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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

What is Project Execution? During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. It’s a discipline of its own.” Meet Regularly. Execution Gaps.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. This means this methodology greatly influences how your team operates and might even require you to make hiring decisions based on it.

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Review Engaging stakeholders on projects

Henny Portman

The book Engaging stakeholders on projects – How to harness people power , written by Elizabeth Harrin is the starting point if you want to get a better understanding of stakeholder engagement and it gives you a lot of practical advice, tips for improving practice key takeaways and action steps for successful stakeholder engagement.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You should look at what happened on past projects because that helps mitigate risk on your current project. PRINCE2® encourages you to dig into lessons learned all through the project life cycle to help you make better choices. Document lessons learned for future projects.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. Essentially, it’s all about working with people to build support so that you can achieve the intended outcomes for your project. If you put those aspects into a formula, you get this understanding plus action plus influence equals engagement. Whatever they had.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. Essentially, it’s all about working with people to build support so that you can achieve the intended outcomes for your project. If you put those aspects into a formula, you get this understanding plus action plus influence equals engagement. Whatever they had.

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Top 8 Challenges All Project Managers Face at Work

PM Basics

Your manager expects you to know everything about project management right from the beginning. You need to manage people, but you don’t have influence or authority over them. All in all, the project manager’s role has lots of challenges. Solution: Carve some time and ask your mentor about the whole project life cycle.