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Integrated Change Management Should Change the Way You Manage Your Projects

Integrated Change Management Should Change the Way You Manage Your Projects

Integrated change control procedures are made to allow for consistent change control from project to project. This allows for the same change control protocols to created once, and used between projects. Change control procedures should be used in every project because they provide a constant method of change metrics as well as reduce the time [...]

[ More ] 25th Mar, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog, Featured

Types of Project Estimates

There are a few different ways to estimate in projects but a general rule of thumb is to use the most accurate method available. There’s the rough order of magnitude, top down, budget/engineering. Rough Order of Magnitude This type of estimate is of a top level conceptual nature. It is generally used when not many [...]

[ More ] 11th Mar, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog

Common Cost Categories in Project Cost Estimation

Accurately estimating future costs of a project is crucial in the project planning phase because it helps accurately predict a project’s benefit. In my experience there are three major common cost categories: Fixed Costs Variable Costs Operating and Maintenance Costs Fixed Costs Fixed costs are costs that do not vary with the output of production. [...]

[ More ] 11th Mar, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog

Don't Set it and Forget It: Update Your Project Schedules Throughout Your Projects

While reading Project Scheduling and Cost Control, by James Taylor, one thing that stuck out for me was how it is critical to update a project’s schedule no matter what type of network diagram or chart you decide to employ. It never really struck me as an issue because I haven’t worked on “huge” time [...]

[ More ] 3rd Mar, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog
Let Me Break it Down for You: Work Breakdown Structures

Let Me Break it Down for You: Work Breakdown Structures

Work breakdown structures are extremely useful way to simplify complex tasks that need to be accomplished in a project by their individual components. They can also be combined with scheduling data to generate a Gantt chart (the end result is something similar to the Microsoft Project interface). The United States Department of Energy’s official definition [...]

[ More ] 3rd Mar, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog, Featured
Green Tech: A Hard Road to Hoe

Green Tech: A Hard Road to Hoe

Fred Engel is a technology entrepreneur that has sold a business and taken another public. He’s currently starting a new green technology venture that centers itself around reclaiming lost energy efficiencies in commercial building’s HVAC systems. His systems analyze feedback from the building automation systems using software to help building owners achieve cost savings through reduced [...]

[ More ] 23rd Feb, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog
Personal Experience with Project Scope Statements

Personal Experience with Project Scope Statements

I used to work at MD Anderson Cancer Center where I developed web applications. Part of my job was to directly interface with customers and take their requirements and develop them into finished products. Our team of developers each had their own projects to work on, and could decide if they wanted to interface with [...]

[ More ] 22nd Feb, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog
Planning Successful Projects: Defining Project Scope

Planning Successful Projects: Defining Project Scope

A scope statement is a document that details a project’s deliverables and describes it’s major objectives (Wikipedia). This document is essentially a high-level overview of what the entire project will encompass (including what it will not cover). In order to develop a project scope document, certain key pieces of information need to be discovered. These [...]

[ More ] 22nd Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog, Featured
Marketing in the Biotech Industry: A Pill a Day Brings the Dollars Your Way

Marketing in the Biotech Industry: A Pill a Day Brings the Dollars Your Way

The biotech industry is notoriously hard to fund a startup when you have little to no proven successes. Capital is hard to come by when it may take $1B over 15 years before the investors start to see any returns if the product is approved for the intended use. Here we will examine a hypothetic [...]

[ More ] 19th Feb, 2010 | No Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog, Featured
Case Study Analysis: UndergroundHipHop.com, Financing, Growth, and the Future

Case Study Analysis: UndergroundHipHop.com, Financing, Growth, and the Future

I recently read a case study for a small and growing business called UndergroundHipHop.com I obtained from Ivey Publishing. UndergroundHipHop.com is a company started by a college undergrad student in his dorm room. The company started out as a project of passion that lead to a large online community that all had interests in underground hip hop [...]

[ More ] 18th Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in (rj)eSchool, Blog, Featured

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