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How to Turn a Project Around

MPUG

One of the hardest things to do when you are deep into managing a project is to see precisely when it is going off the rails. Meaning, you are so busy working the project day-to-day that it could start to have significant issues, and you won’t notice. Let’s spend some time now and look at a simple 3-step process to recover a project.

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Why you should schedule around people, not tasks

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management has wrought much change. From plotting Gantt charts by hand to the modern day explosion of project management software solutions, everything is different – including the nature of work itself. Then all is quiet until the boss approaches her desk with yet another project. To illustrate, Roger L.

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Project Turnaround: How to Turn around a Failing Project | Video

Online PM Courses

No one wants a failing project on their hands. So, here are the five project turnaround steps to rescue a failing project. The post Project Turnaround: How to Turn around a Failing Project | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. But it happens.

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How to Recover A Troubled Program

Rebel’s Guide to PM

His ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’ webinar covers 5 steps for project recovery. The wrong issue is how you can catch up and finish on time. The right issue is how do you finish at all and gain something realistic benefit without ending up with a failed project. You need to regain control.

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How to facilitate a project meeting

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers need to be good at facilitation because we run a lot of meetings and take part in a lot of discussions. A lot of facilitation happens during project initiation. But you also want to be able to draw on your facilitation skills throughout the life of your project. Running a meeting is different to facilitating it.

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10 Simple Ways to Prepare a Handover at work (with email templates)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Once upon a time I used to try to plan my projects around dates when I knew I was going to be in the office. My colleagues joked that I planned the birth date of my first child around a major transformation project go live date (I didn’t). In this article, we’ll look at how to plan and execute a handover to a colleague.

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3 Things that stop you making the right decision

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers want to make the best decisions for themselves, the project, and the project team. In order to do so, project managers must be aware of biases. Project managers make decisions all the time, by the hour, minute, or even second. Projects are not wars, but we can learn from Aurelius.