Virtual Multinational teams present added challenges … not taught in your typical college class or PM boot camp! Especially in European Projects/Partnerships, you will work with multinational teams. The time zone difference between Latvia or Turkey and the Canarian Islands makes 2 hours (to the Azores 3 hours). The cultural… Read More »Virtual Multinational Teams
The last milestone was passed, the product is ready, the customers are satisfied – ok, that’s the end of the project. The end of the project does not mean the end of the related work in the project. If you want to finish seriously, there are some other steps waiting… Read More »Project Closing
Meetings are important – more important might be the outcome of meetings. These meeting’s results are summarized and described in minutes. Here are some of the experiences we’ve had over the past few years. Useful hints to make it better Reading the issues mentioned above, you will want to get… Read More »Minutes
Last year, I was part of a project team with a somewhat chaotic and inexperienced project manager. The project plan was poor and consisted of an Excel sheet with the designation of the work packages, a list of the most important contents of the work packages, an indication of the… Read More »The Project Plan
Do you know this situation: In the project, a partner asks you to upload a document with the announcement of a joint event on the website? You upload the document. One day later, the partner sends a new document: In yesterday’s document a few small things were corrected – now… Read More »Version Control of Documents
Xoyondo, an interesting European tool can help you in the coordination of meetings and offers a simple but efficient poll feature.
There are hard facts to measure the success of a project. The first is time and if you were able to manage your project in the foreseen timeframe it’s a success – that’s clear. The second factor is budget. Keeping the budget is a success factor in any case. The… Read More »Evaluation of the success of a project
The Business Dictionary defines a project as: Planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations. Business Dictionary This short sentence includes several important key words which characterize perfectly what a project should be. Planned: There is a specific structure… Read More »What is a Project?
Participating in many European projects at different level (from KA 1 up to KA 3) I had the opportunity to watch various project managers at work. In some projects I was the responsible project manager – in others I could watch the project manager in charge and thereby draw my… Read More »Failure in Project Management