ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest. Can project management software facilitate this work?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 12, 2024

One way to make sure you’re supporting your team and project alike is with workforce planning. Then we’ll help you with the workforce planning process and explain the benefits of using workforce planning in your projects. Finally, we’ll see how project management software allows you to better manage your workforce.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Having many projects to manage in a portfolio can be daunting. You need to strategize and plan your resource allocation to ensure that every project has what it needs when it needs it. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. What Is Lean Portfolio Management? Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The project budget is developed during the planning phase of a project. It’s a document that captures the total costs required to complete a project over a specified timeframe. The more accurate your forecast for project costs, the more likely you’ll be able to deliver a successful project and make a profit.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Uncertainty is a certainty in projects. Risks will arise and threaten the successful delivery of your project. Using a risk breakdown structure (RBS) is how you prepare for the unexpected. That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. The Four Categories of Risk in a Project.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A marketing budget is how marketers know how much they can spend on their campaign. Understanding how to create a marketing budget is a key element of any marketing plan. We’ll explain how to do that and even throw in a free marketing budget template to help you get started. How to Create a Marketing Budget.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2023

Projects are planned and scheduled, but that’s just the preamble to the real work. Executing projects to meet deadlines without overspending the budget requires a project manager to understand resource availability. Resources are anything used to deliver project tasks including materials, equipment, labor and more.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

After they’re born, they develop, mature and eventually die. Those phases are market development, market introduction, market growth, maturity and market decline. The way a business approaches the various phases of a product’s development, from inception to decline, is what the product lifecycle is all about.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 6, 2023

PMO stands for project management office and it’s responsible for the project management standards in an organization. They all share similar responsibilities, but one deals with an organization’s project and the other deals with either a program, a group of related projects or a portfolio of projects.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The same can be said for the field of project management, where every constraint usually impacts another constraint, and every missed deadline puts the project off the delivery date by just a little bit longer. The waterfall methodology is a process where project activities are broken down into linear phases. Let’s take a look.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Knowing how to start a project is one of the most critical skills for any project manager. A large project (or a small one) starts with the small stuff and builds to something bigger and more complex. You need to get to work, but how you get to work is equally important. Learn more 1.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2023

IT projects are unique. IT teams plan hardware and software installations, upgrades and rollouts, and the tools they use are specific to working with infrastructure, information systems and computers. These IT project management templates are essential to get those jobs done properly. They can manage time, costs and resources.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s easy to find examples of high-profile projects that fail. The ones that hit the papers are often public sector projects because their audits and budgets are more open to scrutiny. The Millennium Dome hit financial difficulties and found itself needing an additional £179 million of National Lottery funding during 2000.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 24, 2022

For example, a simple manufacturing process differs from a complex one in that there’s only one flat bill of material needed for the entire project. For example, a simple manufacturing process differs from a complex one in that there’s only one flat bill of material needed for the entire project. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. Below, we’ll define what a prototype is, why it’s important to make a product prototype and explore how to make a prototype. Below, we’ll define what a prototype is, why it’s important to make a product prototype and explore how to make a prototype. Learn more.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 6, 2022

The economist Carlota Perez is famous for her perspective on technology ages and how they affect the world. So what are the implications for how we work? Of course, this list changes with the markets, but if you compare that to 2011, the list is 60% different. Compare to 2001 there is only one company that is on the list, Microsoft.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In this blog post I'll try to answer this question from different perspectives. In this blog post I'll try to answer this question from different perspectives. When people are first introduced to Scrum, often one of the questions they have is “ what do Scrum Masters *really* do all day? ”.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Whatever the objectives, process implementation is how they achieve these goals. Then, you’ll find out how project management software can help you reduce waste and save time. Business goals are achieved through a structured plan with clear guidelines for how the strategy will be executed.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 26, 2021

Before we can explain how to avoid scope creep in your projects, we need to understand what project scope and scope creep are. What Is the Scope of a Project? In simple terms, the project scope refers to all the work that is required to complete a project. What Is Scope Creep in Project Management?

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Scrum.org

JUNE 23, 2022

SDLC is an acronym that means either Software Delivery Life Cycle or Systems Development Life Cycle. If you don’t read past this section, I want you to at least understand these points: If you work with Digital Product Development, you’re likely to encounter this concept. What Is ‘SDLC’. And it is a lie. A fiction.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 30, 2022

A program director is an essential position that oversees projects. But how do you go about hiring a program director that will do what you want and fit into your organization? What you need is a program director job description, detailed and tailored to seamlessly integrate with what you do and how you do it.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. What Is Project Evaluation? Get started for free.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 12, 2023

There are many project management software products available on the market. Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) is a project, program and portfolio management software. The software integrates project and portfolio planning with teams, resourcing and risk management as well as scheduling.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The need for profitability is clear—how you get there is the tricky part. This is commonly called lean project management. What Is Lean Project Management? Lean project management focuses on delivering a manufacturing project with more value and less waste. What Are the Benefits of Lean Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2019

“How much detail do we need for our release plan?”. This is an important question to ask at the beginning of a software development project, or in the case of a long-standing product team, before the development of a major release of a system. Related: How to Fund a Software Development Project.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2022

Resource management is one of the most important aspects of project management. That’s because projects need resources and those resources must be managed. Project resources are all the raw materials, equipment and human resources necessary to execute project tasks. This quick guide will how you just how to do that.

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Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management! So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. How do People Consume Project Management Blogs?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Project managers are the point person in charge of a specific project or projects within an organization. We regularly feature project management resources to help train PMs to land jobs in the industry or develop better skills in their current role. What Does a Project Manager Do?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Construction projects will never get off the ground without financing. Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. How do you create a construction budget, anticipate the costs for a project and track them to make sure you’re not overspending?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 29, 2022

Construction project management covers a massive number of projects and there are all sorts of builds associated with it. There are big, complicated projects that require project management software to organize all of the moving parts. Commercial construction management, for example, is huge. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 29, 2022

Projects like anything that involves a lot of people working together need governance. The government runs a nation and project governance in the same fashion runs the project. Consider this your civics lessons in project management. What Is Project Governance? The Three Pillars of Project Governance.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Having an operational strategy helps companies meet those larger goals when planning their projects. We’ll get to that in a moment, as well as discuss the various types and how to create an operational plan. We’ll get to that in a moment, as well as discuss the various types and how to create an operational plan.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 17, 2023

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. We have read books and journal articles on various project management topics. What we ended up learning was about the present state-of-the-art of project management and what the future might look like.

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The IIL Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

By Ruchi Gupta, PMP ® , PgMP ® , PMI-ACP ® , PMI-RMP ® , SAFe, DASSM, SIP, Jira CBAP ® The accelerating rise of Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and others is rapidly reshaping the way project management operates. The Project Management Office (PMO) is no exception.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 10, 2022

A successful project starts with a successful estimate. To properly schedule the work to execute your project, you need to know the timeline, costs, scope, risk and more. All of these considerations are part of project estimation techniques. Estimation techniques are helpful for making decisions on the viability of your project.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 7, 2021

Join more us on July 6, 2021, for the Hands-on Agile #32: How to Win with Agile Resistant Teams—Scott Weiner. There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever looked at a bridge, building or structure of any kind and wondered, “how did they do that?” Construction is, of course, a project, one that tends to be long, complex and involves many different parties to deliver. Construction management is a professional service for project owners.

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