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How to Run Team Meetings: Tips & Best Practices

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Our site is an online hub for all things project management, with blogs, tutorial videos, and, of course, free project management templates for Excel and Word. Projects involve meetings at every step in the project life cycle. Here are a few to help run your next team meeting.

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How to Manage Your Project Pipeline With Software

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Projects have a beginning, middle and end. That’s called the project life cycle. When you’re a project management office (PMO) or program or portfolio manager, you’re going to have to deal with multiple projects in various stages of the project pipeline. What is a project pipeline?

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How to Write a Business Case (Template Included)

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The need for a business case is that it collects the financial appraisal, proposal, strategy and marketing plan in one document and offers a full look at how the project will benefit the organization. Once your business case is approved by the project stakeholders, you can begin the project planning phase.

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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

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Then we’ll explain the difference between the construction phases and the project life cycle. To help you manage your construction projects better, we’ll even add a few free templates. Construction projects are carefully planned. In some cases, however, the life cycle of construction phases can overlap.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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Now that we’ve determined what a project is, we can define project management as a discipline. What Is Project Management? Project management is a discipline that consists in using project management methodologies, tools and techniques to manage the project life cycle, which is a set of stages that are common to every project.

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How to Make a Quality Management Plan

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Quality might be the unsung hero of project management, and quality management is the methodology to keep your project delivering at the highest level. The quality management plan is part of any successful project. It lays out a process to keep tabs on the quality of your service or product throughout the project life cycle.

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How to Create a Project Execution Plan (PEP) – Free Template Included

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That should be obvious from the name, but it also addresses the project scheduling, monitoring and controlling needed to bring the project deliverables. The document outlines all parts of the project execution and shows how to manage them. How to Create a Project Execution Plan. Kickoff Meeting.

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