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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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Why All Entrepreneurs Should Have Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Whether it’s developing a new product or securing investment, where the process involves a series of steps, it should be managed like any other project. The foundation level was fairly straightforward, there’s a lot to learn and an exam, but if you study hard it’s not too bad.”.

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When complacency creeps in—A story by Holly Davis

Resource Guru

I was working with a competent Lead Developer on one of our biggest clients delivering a rebuild for a platform that we’d been working on for 10+ years. During that time, the Techncial Director and Lead Developer had both moved on. So, some team changes! Download your free copy here. That’s just agency world, right? I heard him.

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Why Toggl Chose ROWE Over 40 Hour Workweeks

Teamweek

At Toggl, we’ve been living and touting the benefits of working from anywhere since 2014. Not just that, but we’ve also made a big bet on the future of remote work by creating tools that enable distributed teams to be more productive and successful. The only condition is that you can’t slow down other team members who rely on you.

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Industry, Product, and Technical Knowledge: What Makes a Project Manager an Expert?

Epicflow Blog

As stated in PMI’s Pulse of the Profession® (2014) , inadequate project requirements are the cause of project failure in 37% of organizations. Besides, it will make you better understand the project’s weaknesses and correct them correspondingly. The project manager’s work involves a lot of communication with the team.

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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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Agency utilization rate: 9 steps to increasing billable time

Resource Guru

The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money. A high utilization rate means your team is focused and efficient. Billable hours: These are the hours your team spends on client projects. Billable hours directly contribute to revenue.