Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs Ted Klastorin
Publisher: Wiley

Dipres is the best placed in terms of enforcement, with its location within the Ministry of Finance and control of an independent budget ; and Colombia's Sinergia promotes a culture of utilization of evaluations as a project management tool. Questions the traditional project management trade offs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-cohen/rethinking-project-manage_b_832103.html. MBA Help - Project Management - Time-Cost Trade-offs - As discussed above, most projects and tasks will have a trade off relationship between the time taken to complete a task and the cost of said task. This means changing priorities as the project moves on and more is discovered. The customer needs in a highly usable form. There are always trade-offs when prioritizing development tasks, but the gap in understanding between the clients and the contractors can lead to problems if not managed proactively. Project Management Institute Introduces PMI Standards Benchmark and PMI Standards Navigator. In every organisation that I have worked in there has never been any argument that additional capacity can help better delivery of projects. Online tools to support project management introduced: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110307005322/en/Project-Management-Institute-Introduces-PMI-Standards-Benchmark%E2%84%A2. In "The Five Variables of Project Management," Sam Newman offers five things that affect the success of a project, including scope, time, people, process, and risk management. This is a slightly refined view of the traditional . Independent software development companies and contractors have more responsibility than employees typically do in managing customer expectations and in helping them prioritize development. But teams that care about quality (and I include my frequent role as PM here) can make responsible tradeoffs to balance time, scope and resoures, while still delivering quality in every line of code.