November 30, 2011 7:21 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
You need to build a team for any of your project. None of the sizeable projects can be done by a single person. Building a team is not an easy task, as it involves all kind of right skills in the Project Manager to perform a right kind of permutation and combination to choose perfect match of team...
November 27, 2011 6:55 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project managerAn unconnected, isolated and purely professional project manager cannot and should not expect a connection between him and his team members on personal grounds. If this doesn’t affect the project manager it could be ok for his sake but as far as business and work is concerned, it is a well proven...
November 25, 2011 8:13 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
You need not have a magic wand in your hand to accelerate your project in terms of financial savings or time saving. Logically if you see, any component of a project, I mean any member of a project, working on project at any level, can contribute in accelerating or pushing his/her...
November 25, 2011 7:40 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project stakeholder,
Software ProjectA project consists of various stakeholders – some internal and some external. Stakeholders of the project usually live on another planet. Being a stakeholder in a project give them a feel that they are like a king of the land called PROJECT ruling on the teams working in their project territory....
November 25, 2011 6:54 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project cost,
project management,
project sponsors,
self sponsored project,
Software ProjectAny project can be made successful if two of its components are left unnoticed, which are – expenses on the project and time limits. Though both of them are the most critical components and none of the projects on this earth can be run or finished on the basis of ignoring these two components....
November 24, 2011 6:13 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Business function,
business process,
process capability,
process management,
process owner,
project management,
Software ProjectA big corporate starts new business and hence a new company takes birth. Though it is a new setup, there is a mix of old and new employees and similar is the case with business processes. Some old processes are adopted as it is, whereas some process are formed totally newly based on the learning...
November 20, 2011 2:52 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Project,
project management,
Software ProjectNo management ever wants any of the ongoing large scale projects in the organization getting failed or substantially delayed due to two main factors – one, their reputation is at stake, and two, they are bound to lose some of their personal financial kitty in that case. But still we see many of...
November 20, 2011 1:57 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
erp project,
project management,
Software ProjectI recently visited a reputed international manufacturing company having 98% revenues from exports to various countries. The setup was somewhat like 3 manufacturing units in a major metro, creating a sort of zone. Another manufacturing unit was in a far off place taking 4 days to reach by road...
November 15, 2011 5:36 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
ERP,
Greenfield project,
project management,
Software ProjectERP implementation in a Greenfield project that takes place for a new factory or office setup, as per my understanding, should be totally different from a conventional ERP implementation that takes place in an already running plant of office environment. None of the modules as such are required to...
November 7, 2011 5:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
Software ProjectA regular type of work all the time makes it boring and typed thereby taking away all the variety that one needs in life for progress. This leads to a stale state of mindset where you set yourself limited to only one kind of thinking that to a certain extent. Some ice breaking is required to get...
November 7, 2011 5:03 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project managementLet us consider a project as a journey. For any journey you need to decide about lot of things in advance and during the journey. Time to time these decisions need to be looked into even if the journey has started to ensure that even if those have been taken, are they leading you to right direction...