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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

ProjectManager.com

Initiation Phase The initiation phase might be the most important of all five phases as it maps out the approval process for the project and sets everything in place to build. Programming and feasibility are where the planning team defines the project’s objectives and goals. The last step is the construction documentation.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. I love this question.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. We didn’t need it. Leadership.

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Government Lessons in People Over Process

Leading Answers

My first opportunity to create and run a large agile team did not start well. Having had good successes with small to medium sized agile teams I was keen to unleash the benefits on a bigger scale. I was working for IBM at the time and was able to persuade my account manager to pitch the approach on one of our government projects.

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SWOT analysis in project management: definition, instruction & example

Inloox

How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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The Product Development Strategy Guaranteed to Delight Your Customers

Leading Agile

The fallout of making a poor decision about the product you’re building can get costly from both a human and financial perspective, so it behooves us to figure out some way to get it right. We look bad by comparison, and it seems to be a sticking point in most of my calls. Are All Product Assumptions Good or Bad?