OUR ARTICLES
If you are like us at Milestone, you are always researching and innovating better ways to deliver your projects. Here we share articles featuring our project management insights.
DESIGNING A PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE
THAT WORKS: THE NEXT GENERATION PMO
“Houston, we have a problem.”
The need for a PMO within an organization is well documented. Unfortunately, PMOs struggle to survive.Thus the need for a next generation PMO for the organization’s success in program and project management.
TEAM PERFORMANCE NEEDS WORK? LEAD THE STRONG.
Your team is not performing as well as it should. Some members struggle to meet expectations. You spend as much time as you can coaching them.
But a common management trap is to spend most of your time with the weaker team members, leaving the strong to fend for themselves.
IF YOU THINK YOUR SCHEDULER IS A TECHNICIAN—THINK AGAIN!
In the construction industry, schedulers are often considered techs that build the schedule and enter data....The over-simplification of the scheduler’s role in the project and the resulting frustrations with the schedule become a project-sabotaging cycle.
AUTHOR VS TYPIST: A REFLECTION ON THE ROLE OF THE SCHEDULER IN COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION – SUMMARY
To call attention to the differences between the role of the professional scheduler, as it was once regarded, and the schedule data entry clerk, as the role has predominantly become, we use the analogy of the author versus the typist.
SCHEDULING REQUIRES MAINTENANCE
Have you ever used a map to navigate to your destination and discovered a new highway, road closure, or an entire subdivision not on your map? Did your GPS ever give you the wrong information? Misinformation causes unplanned mileage, time, and resources spent out of your vacation or business trip budget.
