The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, it looks at the impact and application of the Buyer Value Equation framework for developing strategy and managing projects. The “Buyer Value Equation” is a concept used in marketing and business strategy to quantify the value proposition that a product or service offers to potential buyers.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. In a preconstruction meeting, project exceptions are defined, roles are clarified and risk mitigation strategies are discussed. What Is a Preconstruction Meeting?

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Planio

MARCH 28, 2022

Does ‘closing’ a project mean it’s a success? Closing projects doesn’t have to be complicated. In this guide, we’ll run through a simple process that can guide you as you close out projects, learn from your experiences, and move onto the next one. However, there are risks to ignoring it or doing a ‘soft close’.

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 13, 2023

Organizational strategy – What is the current direction for the organization? What is its vision, strategy, or objectives? Benefits – Identify benefits with an order of magnitude estimate for each benefit. What is the history, and how did it get here? What is likely to evolve in the near, medium, and longer term?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

Executives will appreciate that bottom-up budgeting leads to more accurate estimates throughout the organization. Executives still have the final word on the budget so they can have a centralized strategy. For example, while you might get more accurate estimates, you’ll find that you’re spending more.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

In one of my earlier articles, The Twins–Communications and Stakeholder Management , I outlined how deeply and closely these two knowledge areas of the PMBOK® guide interact with each other. While other KAs can possibly interact with the twins like siblings in a family, no other area comes as close to the twins as Resource Management.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The project owner is a leader who works with the project manager closely to drive the project to a successful conclusion. That relationship is so close that in some projects, the project owner is the project manager. Project Owner vs. Project Manager The project owner and the project manager are closely intertwined in the project.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Organizations tend to do strategy top down and they tend to do that uninformed about organizational capacity and dependencies. Importantly, we have to be able to do that without redirecting the whole org to create an estimate. The estimate is only half the equation, and the approach is disruptive to the flow of current work.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Procurement management refers to all the actions and strategies related to the cycle of identifying, evaluating and selecting suppliers of production inputs. ProjectManager is ideal to keep track of your production plans so you can better estimate when you’ll need to purchase equipment, materials, parts or anything needed for your projects.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Top-down strategy involves the management of a project, i.e. the project manager having complete control over the delegation of tasks and the setting of the project schedule and deadlines. Five Things to Know About the Bottom-Up Strategy. Fosters inclusive task planning. Affords unique insights. Allows you to maximize potential.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. Related: Time Management Strategies & Tools. With the tasks now sequenced, the resources required for each must be estimated and assigned.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Planning involves breaking down the work into manageable tasks, estimating resource requirements, and creating schedules and budgets.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project planning is the second stage in project management, after initiation and before execution, monitoring and controlling and closing. Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. Each task will have a duration with its own start date and end date.

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Planio

MAY 20, 2024

This doesn’t just come from good organization but from knowing how to estimate work before timelines are committed. To avoid poor estimating, admin mistakes, and inflated supplier quotes, we’d recommend hiring a project manager who knows their stuff. You’re always dealing with “scope creep”. You have no visibility of budgets.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 19, 2024

Resistance to change Not everyone embraces new time-tracking tools and strategies. Cost implication Small companies and start-ups, in particular, must keep a close eye on their bottom lines. Only two tasks are non-billable: a handoff and some emails regarding content strategy. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Proofhub

MAY 5, 2021

The long answer: Relating well with subordinates and leading them to success requires you to develop smart supervising strategies ; to make genuine efforts every day to improve your ability to lead people. What’s more, you are in luck because, in this article, we will help you design smart strategies for different supervisory challenges.

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Kiron Bondale

AUGUST 1, 2021

Cost estimation and budgeting has followed a typical top-down/bottom-up approach. For example, an analogous estimate was determined for renovations and upgrades based on our past experience with our previous two houses. Budgeting and tracking has been done within the same MS Excel workbook as is used for scope planning.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.) effectively and efficiently. Also known as continuous process improvement.

