How to Avoid Project Failure through Project Planning and Effective Project Recovery
After extensive project planning, you feel assured that everything will go smoothly. However, when project failure does occur, what do you do? An effective recovery plan will first evaluate how serious the failure is and see what is salvageable. By using the medical term triage and applying it your situation, you can initiate project recovery and help save your work.

Putting the Cart After the Horse: Project Planning and Scope Definition
Without proper project planning that defines scope and Work Breakdown Structure, it's easy for projects to get out of hand in today' s complex business world. Learn how to define your project from the beginning and help keep it on time and on budget.

Why Do Projects Fail?
by Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene By and large, good programmers have one universal response to bad management: "It' s not my problem." Unfortunately, it is your problem. You may not be able to control it directly, but if you put your head in the sand and keep coding, your project can fail no matter how good your work is. And in the end, you may be seen as a poor performer because of that failure.

Four starting points for effective IT project and portfolio management
By Hewlett-Packard Company Traditional IT project management techniques aren’t working very well. And the problem isn’t just that projects are coming in late or over budget. Even when projects are executed successfully, all too often they fail to deliver business benefits. The lack of the “big picture” is at the heart of the IT project management office (PMOs) challenge.

Harbor Masters: With Oracle, KCI Technologies prepared Annapolis for Volvo Ocean Race.
By Monica Mehta A massive dredging project puts the City of Annapolis and KCI Technologies to the test.

Managing Commission Payments
By Rich Freeman There is no single formula for determining how many IT employees your company needs. But follow a few basic principles and you' ll strike a balance between controlling headcount and meeting business objectives.

Infosys Counts on Processes
By John Ribeiro In an industry where staff turnover is a fact of life, outsourcing companies need to plan for attrition. Bangalore-based Infosys, India' s second-largest outsourcer, counts on processes and a knowledge-management system to retain customer requirements and business information if employees leave.

Holding Consultants Accountable
By Bruce Hoard Midsize companies increasingly find the need for outside consultants, but how do you find the right people and manage the relationship successfully?

Taking Control of Projects
By Alan R. Earls The Project Controller module in Microsoft Dynamics SL provides key capabilities for managing project-based businesses.

Managing Small Projects
As both an active project manager and project management trainer, I often get asked whether the project management best practices that are applicable for large projects can be applied on smaller projects. This is a really important question and one which all project managers must face up to when managing small projects.