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Projects are run by people for people. Project management software does not run a project. It reports on project status, provides tracking against key metrics, and generates status reports or visual indicators.

Learn how you can ensure the success of your projects. In this video, Project Management Professional and True North PMP Consulting President Richard Broo explains the importance of process discipline in facilitating an effective project management.

Welcome to another edition of Best Practices in Project Management. Today, I’d like to briefly talk to you about a tool that I encourage all project managers to use, and that’s called an assumption and constraints register or log. And you use this to record all of the key decisions that were made for your project, and the assumptions and constraints that drove that key decision.

Today, I’d like to talk about business needs assessment, as it relates to a business case. A business needs assessment is usually done well before our project is approved to begin to determine if the project is even worth undertaking and to make sure that the organization is putting its best foot forward to choose that particular project or a particular project over others. 

Today I’d like to talk with you about auditing a project or a project management process. Now, every company has projects and some degree of a project management process, but it does make sense from time to time to audit both a project and a project management process to make sure that you are eliminating costs waste in time at both of those.