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Why All Entrepreneurs Should Have Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Members of the project team operate to standard project management process steps, and within a system with defined parameters, language roles and responsibilities, with clear scope, budget, and timescales. “In But you can’t be a great leader unless you can communicate with people.

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Professionalise Project Management

The Lazy Project Manager

Tailwind Project Solutions was formed in 2014 to provide a bespoke approach to project leadership development. In the subsequent blogs we will cover five test points to apply against these 5 elements before moving on to describe five simple steps to move forward with all of the above in a controlled manner.

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When complacency creeps in—A story by Holly Davis

Resource Guru

When I dug deeper, he told me the budget wasn’t realistic and he didn’t have confidence in the approach. Let me know how you’d like to run this project and come to me with a revised budget. This wasn’t the type of conversation where you’re asking the client for a “bit of extra budget” for 1-2 sprints. I heard him.

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

File sharing, time tracking, email integration, Gantt Charts, and budget management are the top five most used and requested features in project management software. PMOs are growing in both size (by budget and staff) and importance. In 2016, the average PMO accounted for nearly 5% of the project budget and had a staff size of 9.

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Know the value of your change

The Lazy Project Manager

Ability to evaluate and judge – such is the essence of project leadership and decision making. When it comes to financial accountability, it seems—at least anecdotally—that projects often go over budget, deliver late, and deliver less than was expected. and there are absolutely no significant consequences at sponsor level.

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Scheduling and Cost Control in a Complex Environment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

Professor Flyvbjerg’s evidence showed that out of 12,000 major projects studied globally, fewer than half were on budget, fewer than 8% also on schedule, and only 0.5% As expected, it has a 100% record in delivery on schedule, but no Olympic Games has ever met the original budget (mean cost over-run 172%).

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Embracing an Innovative Mindset

Tony Adams

Digital disruption is challenging traditional business models and creating new market opportunities, with increasing connectivity, IT capabilities and commodification of Big Data reshaping the customer experience (Deloitte, 2014). Yet, they consistently fail to deliver. Globally, companies waste approximately 9.7%