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Scoro

MAY 16, 2024

Revenue forecasting ensures that your team is on track to hit targets and profit margins while allowing you to change strategies or tactics to improve revenue and profit targets in the future. Scoro “Detailed” work report compares the estimated time for each project against the actual time your team spent working on it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 22, 2021

Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. The project manager estimates the resource requirement and creates open positions that get fulfilled by the resource manager. Estimate activity resources: Determine resources needed for carrying out project activities.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2021

To determine whether the team could meet its goal, it created Product Backlog items, or to-do items, representing what was known about the work and then used the complementary practice of points estimation. The system allowed the team to estimate the total points of work required to deliver the new business requirements. Lean Thinking.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

If you are seeking to measure the performance of a Scrum team, measure based on outcomes (like profit, customer satisfaction, product quality), not based on outputs (such as velocity or number of Product Backlog items closed per Sprint.) Velocity is frequently referred to as a measure of how many points the team closes in a given sprint. .

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Wrike

APRIL 5, 2024

With these challenges in mind, in this guide, we share five strategies for effective project coordination to keep budgets on track, projects within scope, and your teams onside. That’s why we want to provide some more robust strategies for you to deploy, so you can tackle the specific challenges you’ll face in your project coordinator role.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For the software machines the principles of closed loop control in the presence of noise and changing conditions are the same ‒ https://goo.gl/cUcXNj. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Proofhub

MARCH 31, 2021

The long answer: Relating well with subordinates and leading them to success requires you to develop smart supervising strategies ; to make genuine efforts every day to improve your ability to lead people. What’s more, you are in luck because, in this article, we will help you design smart strategies for different supervisory challenges.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Projects are subsets of workplaces and since project management is, for the most part, an activity that involves working very closely with others, the impact of a bully in a project is potentially lethal to project success. Coping strategies for dealing with workplace bullying. Shane Cowishlaw, writing on Stuff.co.nz Is it fair, safe?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 20, 2023

Problem-solving involves being able to diagnose the causes of a problem , create strategies to solve it, choose the best course of action and implement solutions. Self Esteem Self-esteem is tightly closed to emotional intelligence. Always be open to new ideas and be able to assess risk and estimate potential benefits.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 16, 2020

Finally, once the procurement is done, the contracts must be closed properly. Informs Strategy. Without a procurement management plan there can be no procurement strategy and without a strategy there can be no plan. Related: Cost Estimation for Projects. Why Do You Need a Procurement Management Plan? Define Costs.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Another project is closing and releasing a development resource that could greatly help get your project back on schedule. Quantitative analysis : Calculate the potential benefit by multiplying the probability times the estimated value. The strategies for opportunities include: Exploit.

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PM Basics

MARCH 5, 2019

How to select a Risk Response Strategy? Definition of Risk Response Strategies. Here is what you need to know: Risk Response Strategy or Risk Response Plan is not something from an enterprise world. (By Waiting for a risk to happen and only then mitigating the negative impact is a bad strategy. Sounds complicated.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Product Owner needs to work closely with the Scrum Team members, particularly with the Scrum Master. Close cooperation with customer care and sales has proven to be particularly relevant for product success. Product Owner Theses: Product Backlog, Refinement, Work Items, Forecasts, and Estimations.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Companies focus their energies on ways to predict outcomes in order to help them set successful long-term strategies. It goes without saying that the more accurate business forecasting is, the more effective the strategies and project plans that stem from the process. One thing is constant, all industries rely on business forecasting.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The process of capital budgeting helps managers create a budget for the project’s costs, estimate a timeline for the project’s return on investment and decide if the potential value of that project is worth the capital investment. Businesses don’t want to lose money or spend time on a lost leader. Also, ask your employees for suggestions.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Risk probability: You’ll need to estimate the likelihood of each risk and assign a qualitative or quantitative value. Finally, when the project risk is resolved, you can close it. Estimate Risk Impact. Include everything that the risk can influence, so you can develop a strong strategy to deal with it. Resolve the Risks.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We determined what needed to be done to put in place instant fixes so that the website code would work and how much time a complete re-write of the website code would take – which we estimated would be all night long.”. That way we could devise a strategy to fix it. What’s the difference between a workshop and an ‘ordinary’ meeting?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Rothman is the author of 14 books, nine of which are on project management topics, including: Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate & Deliver, Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization and Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The sharp project manager is going to understand that while risk is inevitable, the ability to forecast it and prepare a strategy to correct whatever wrongs may occur during the project is part of what planning for a project is. You also have a way to say when the risk is no longer a risk; that is you can close it.

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