Project Bliss

MARCH 19, 2019

This is a guest article by Elizabeth Harrin from GirlsGuideToPM.com. You’ve pulled together the key subject matter experts who can help get the project over this hurdle. And the project can carry on. This is particularly the case with complex processes or projects with lots of moving parts and many stakeholders.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 28, 2020

A project never exists in a vacuum. A project is executed by a team within an organization that has some sort of a project management framework established to enable the process. This framework, whether deliberately designed or not, acts as a loose guide for how the project should function for teams across multiple channels.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Introduction to Project Health Checks Projects seem to progress quickly until they are about 60-70% complete. Then, perhaps without any warning, the truth comes out and we discover that the project is in trouble. Most projects seem to focus heavily on just two metrics: time and cost. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D.

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Inloox

JUNE 10, 2021

As the field of project management becomes more complex and our tasks more demanding, we may lose sight of basic principles. By following these 8 simple guiding principles, it is possible to improve project performance, provide more value to the organization, and hopefully make the project manager 's job a little easier.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a meeting after the project has concluded, during which successes and failures are discussed with the project team. It’s a great way to learn from your mistakes and repeat those actions that worked as planned. Yes, it’s very helpful in setting up your next project to stay on track. What Is a Premortem?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Project managers sing this sad song, but don’t expect the chorus to join in. Keeping to the project’s schedule is one of the three prongs of the triple constraint. Time rules all projects. It’s of paramount importance to everyone involved, from stakeholders to team members. They run from simple to the complex.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2019

Now, get out there and change the world— one project at a time! One learned from their mistakes, and the greatest lesson was that there was always another day to fight on. Branson’s Virgin has proven that from record labels to airlines, where there is a will there is a way. The competition will overtake you.

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Binfire

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As the title of this post suggests, this article is all about project management questions and answers to those questions. If you ever were afraid to ask project management questions, now is your turn. This post is especially useful for new project managers. Project Management Questions & Answers. Why is that?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This time last year I reviewed the trends in social and collaborative technology in the project management space: some of my predictions had come to nothing and it was interesting to look backward and hold myself accountable for what I said would happen. We need this because project work is huge and complicated. Big Data.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2018

When you’re managing a project, the Triple Constraint is always foremost in your head. How can you control the scope, schedule and cost of the project? But there is a fourth concern that is just as important and is sometimes forgotten in the maelstrom of project management, and that is quality. Customer Satisfaction.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Project management can appear very formal to an outsider. That’s because project management maps out a specific, seemingly inflexible, process for initiating, monitoring and closing a project, all according to an established methodology. A pothole for projects is not following the plan you made to complete the project.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 21, 2020

You got the project delivered on time and within budget, but your stakeholder deems the project a failure. Project managers can get so wrapped up in the minutia of scheduling, keeping resources moving and monitoring progress that they can forget about the most important aspect of the job. What Is a Quality Management Plan?

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Resource Guru

MARCH 15, 2023

This week, Digital PM Summit founder, podcaster, and consultant, Brett Harned talks about effort vs scope, and why it’s crucial to get input from the right person. You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager. As a project manager, I’d never get in the way of a good idea.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2019

Good cost estimation is essential for keeping a project under budget. Many costs can appear over the life cycle of a project, and an accurate estimation method can be the difference between a successful plan and a failed one. Projects bring risks, and risks bring unexpected costs. Project Cost Estimation Techniques.

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The IIL Blog

MAY 24, 2023

In an Agile environment, practitioners learn to design, fail fast, iterate, and deploy. We’ll look briefly at a few of the areas from The Grit Factor that have particular relevance to teams in the world of Agile. As both art and science, there is much to learn and practice– The Grit Factor goes into this in more depth.

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Project Accelerator News

JANUARY 25, 2024

A project management team’s new hire asked her onboarding supervisor a brilliant question – Why? In her last job, length and number of sprints would be decided at a goal setting meeting, a twelve-week scrum project could have 15–20 Scrum sprints, which could be as short as a handful of days and as long as a month. I’m not alone!

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TrustRadius Project Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For a quick refresher on the difference between agile and waterfall, or to simply learn more about each, click the link below: Click here to read about Agile Versus Waterfall. Digital.ai, 2022) Agile development exploded in 2021, growing from 37% to 86% of teams in the software industry. Essential Agile Statistics for 2022 and Beyond.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? Amongst them I count my virtual mentors and project delivery professionals who inspire me. I’m sure you do. Get the ebook!

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

Finally, without a coherent management plan, all operational excellence efforts are doomed to fail. For help, use lessons learned from debriefing after tasks, and develop objectives for team members that align with the overall goals. It’s a project, and like any project, it needs the right tool.

