Colin Barnes
Total live articles: 4
Questions: 0
Answers: 3
Specialties
Online collaboration, emerging web technologies, Company & Project Management, SME’s and Start-ups, Company Director (20 Years +), Sales Management, Marketing, IT Development and Application, PRINCE2.
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Task Management usually becomes a dilemma at some point for every business, or to be more precise for every person. Personal task management works hand-in-hand with personal organisation and time management. Let's face it some people are just good at organising their own personal time, space and tasks.
No matter how hard we try to explain how documents stored in the cloud can be accessed from anywhere, by anyone who has the right permissions, the blank looks we get make you wonder if it would actually be easier to explain to somebody from the Victorian era that one day video tape recorders would be considered a pretty cool idea.
I need find a business consultant that can help me create a presentation for a proposed IT project. The project includes both hardware and software. Any ideas for how I can search for a consultant?
What are the roles and responsibilities of a project manager ?
What are the major elements of project management ?
According to PRINCE2 ( and established and respected project management methodology) the "Business Case" is the most essential element. that is to say the business must have a reason for implementing the project and, furthermore that business case or reason must be continuously monitored throughout the project cycle.
This is a really essential element, because for example if a project timescales or costs become excessive, then the business case or reason for doing the project may actually disappear and the best course
Project management itself is an interesting term. Does the all encompassing term ‘project management' include the more specific activities of ‘project planning' which, would by definition involve allocating resources to tasks, probably linking them to milestones and invariably producing calendars, schedules and most likely Gant Charts.
Or is that a ridiculous question to ask? How can we question the vitality of the world's largest software company when it is still hugely profitable and surely as dominant as ever? The first point to make is that we've been here before in the early ‘80s (and the author is old enough to have firsthand experience of those days), IBM dominated the computer world.
