Keeping Your Project Within Budget
By Bruce Beer, PMP:
Note: This is Part 2 of the Keeping Your Project on Track series. Click here to read Part 1, Keeping Your Project on Time.
The first in this series of “Keeping Your Project on Track” dealt with how to keep your…
Quality Planning – Is It Really Worth It? (part 2)
by Bruce Beer, PMP:
In Part 1, we introduced the difficulty of trying to create a quality plan on complex projects without historicals. Here, we complete the series by discussing the objectives and components of a quality plan.
What is…
Quality Planning – Is It Really Worth It? (part 1)
By Bruce Beer, PMP:
This is Part 1 of a two-part series.
OK, so most Project Managers who have attended any type of project management class will have had “Quality” thrown at them with the outline of what should go into a “Quality…
Virtual Teams and PMOs – The European Experience
By Bruce Beer, PMP:
Working with virtual teams and PMOs has enough challenges when they are all contained in the USA; however when these teams are global with different time zones and languages, it has a certain dimension that adds “interest”…
How Triage Techniques Might Have Helped Toyota, Part 2
by Bruce Beer, PMP:
Earlier, we began exploring Toyota’s quality and performance problems through 2010 and how Triage efforts could help them recover before it is too late. In this post, we continue that discussion. (Click here to read…
How Triage Techniques Might Have Helped Toyota, Part 1
By Bruce Beer, PMP:
This is the first of two posts.
How can a company that built its reputation on quality have been in the state where they seemed to be pilloried from all directions due to quality failures?
Toyota was in trouble,…