By Erin Palmer Project managers are tasked with the responsibility of keeping projects on task and delivered to a client within a specified time frame. The idea of keeping a project focused might seem like an easy job in theory, […]
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How to Create a Strong Team for a Project
By Erin Palmer Effective leaders know that building a strong team is the key to project success. Creating the best possible team requires smart hiring, proper delegation and clear communication. Here are some tips for putting together a successful team: […]
The Project Risk Weekly Launched
The Project Risk Weekly was launched to aggregate news and articles of interest concerning project risk management. The articles are searched automatically by a web crawler bot scanning a list of web sites featuring articles that match certain word criteria. […]
Cutting-Edge Project Management: What game theory and Poker can teach us
As Project Management continues to grow around the world and become increasingly commoditized, more specialization will be necessary in order to secure the best opportunities. One of these areas of specialization that will have increased demand in the future, I […]
10 Signs you are overusing Social Media in your Projects
Project managers are embracing social-media as never before. This trend will continue to grow in the future, as well as the potential to effect projects and organizations in a negative way. Therefore, we must quickly be able to recognize behaviors […]
The Social-Media Standard for Project Management
With the rise of social media in projects and organizations, there is a renewed need for some kind of guidance. This guide should be clear, concise and free of ambiguity. It should further the interests of the project while protecting […]
10 Reasons why you should give a Name and a Logo for your projects
I used to work for a company that had the unusual habit of giving a name and a logo for every project in the company’s portfolio. While this habit felt somewhat out of place at the beginning, I have to […]
Portfolio Optimization: taking control (part 3)
In the last installment of this article we have finally built a Monte Carlo simulation of possible portfolios. This process has enabled us to arrive at the Efficient Frontier, where the best portfolios are. We now go one step further, […]
Portfolio Optimization: taking control (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article we have collected the necessary information about our assets. We are mainly interested in two important parameters about every asset we consider: Average Return and Standard Deviation. The Average Return indicates what we can […]
Portfolio Optimization: taking control (Part 1)
Every once in a while we remember that we have some money invested. If you are part of this bunch, you probably want to make sure you are getting the most of your portfolio. Portfolio Optimization deals with the notion […]
