Project management used to be well-characterized as managing timelines to complete fully-specified goals within budget. Sometimes this characterization is still adequate when we conduct maintenance or standardized projects. On the other hand, recognizing that projects are the main vehicle for innovating and implementing strategy in business today has led to some new thinking at the Emory Goizueta Business School.

Project Management Software has been proliferating. Almost all do GANTT charts and some form of Work Breakdown Structure (which they may reference as PERT charts). But, most lack resource leveling and advanced tools for task reporting and status tracking as well as leader intervention guidance and targeting. In this space, I am building a list of available software packages and itemizing their features with an eye to a comprehensive database for evaluation.

Project Management requires careful planning of scope, schedule, and budget. This triple constraint guides management and allocation of resources. With modern techniques, we can speed up processes and jobs that used to take much longer.



So, how long do you think it might take to build a regular, 3 bedroom, 2 bath house?

Thank you for taking the Project Management General Survey.

This is just a quick note to post an interesting video I found on CNET today with updated information on developing video conferencing technologies.
Video on CNET.

The UN has taken an interest in understanding corporate social responsibilty and how businesses help and hinder the betterment of the human condition. Recently, they released a report examining these issues available at this site.

I will be posting more here as I continue to move content to this online site. Here is an interesting tele-opthamology system. Most telemedicine has been in radiology or other 2-dimensionally capturable practices. Rural provision is improving partly due to ability to provide care through technology.

My dissertation research and prior work centers heavily on project-based work. I did not intend to study project management originally. It simply emerged that work life is getting organized around projects, particularly high tech work and strategic work - my areas of consulting and study. As a result, I have become a project management researcher. One basic project management resource everyone should know is the Project Management Institute.

This is an on-going project spurred by my own global background and experiences.  More than 60% of all office work is now computer-mediated (source: IDC).  Much work is conducted virtually in distributed group settings spread across the world and involving multiple organizational and national cultures.  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a pivotal role in enabling these work settings, settings characterizing the majority of modern work.