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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration.

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SWOT analysis in project management: definition, instruction & example

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How to perform a SWOT analysis Once the SWOT analysis is completed: 5 key approaches for strategy development Concrete example: SWOT analysis in a software development project Conclusion 1. Understanding these strengths allows the project team to target them in order to maximize the project's chances of success.

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Demand Management: Process, Importance and Tools

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Demand management is cross-functional as it crosses many disciplines, from consumer demand, supply teams and inventory to marketing and customer service. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with resource allocation features to keep teams working at capacity.

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Best Cost Control Techniques

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Cost control is a practice performed across businesses in most industries. Cost control as a process begins with budgeting. Actual financial results are compared with the budgeted expectations and if the actual costs are more than what was budgeted, actions to reduce those costs must be implemented. Seek it out.

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What Should You Include in Your Preconstruction Meeting Agenda?

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Construction projects are structured with schedules, budgets and resource allocation. To help you once you break ground on your construction project, we’ll throw in some free construction project management templates on estimating, scheduling and budgeting. ProjectManager has workload charts to keep teams productive.

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What Is Organizational Strategy in Business? (Examples Included)

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It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals. Stability: When the company is doing well, it seeks incremental growth by working with clients in its industry. Each department manager is responsible for leading their teams on these initiatives.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

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Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality. Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members.

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