Learnings for managing legal risks as a manager
Some of the things that I think will be helpful for managing legal risks when you are a manager.
Set climate of fairness thatis free from harassment
Monitor hiring, promotion and discipline procedures for fairness.
Observe employee and manager behavior and address inappropriate behaviors immediately.
Respond to complaints in all fairness and promptly.
Document whatever you can, do not delete [...]
SAP Project ROI
The average cost for a three-year SAP deployment is $10m, with consulting accounting for $3.6m, personnel soaking up $2.5m, software licenses another $2m, and related hardware and training costs picking up the rest of the tab. Companies surveyed saw some benefits from workers being able to manipulate data more quickly with SAP products and better [...]
Optimization of Project Plans
Optimization of Project Plans
Optimization of the project plan should be a continuous improvement activity that should be done on a regular basis. Estimates for work and duration should be updated regularly along with the relation ship changes among the activities, if required. Critical Path analysis should be done on a regular basis. The following key [...]
Project Management Interview Questions
According to the PMI, why is scheduling overtime “extremely bad technique?”
Can there be more than one Critical Path? Why or why not?
Compare a WBS, Gantt, and PERT:
Does your organization use Earned Value, or something similar?
How are contractors and vendors handled in your organization?
How can a clearly defined project plan help handle “scope creep?”
How can an [...]
Optimization Of Project Plans
Optimization of Project Plans
Optimization of the project plan should be a continuous improvement activity that should be done on a regular basis. Estimates for work and duration should be updated regularly along with the relation ship changes among the activities, if required. Critical Path analysis should be done on a regular basis. The following key [...]
Risk Management for unknown events
“Protecting the value of a project involves dealing with the uncertainty that will be associated with its delivery. The role of Project Management is to assist in turning uncertain events and efforts into certain outcomes and promises. If this is the case, then the primary process associated with project management should be that of risk [...]
Future of Outsourcing
Future of Outsourcing This article talks about the benefits small, medium and big companies have made by outsourcing their business processes. This article also talks about that now ‘Processes are no sale” off the shelf by these companies whose initial focus was just supporting the outsourced product or service. This article also talks about the superior [...]
Art of Winning Office Politics
The art of battling office politics is nicely covered in site content http://www.officepolitics.com/promo_hr/promo_hr_index.html. This is an excellent site with a lot of content to handle Office Politics. I sometimes used to shutdown when things started getting worse due to politics. But I think some of the things mentioned in this site are just awesome and reinforces [...]
Team Operating Agreements for Projects
Team operating agreement defines the success of the project or an initiative. Gives all involved parties a shared vision. It aligns the intent with the vision among the stakeholders. It provides a strategy to achieve success. It establishes the cultural norms which could be new or existing for an organization. It provides responsibility, accountability and [...]
Critical Path Analysis - My experiences
Critical Path Analysis would have helped me in past had I done that earlier in one of the larger projects that I managed/led. There was another manager I was working with on that project. That project was for a Bank in Hong Kong and the over all project was around 1 year in duration and [...]
Team Building
Team building is the process of building a good team - ie: one that performs well together.
In order to decide the best way to embark on a team building programme, you should first be able to see the difference between a group, a team and a good team. If you do proper team building with [...]
In your opinion, what is the most difficult project constraint to manage? How can you deal with this?
What are the project constraints?
Time
For analytical purposes, the time required to produce a deliverable is estimated using several techniques. One method is to identify tasks needed to produce the deliverables documented in a work breakdown structure or WBS. The work effort for each task is estimated and those estimates are rolled up into the final [...]
Saving Microsoft project as a Access file for more reporting.
If you know how to write good SQL and have some good understanding of database tables. Sometimes if you want to develop some custom reports of the data present in Microsoft Project you may want to save it as a Access file .mdb and open that mdb file in Microsoft Access now you have all the [...]
How do you handle conflict?
I hope we are here referring to inter personal conflict since intrapersonal conflict usually is not taken care of by a business organization.
Usually both the parties are listened to and a remdey is taken most appropriate for the projects success, irrespective of the political weight of the persons involved. I have seen that at most [...]
How do you assign roles and responsibilities?
Being an Independent consultant gives me opportunity to taste many different flavors. I have seen organizations where resources are considered just bodies and they consider almost everyone can do anything and in others I have seen where proper weight is given to resources for some specific knowledge and care is taken not assign the SME’s [...]