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Source: Articles by Dick Billows of 4PM

Multiple Project Fantasy Land
Projects multiply like weeds in an organization, they devour the time of technical staff and line supervisors leaving little time for people's "real jobs." Yet despite a project failure rate that can inch past 70%, some executives and project managers continue to live in a fantasy land. Let's look at the fantasies and then the survival techniques you should use in a project dense organization.

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Risk Management
Makes the case for limited risk management on even small projects using streamlined processes with little or no cost and just an hour of effort.

Work Breakdown Structure
The WBS is not a to list. It's designed and is the backbone of your schedule for tracking, cost control and the platform from which you manage your project team.

Project Estimating
Straightforward talk about the accuracy of time and cost estimates and suggestions of estimating techniques to use in various situations.

Achievements vs. Activities
You can try to manage your project team with activities or spend a bit more time and assign accountability for measured end results. The latter give you a more motivated team and better control.

Project Tradeoffs
Trade-offs are the language used by successful project managers. They never say no to an executive, they just quantify the impact of what the executive wants on cost and duration.

Project Office Types
Describes the three types of project offices and the role they can play in an organization.