http://www.growthatwork.com Leadership and Career Transition Coaching in Long Beach, New York Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:11:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/08/thinking-through-a-project/ http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/08/thinking-through-a-project/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:53:46 +0000 Yousuf Siddiqui http://www.growthatwork.com/blog/?p=59 Project Managers think through projects all the time. However, people who are not PM’s nor intend to be can benefit from the basic framework of Project Management.

• What are my objectives?
• What are my assumptions?
• What are my risks?
• What is my high level timeline
• What external events is my project dependent upon?
• Who are the stakeholders? (If the project fails, who will be held responsible? If it succeeds, who will take the glory?)

]]> http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/08/thinking-through-a-project/feed/ 0 http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/08/what-is-a-project-and-what-is-not/ http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/08/what-is-a-project-and-what-is-not/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:47:11 +0000 Yousuf Siddiqui http://www.growthatwork.com/blog/?p=54 When explaining the fundamentals of project management to managers, it is a challenge to specify what should be a project and what should not. Sometimes, it is hard for managers to discern between a task and a project. Some tasks require extensive planning. A rule of thumb that I use is that if you have five or more related tasks, they are probably better of being viewed as a small project. The probability of success is higher is these tasks are viewed as a project. The number of 5 used in my rule of thumb is not scientific. However, it has worked well for me in terms of defining projects.

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