The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 26, 2022

A project is often considered something purely physical, like construction. The truth is, a project can be any work that has a beginning and an end. To that end, the legal industry has projects, too. Legal project management is well familiar to lawyers, even if they don’t necessarily use that phrase. Learn More!

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Struggling with keeping your project on track? Are your project profits slowly evaporating? We often plan a project with this overly optimistic mindset — never considering the myriad of project risks out there. Before you know it, you’re mid-project and starting to feel the heat. And here they are in full… 1.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 26, 2021

For example, a fixed-price contract is only viable for the contractor when they are able to very accurately forecast how much the project will cost. Thankfully, there are many other types of contractual agreements which take into account the fact that not every cent can be accounted for until a project has concluded.

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Resource Guru

JANUARY 17, 2023

Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. But sometimes, complacency can creep in. As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 12, 2019

You’ve got responsibility for a project. I have researched the best places to get free project management templates for download online. These are all good, reliable sources of quality documentation for projects. How to Use Free Project Management Templates. So you turn to the internet to find the paperwork you need.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 25, 2023

All projects are governed by basic constraints like scope, deadlines, and budget, which are part of a project baseline. Without a baseline, you don’t have a project. What is a project baseline in project management? Why is a project baseline important? How to create a baseline project plan?

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nTask

MAY 27, 2021

There are many elements involved in planning a project. One such document that is one of the first to be created and used throughout the project lifecycle is the project brief. The project brief is an important document as it outlines the entire project from the get-go. What is a Project Brief?

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Proofhub

JUNE 12, 2023

Exceptional project leadership is the key that empowers leaders and managers to navigate challenges, ignite creativity, and achieve remarkable project success! In the realm of project management, the ability to master the art of exceptional project leadership is like possessing a superpower.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 17, 2022

Project Controls narrow the differences between a project’s plan and its execution. As a result, you stay within budget and meet project deadlines. Projects need to meet goals and expectations. A project plan helps you chart out a path towards meeting these goals. What are project controls?

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 24, 2023

That’s why effective project management should go beyond theory, and expand to include risk factors – both internal and external. A practical project risk management strategy accounts for team member miscommunications and mistakes, scope creep and shifting client expectations, and any technical difficulties along the way.

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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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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Requirements are the tasks that must be done in order to deliver a final project. If you’ve never heard of a requirements traceability matrix and you’re managing a project, you’ll need a crash course. Not only that, but each decision made over the course of the project will impact the project’s requirements.

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Project managers often struggle to calculate project ROI and communicate a project’s financial value to stakeholders as they might not have the right tools or processes to do so. This guide has everything you need to start calculating the ROI of your projects, avoid scope creep, and improve project efficiency.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Scope changes . Project delays.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overrun is one of the high priority tasks for a project manager. However, it usually becomes challenging due to a great number of factors: underestimation of project costs, uncontrolled changes, poor resource allocation, etc. Scope changes . Project delays.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Effective project monitoring helps keep the moving parts of a project flowing. But maintaining one eye on the broader picture is challenging for even the most experienced project managers. In this guide, you’ll learn what project monitoring is, the three key constraints, and how to monitor them effectively.

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Function Point

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. Creative briefs, when properly used, bring order to projects. when it’s needed. who it’s for.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A time and materials contract is a legally binding agreement that establishes a project’s cost based on the time taken and the material prices used to complete it. The “actual time” = the number of hours spent working on the entire project. The graphic designer and developers take 80 hours to complete the project.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

But nailing your project estimates will help you save countless projects from failure, and it’s a non-negotiable if you want to keep your projects profitable. In this guide we’ll cover: What are project estimation techniques? Types of estimations in project management Project estimation techniques.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In this guide, you’ll learn examples of when to use either pricing model, which is more effective, and how you can utilize both models to maximize profitability. This is typically done based on calculating how long it will take to complete the project in hours and then multiplying that by your hourly rate. Flat rate or hourly?

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Teamweek

MAY 13, 2021

Without a website project plan, you’ll have a website that yields poor results, disappoints clients, and frustrates the development team. This article will help you plan web design projects so you can deliver them successfully. Here’s what you’ll learn: Why do you need a website project plan? How to plan a website project?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Everything you need to know about project management terms is here in one list! Plus we’ve added handy links to help you dive deeper into different topics with videos, articles and even our round-up of all resources so you can put these important terms into practice with your projects.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 1, 2022

You’ve billed a client for 50 hours of work, but the project is slowly creeping towards 75 hours. The project is spiraling out of control, scope creep is closing in, and you’re losing sleep because of all the stress. Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common for project managers. .

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Epicflow Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Initial project phases play an important role for the success of further project management work. One of the essential activities as part of these phases is developing a work breakdown structure that becomes the basis for other project management documents and processes. . This article will help you figure it out. .

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The IIL Blog

JULY 26, 2018

The Project Management Institute (PMI) ® Talent Triangle ® has addressed the need for project leadership competencies. 1) Technical Project Management. (2) Below is a contrast between project management vs. project leadership competencies. Project Management Technical. Project Management Behavioral.

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Below, our expert-led guide with real-world insights goes deeper into what agency utilization rates are, how they’re calculated, why they matter, and how to optimize them to help drive agency growth. The result tells you the percentage of time that your team spends on projects that actually bring in money.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2023

This blog post will discuss the day-to-day activities of this position and explore how these responsibilities help create successful projects. Product Owners are essential to the success of an Agile project, and understanding their role is key to successful delivery.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Accurate construction cost estimates are crucial for successful project planning and execution. A well-developed budget lays a solid foundation for managing costs and ensures that projects are completed within financial constraints. They allow project managers to allocate resources effectively, so that the project stays within budget.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

You find a new business opportunity and take on a new project. Then the work starts… Scope creep enters the picture, and that profit margin that was supposed to fuel your future growth disappears little by little. In this guide, you will learn how to increase the profits of your projects and get your growth back on track.

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Resource Guru

AUGUST 18, 2022

What makes a project successful? This is the question every great Project Manager asks themselves when kicking off a new project. Delivering successful projects comes down to one (not so) simple thing: Defining what project success looks like to stakeholders. Ask your client what project success means to them.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 18, 2023

Struggling to manage your projects and often find yourself overwhelmed by an overflowing to-do list Project time management might just be the solution to your problems! What is project time management? Project time management involves estimating, prioritizing, and scheduling project tasks within a timeframe.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to part three of our agency project management series. In part one of this series, we covered the basics of agency project management , followed by part two, where we walked you through five agency project management methodologies. This ensures projects stay on track, deadlines are met, and time is managed effectively.

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Agilemania

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Therefore, this guide will provide you with a comprehensive overview of how to write user stories in Jira and the best practices to follow. User stories are a fundamental part of agile project management. User stories can also be used as a basis for estimating project costs. Recommend Reading: How to Create Sprint in JIRA?

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Wrike

AUGUST 13, 2019

While the creative work is getting done, you’re running into the same roadblocks with each and every design project you crank out. . Part of what makes project management in design so challenging is that there’s a lot of collaboration happening on each and every project. . Challenge #2: Combatting scope creep.

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Function Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Life’s too short to churn out projects that miss the mark. For a creative brief to be the most effective, it should be completed at the beginning of a project so that it’s streamlining the timeline and not interfering with it. Creative briefs, when properly used, bring order to projects. Why You Need Creative Briefs.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 13, 2023

And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any successful project process. In this article, we’ll cover: What is monitoring and controlling in project management?

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