Process for Project Management

By Cristina Lee, COO, The Tatham Group Phils

 If you think managing a project is all about using good techniques and tools, think again. There is a process for managing a project, more than just using tools!

A lot of instances (and I have seen this happen so many times), there is a tendency to start out building a GANTT – and project management software prompts this behavior – without considering the fundamental purpose of the project, or even have any clear idea of how to systematically go about it. In other words, the project management tools drive and manage the project.

It should be the people driving the project.

Three Simple Questions

By John Munce, Deployment Executive, The Tatham Group

Last week I went in for a little outpatient procedure.  To me, any surgery is major surgery.  But to the doctors it was minor, routine, no big deal.  

When I arrived for the pre-surgery checklist with the three nurses and the anesthetist the clerk handed me an admissions packet.  I flipped through it.  The contents were much more interesting than I expected.