technique is better than the Matrix methodWhen purchasing products or contracting services, we evaluate bids. This critical decision-making activity has two global requirements: Objectivity and Transparency. | | No comments for this item |
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We’ve all had this experience. We walk into a meeting for six people at 2:00 p.m. and five out of the six are there but one is not and so we wait. And we wait some more and eventually the other person comes strolling in and our 2:00 p.m. meeting now begins at 2:15 having kept five on-time people waiting, wasting more than a full hour of the organization’s productivity time. | | No comments for this item |
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Data Auditing Quiz: Does Your Compliance Data System Prove Your Innocence? |
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Data Auditing Quiz: Does Your Compliance Data System Prove Your Innocence? One if the biggest mistakes I see when visiting client companies, is their underestimation of how well their compliance data system can be audited. It's understandable. When you build a transaction system, your goal is to run the business. When you build a data warehouse, your goal is to analyze the business. But when does it become your goal to audit your business practices? | | No comments for this item |
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Higher Education Advancement Option for Project Managers |
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Jim Ems slowly worked his way up in the aerospace sector of Northrop Grumman Corporation after completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1982. As he worked his way through the ranks of his company, he kept thinking that he wanted to challenge himself to continue his education. | | No comments for this item |
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Method123 Project Management Methodology |
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Method123 have extended their comprehensive range of project management templates by offering a full functioning methodology based on PMBok©®™ and PRINCE2©®™ best practices. Templates for Project Managers to help you Initiate, Plan, Execute and Close projects while managing staff, customers, suppliers, change, risk, issues and quality. 
Project Management Methodology, templates and case studies
The Project Management Kit includes more than 50 Word and Excel documents with over 300 pages of helpful hints, real-life examples, charts and tables. This Kit is suitable for Project and Business Managers, Consultants, Trainers, Students and anyone else interested in managing projects successfully. And download a FREE copy of their Project Management Guidebook from our downloads section. |
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Open Source Project Management Software |
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If you are into open source project management software you must check out Open Den http://www.openden.com/modules/project-management |
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