Introduction to Project Management
This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on successful management of projects.
6.2 Issue and Change Management in Projects
Risk vs issue vs change, how to work an issue to closure, the four places a change request actually goes, the four-line change note, and when re-baselining is honest.
5.4 Agile vs Waterfall: How to Choose an Approach
Agile vs Waterfall without the tribalism: the one variable that actually differs, what each approach buys and costs, seven questions to choose, and why hybrid is normal.
3.4 Risk Management: Register, Matrix, Response
How to run project risk management that changes behaviour: finding specific risks, scoring them, choosing among the four responses, and writing triggers that fire.
3.0 Project Planning Basics: Scope, Schedule, Risk
The four things every project plan has to settle — what you are delivering, by when, with whom, and what could go wrong — and what goes wrong on real projects when any one of them is left vague.
1.3 Projects vs Operations: How to Tell Them Apart
Projects vs daily operations: how the two differ in purpose, metrics and management, why project work always loses the calendar fight, and how to protect it.