Project Management in Practice

5 things to do when projects go wrong

Shoaib Ahmed — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:02:04 PDT

Anyone spending a decent amount of time in project management field will sometimes have projects from time to time that experience significant difficulties. For all the planning, it is never possible...

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Prototyping: storyboarding, paper prototyping

Shoaib Ahmed — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:43:08 PDT

Reblogged from tisquirrel: The three main techniques for rapid prototyping are: storyboarding, paper prototyping, digital prototypes. Read more… 861 more words

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What responsibility do outsourcing organisations bear?

Shoaib Ahmed — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:56:46 PDT

I have taken a bit of time mulling over this post. I was born in Bangladesh, but have been an expat for most of my life. As I looked on in horror at the calamitous scenes from the garment factory...

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Why LinkedIn dumped HTML5 & went native for its mobile apps

Shoaib Ahmed — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:43:29 PDT

Reblogged from VentureBeat: LinkedIn has just launched the latest versions of its mobile apps, and in a stunning reversal, it's gone from mobile web-based apps back to fully native. Less than a year...

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How do I construct the perfect project estimate?

Shoaib Ahmed — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:19:40 PDT

I went to the New Zealand PRINCE2 User Group Wellington Chapter meeting on Tuesday night. As usual the calibre of speakers were excellent. Conrad McDonnell and Barry Calvert spoke on various aspects...

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How do I estimate based on risk?

Shoaib Ahmed — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:44:48 PDT

I have previously contemplated the challenges of keeping to scope and budget and keeping customers happy. If a customer adds new requirements on to a project, it is an easy discussion to have around...

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5 Must dos for recovering failed projects

Shoaib Ahmed — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:35:41 PST

As I was writing my last post on Novopay, I was also contemplating how one can rescue such a project. The minister in charge, Stephen Joyce has announced a $5M fund for addressing the issues. How...

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5 Project Management Reflections on Novopay

Shoaib Ahmed — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:50:08 PST

I have been reading some analysis of the Novopay saga – some in project management domain, others in the media. Those in New Zealand will have seen the project on the news every week for the wrong...

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Competing with cheap opposition

Shoaib Ahmed — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:23:15 PST

The saying if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys used to be quite a true one. In traditional business models where all suppliers came from the same market that extended to projects as well. Today...

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Project management lessons learned from a vacation

Shoaib Ahmed — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:09:24 PST

After nearly a two month hiatus in blog posts, it is time to jump back on the horse. In that time, I have spent five weeks on vacation and either side of it two and a bit weeks in doing handover and...

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