How to Calculate Critical Path
This is the second of two videos we have for critical path. This video provides an overview of how to calculate critical path by hand. This...
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Free Project Management Videos from Andy Kaufman, PMP
In this series, international speaker and author Andy Kaufman, PMP shares lessons to help you radically improve your ability to deliver projects. Andy is the Host of The People and Projects...
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20 of 24 episodesCritical Path Overview
This is the first of two videos we have for critical path. This video provides an overview of critical path, including some practical applic...
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Work Breakdown Structure: Demonstration
Sometimes it’s easier to understand how to facilitate a WBS exercise if you can see one in action. In this video, Andy Kaufman shows y...
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Activity Sequencing: Demonstration
The guys at the Manager Tools podcast talk about Horstman’s Law of Project Management, which is “Who Does What By When̶...
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Leading Cause of Project Failure: Denial of Risk
Risk. It can be a four-letter word in some organizations! Bring up a risk and you could be viewed as not being a team player or as being neg...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Unrealistic Timeframes
Ever been given a timeframe that seems impossible to hit? If you’ve managed projects for any length of time, you know what I mean. You...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Inappropriate Experience
Hey, I’m pretty good at the game “Flight Simulator” on the computer! Want to hop on a real flight with me at the stick? I&...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Continual & Unregulated Change
We can reasonably argue that continual change is not a problem with projects. It is, of course, but it’s not worth complaining about b...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: No Clear Objectives
Think of the last project that you delivered…. How do you know whether or not it was considered to be a success? I get to ask that que...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Poor Project Management
How would you describe your project management culture? I have the privilege of intersecting with hundreds of organizations and many effecti...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Difficulty Defining Work in Detail
From 30,000 feet, every project is pretty easy! Same with projects. From a high-level it can be easy to think, “Hey, how tough can thi...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Insufficient Involvement
I’m amazed at what you can get away with if you manage expectations. You can deliver late. You can over-spend. But only if you manage...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Lack of Formal Methodology
Pop quiz for you and your team: How would you describe your project management methodology? I’ve been to many organizations where, if...
Leading Cause of Project Failure: Lack of Executive Support
One of the single most important indicators of whether you will deliver successfully or not comes down to the support you’re getting f...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: The Triple Constraint
As we discussed in the video on Continual and Unregulated Change, it’s not a matter of if change will occur on your project–it&#...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Develop a Project Charter
A basic practice that has proven to help project success is to develop a Project Charter. You’ve heard that, right? But who likes to c...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Identify All Stakeholders
In previous videos we’ve talked about the importance of managing stakeholder expectations. It’s critical. The first key to manag...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Identify Assumptions
Every project has assumptions–things we don’t know whether they are true, real, or certain. Yet we often don’t sufficientl...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Define Success
In a previous video we discussed how unclear objectives lead to project failure. So, how do we go about creating measurable objectives? In t...
Improving Your Ability to Deliver: Create a Work Breakdown Structure
Create a WBS? Can anything with the letters “BS” be a good idea? From the standpoint of the Project Management Institute (PMI),...