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The Multi-Project Challenge
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Here we will have a detail discussion on the time-efficient and cost-effective strategies to evaluate, select, prioritize, plan, and manage multiple projects. Presents proven methods and practical applications for the development of successful project portfolios and prosperous multiproject environments. Share your thoughts on it...
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Right Planning, Right team,Coordination and Review
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Create Program management office (PMO)
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Dhananjay Raturi
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"Depends"
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See it's all about juggling constraints in the optimal way.But your constraints are different in different situations Assuming you are managing projects of similar kind 1.Identify opportunities threats -- common activities? project...
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Goharr Mumtaz
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"Proper classification and arrangement of projects "
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Thanks Samir for your support, as you have asked how we decide priorities: 1. Duration of Project as some time it happen we are having a long term milestone and another of short term, that can be manage easily. 2. If you are working on a product...
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Radha V
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"Right Planning, Right team,Coordination and Review"
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There should be proper planning about the deliverables,one of the pre-requiste thing while working in a project is the co-ordination, better in terms called as Team Unity and being in par with synch and Mutual Understanding and timely reviewing...
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Ideate: "How to manage multiple projects ?" deleted from your view.
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Time Management is also a big challange.
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Proritizing the project / program management tasks.
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attar singh
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"Time Management is also a big challange."
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I am to say that time management is a very big challange to multiprojects.If time will be controlled that automatically the cost will controlled.
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Samir Das
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"Proritizing the project / program management tasks."
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Yes i completely agree with you that prioritizing the multi project is big issue.Each individual project is has a certain characteristic feature which is important for the project so project manager has to take care all of them at a time which is...
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Ideate: "What are the challanges related to multiproject? " deleted from your view.
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Administrative part or technical part
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Both
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Biranchi Narayan Acharya
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" Both"
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In one line, a project manager need to provide a good leadership for any project to be accomplished. A good leadership can only be provided by a leader who has skills of every subject that is under his purview. Thus a project manager need to be...
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Ramya Gundavajhula
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"Administrative part or technical part"
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I understand that a multi project is one which is a cumulation of many smaller projects.When we are talking about a project manager I think that it is his/her responsibility to give equal importance to all parts of the project.He/she should be...
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Anirban Bhattacharya
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" Both"
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By default a project manager should handle all administrative part. But monitoring and control is so intricate part of a project, that if not handles properly, a project is bound to fail here. Practically if a PM wants to be a sucessful PM, he...
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Debate: "Which role is to be played by project manager: Administrative part or technical part of the multi project or both." deleted from your view.
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Project classification system
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Proper portfolio management
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Shivendra Pandey
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"Through Group Programming techneque..."
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Although sounds like an IT solution to the problem but actually Group Programming is a generic term used for Multi tasking a Job using a team rather than a individual with limited skill set.. Useful in retaining the knowledge base of the company...
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Amit Khan
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" Product strategy "
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Product road map should be the driver to decide on the projects and priorities.
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Ideate: "How two Product Development Organizations can improve their Multi-Project Management." deleted from your view.
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With so many projects to handle. How often should one review their project portfolio ???
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RanjithKumar Panjabikesan, PMP
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Project Portfolio Reviews and assessment should be done at frequent intervals to facilitate 1. Right Mix of Projects are in the Portfolio (ie, A portfolio should nt have too many risky projects or too many Low value projects) 2. Terminate the...
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Prasun Singhal
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You should very often review your project portfolio, it might be when the release date changes, when your project is completed, when new product is introduced in the market and when you have enough information about the next version of a product
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Does size of the multiproject affect the tracking process? Please advice!!!!!!!!
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Sabyasachi Gupta
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Size estimation is NOT the first step. We must analyze 'what are the processing requirements' and 'who are the users and their role in this project' as first step. As an answer to the question 'how tracking size attributes to monitor' -I would...
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RanjithKumar Panjabikesan, PMP
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For any projects, size estimation is the first step to be performed to determine the magnitude of the project. There are various estimation models industry wide accepted that could be used 1. LOC (Lines of Code) 2. FP (Function Points) 3. UCP...
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Answer: "How tracking project size attributes to monitor project progress ?" deleted from your view.
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Research indicates that project management becomes increasingly difficult when there are multiple overlapping projects. How PMO helps to enhance the success rate of multi project?
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Mihir Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM
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Hi Dipen Kindly find the high level points of what is expected out of PMO in a organization. Based on my expericence in setting up the PMO in couple of companaies, have put across the points. This may be different for each organization or there...
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RanjithKumar Panjabikesan, PMP
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Generally, PROJECT OFFICE should supply scalable services built on what organization needs. In other words Project Office might start very small grow or scale up as the need within Organization increases. Following are the various services...
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Answer: " What is the Role of the Project Management Office(PMO) in a multiproject environment?" deleted from your view.
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Well Defined SCOPE...!!!
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Project Planning is important
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indyacentral
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"Try to visualize the unseen factors"
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Its human tendency that what you visualize that much only you can think. but there are always hidden factors which we are not able to visualize. Like you said the bridge construction example where you can visualize what length should be kept but...
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Dipen Trivedi
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"Project Planning is important"
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Yes Planning is the initial and most important part of completing the project successfully.Determining costs associated with the project,the duration of the project,allocation of tasks to different project members etc.all this forms part of the...
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varsha
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"Well Defined SCOPE...!!!"
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yes i do agree with it.. scpoe if is clearly defined .. its half way successfully travelled for any project.. so it make a proper synchronization of all efford which will lead to success of any project..
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Site worker
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Office worker
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sakthivel
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In construction industry all works is a result of team effort. Obviously Site Workers do hard work in field but credits should go to both Site workers and Office workers.
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Resmi Maxim
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"Office worker"
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Both Site and Office staff work towards achieving a common goal. Though they carry out different functions, integrated working plays a key role in the success of the Project. While the Site job involves more physical exertion, the Office job...
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Devi Kaladeen
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"Office worker"
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I am not supporting that any of the two functions are more important than the other since you cannot compare an office worker to a site worker . Both of these workers are employed to do specific tasks. An engineer cannot do the work of an...
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Debate: "Site worker Vs Office worker" deleted from your view.
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Theory
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Practice
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Pamela
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"Practice"
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Practice is the best way to start with implementation. Practice can be used, studied, and refined. It is faulty to create theory that has not been proven to work and accepted because the possibility exists that theory is not effective as stated....
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Vijay Bhaskar
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"Theory"
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It does seem like a chicken and egg scenario but it is not so. Theory is subjective and practice - if done properly is objective. But again unless the manager is not well versed in the subjectivity of the situation, it cannot be sifted to choose...
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Makrand Bhave
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"Theory"
| 3 years ago
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Practice makes MAn perfect! The old adage comes true every now and then! When you are selling it always helps to make mock calls! Mock calls help in understanding the consumer and gives an insight to the sales person as to HOW can he navigate the...
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Debate: "Managing Projects: Theory or Practice ?" deleted from your view.
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