The Project Manager’s Cycle – Conduct Client Project Meeting

The occasion was the monthly project review meeting.  The PMO hosted these and all PMs were in attendance.  The typical agenda would have the PMO director select a half dozen projects, three flowing smoothly and three challenged projects, the PMs for each project would present the status, then the floor …

The Project Manager’s Cycle – Validate Task Status

“Carilyn, your status report says that you completed testing, but the task has four more hours on it?”  “Yes, I ran one more test case this morning,” replied Carilyn.  “But, as of Friday, when you did the status and the time entry, the task was still open?  It’ll finish today, …