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Resource Guru

MARCH 31, 2023

You’ve created a meticulous project plan. You’ve got a project dream team behind you. Project execution is perhaps the most difficult stage of the project life cycle. And it’s where you’ll discover whether you can react and adapt as a team to push the project forward and over the finish line.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 31, 2022

Project portfolio management (PPM) is much more complex than project management. Well, a project manager may be responsible for one project in the company. Whereas a project portfolio manager needs to keep an eye on all projects across the organization’s portfolio.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 26, 2018

What has Zen got to do with the art of Project Management? But I do know how to manage a project, and I have a fair idea of some of the main principles of Zen. It demands that we try to understand the meaning of our lives directly, from our experiences. This leads me to two specific experiences I had as a project manager.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

To help plan for uncertain times and minimize workplace uncertainty, you need to understand your employees’ needs and what they value from their jobs. Here are some tips to help set your employees up for success: Be open-minded about what kinds of learning opportunities you offer. Let’s dive in.

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Leading Answers

JULY 10, 2020

How does work from home impact our use of agile approaches? Yes, of course we can, and in many ways, now we need to be more agile than ever as we try new approaches, learn and adapt how we work. However, most agile teams already had some remote workers before work-from-home instructions. The answer is with video.

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Epicflow Blog

MAY 14, 2019

We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. We’ve also received lots of great ideas on how to overcome the causes of project failure. Involve Your Stakeholders.

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Wrike

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Photo by Linkedin Sales Solution on Unsplash The Premortem Approach to Problem-Solving The premortem approach is a specific technique within predictive problem-solving that allows organizations to simulate the failure of a project or initiative. This step is crucial as it sets the stage for the subsequent brainstorming session.

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Proofhub

APRIL 13, 2021

As the working world moves from the office to home, many businesses are finding they have little choice but to become more flexible in their approach. Instead, you can learn to avoid chaos. By borrowing lessons from those that have been there and done it. And we can learn a lot from them.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 19, 2018

For many of us, reading project reports can be a tedious part of the project management process. Common complications occur when reports aren’t targeted on the project’s planned outcomes, and they fail to consider what the project manager, executive or stakeholder needs to gain from reading the report.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Emails go from a torrent to a trickle. Because project management is such a multifaceted role that works with many different stakeholders, we’ve included both PM and non-PM resources. Because project management is such a multifaceted role that works with many different stakeholders, we’ve included both PM and non-PM resources.

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Wrike

MAY 14, 2023

Carrying out a thorough post-mortem analysis after completing a project is an essential component of successful project management. Post-mortems provide valuable insights into project performance, helping teams identify areas that need improvement, acknowledge accomplishments, and learn from mistakes.

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Proofhub

MAY 5, 2021

Being a business owner, a project manager , or a department head is both rewarding and challenging. No matter how many managerial courses you take or how many supervisory tools you utilize, leading people and supervising top-level projects will always present new challenges every morning. Learn to observe first before talking.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Engagement Manager, Financial Services and Project Management Consultant. On 1 November 2018, thousands of people gathered online for International Project Management Day 2018 : Project, Program, and Portfolio Management in an Age of Digital Disruption , an online learning and knowledge sharing event organized by IIL.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 2, 2019

Others are always instrumental in any major project. They defined the 1960s, moving from the Mersey Beat that made them a boy band that the girls loved to folk and psychedelic rock, inventing new genres seemingly with ease. But those are the flowers that grew from the dirt. They did it all themselves, or so they say.

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Agilemania

MARCH 2, 2022

How is CSPO different from other certifications? The CSPO certification training will enable attendees to learn product backlog management to define product backlog items correctly. They seek feedback from the customers regularly to ensure that the developers develop a product that meets the expectations of the customers.

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International Institute for Learning

JULY 29, 2019

Reading various blogs, articles and papers on how to be successful as a project manager got me thinking about what NOT to do as a PM. I have seen some major “do nots” throughout a 27-year career in project management and it is only in hindsight that these became my lessons for the future. Don’t get stuck in the weeds.

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Wrike

JUNE 3, 2015

As a vendor of project management and collaboration software, we talk to a lot of project managers. And we’ve heard all too often that despite every obvious intention for a project to be successful, the reality is that sometimes things fall apart. Here’s what they attributed to the top reasons projects fail: 1.

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Wrike

JULY 21, 2023

It encompasses all activities involved in executing specific tasks, from start to finish. A customer service department that does not track response times or customer satisfaction ratings may fail to recognize the need for training or process adjustments. Moreover, automation can also help in improving data accuracy and consistency.

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