Lee Iwan has written a great article on a beginners guide to project management. He gives a 16 steps of outline in organizing any size of projects. He hightlights the importance of participant and team members as human resources are the key for project success: In my experience, projects must; actively involve all the group members…

Project managers seem to come in two flavors, maybe three. The first flavor are those who follow the PMI guidelines by the book. The second are those who get thrown into project management by way of the “someone had to do it” route. Third would be a hybrid. This addresses those last two types. Let’s talk about some of the basic elements of running a project, and while we’re at it, we will discuss a few methods for running projects that might prove helpful to you.

Talk to an aspiring project manager, or one interviewing at a new company, and one of the first questions is, “Do you use Microsoft Project?” The answer often defines how projects are run at that organization. Project is a great tool, but it is also very complex. It costs a lot. It requires other users…

Another list of tips I have found today is about rules on project manager. Jerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has 100 tips that he have learned over his years of experience of project management. I am totally attracted by the breadth and depth of these…

Q-Success identifies couple of dirty tricks on project management. Some project manager may tries any tricks mentioned below to create the smoke and mirror of managing a project well. It is really fun article to read as it takes another perspective to understand and avoid those tricks better: Natural enemies of a project manager The customer is…

Cameron Moll has done a good job on sharing his experience on being a full-time freelancer. There are 10 things that he have learned over his first 6 months freelancing life. It is interesting to see in term of how to communicate, getting projects, and handling projects: Err on the side of abundant contact Care for the…

Slashdot has featured a book excerpt article on Scott Berkun’s book, The Art of Project Management. You may know Scott from his online articles, or our feature interview with him. In the interview, he talked about his personal objectives and management. The book, Art of Project Management, he captured what he have learned…

In an article called The Smaller the Better, Jeffrey Phillips talks about a good topic on employer/employee relationship on big vs small team. He argues that smaller team has the lean and mean effects on projects: 1. Focus – a manager can spend more time with each person on a smaller team as necessary. 2…