Portfolio Management, Program and Project Management

Project Management Program Management Portfolio Management infographic

Project Management, Program Management, and Portfolio Management are very important terms in project scope management. Although they sound similar, they refer to different concepts. Many PMP aspirants don’t know the differences between them. Knowing these concepts and understanding their differences … Read more

Lean Six Sigma Principles: What the Training Slides Don’t Tell You

What is Lean Six Sigma ? Lean six sigma principles, methodology

Lean six sigma principles are one of those things that look straightforward on a training slide and turn out to be genuinely hard in practice. The principles themselves — define value from the customer’s perspective, map the value stream, create … Read more

Six Sigma in Project Management: Methodology, Tools and Where It Actually Fits

Six Sigma Methodology DMAIC DMADV Six Sigma Principles infographic

By 2014, GE’s stock had been roughly flat for a decade. The company that Jack Welch had built into a six sigma in project management flagship was struggling to grow its industrial businesses, losing ground in technology, and eventually facing … Read more

Stakeholder Identification: Who Most Project Teams Miss

Stakeholder Identification

Stakeholder identification has a specific, consistent failure mode that most guides don’t name directly: teams identify the stakeholders who are already visible and stop there. They find the sponsors, the clients, the obvious user groups, and the departments that raised … Read more