Strategy Management Group announces that the Project Management Institute (PMI®), the world’s largest project management member association, has named it as a Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.).
Refusing to Ask for Help One of the most common mistakes made by inexperienced project managers is the belief that asking for help will make them seem incompetent in the eyes of their peers and management. Nothing could be further from the truth. Good project managers...
Not Fully Understanding Requirements The more inexperienced the project manager, the greater the likelihood the project manager will use his/her interpretation of the requirements rather than consulting with the subject matter experts. This can lead to misdirection in...
Failing to Understand What Stakeholders and Sponsors Want to Hear One of the requirements to pass the PMP® exam is an understanding of Cost Management and more specifically, the formulas attributed to earned value measurement. Although there is obviously merit in...
Gold-plating the Deliverables Most project managers want to placate the customer. However, there are limits as to how far the project manager should go. Gold-plating the deliverables after the scope has been agreed to can be very costly. In addition, the customer...
