ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 18, 2021

For any company to profit from a product, there must be a strategic plan in place to produce just enough to meet that need. Aggregate planning is a technique to create an equilibrium between demand and capacity. Let’s take a look at what aggregate production planning is and some aggregate planning strategies.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. Conflict should be a healthy part of any team’s development, and it’ a good way to challenge requirements and ensure that your business case and plans stand up to scrutiny.

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Project Risk Coach

MAY 21, 2018

Featuring baselines, subsidiary plans, and other ancillary plans Do you know the 5Ps? Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? Focus on keeping the plans simple and practical.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. How to improve: Plan your communication activities. Bill could periodically review the charter with his project team to ensure that the team is aligned with the original intent of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. The cost of quality is a method by which an organization calculates how much it will cost to deliver a product or service that meets the quality expectation standard set in the project plan. What Is Cost of Quality (COQ)?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 20, 2024

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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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Without exception, I hear—poor communication. Let’s look at five bad communication habits to avoid and what to do about each. How to improve: Plan your communication activities. Bill could periodically review the charter with his project team to ensure that the team is aligned with the original intent of the project.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 7, 2024

That doesn’t happen without an organizational strategy to plan for the organization’s long-term success. Organizational strategy is the long-term planning a company does to achieve some goal in the future. It’s not only communicative but helps management develop strategic plans so the company can accomplish its goals.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s easy to get lost in the planning and execution as these are foundational processes that help deliver successful projects. Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. Projects aren’t executed in a vacuum.

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Inloox

APRIL 16, 2024

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. SWOT analysis in the project management context In project management , it is important to both plan effectively and implement well.

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Concepts are the bridge to project planning because you can derive the most important tasks from them. Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. You need the following competencies for successful concept development: 1. Information for the project team.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

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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nTask

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Resource Planning in project management has been gaining traction for a while now. Moreover, since the concept of resource planning is generating so much noise, the project management has responded in kind and that’s why the qualifications regarding the people that are considered experts in the field have evolved and become more complex.

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Ganttic

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Here we’ll provide a few tips on creating a better resource management plan. Join us as we explore the key elements, challenges, and strategies to help you craft a strong resource management plan. Let’s ensure your projects not only meet their goals but do so efficiently and sustainably with smart resource plan.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Let’s take a look at Jira, which says it helps teams to track, manage and automate their projects. Jira is software that was developed by Atlassian, an Australian-based company, to track bugs, issues and for general project management. They allow teams to view, manage and report on their work. That’s a tall order. What Is Jira?

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 15, 2020

That’s why a planning meeting in project management is key to kicking off a successful project. If not, well, that’s why meetings get a bad name. The more prepared you are, the more productive the meeting and the more efficient your project planning. What Is the Purpose of a Planning Meeting?

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Project Risk Coach

JULY 2, 2018

Poor risk management is costly. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the life of Tom Whitley. Although Tom missed a few deadlines, he implemented most of his projects, though small, on time and under budget in his first year. The senior management team praised Tom for the early action.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

You’ve made the product or developed a great service, now you need to create a marketing plan. Your marketing plan defines the strategies that your organization will use to reach target customers, outperform competitors and position your brand. Basically, it’s taking a marketing plan and executing it.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How can I stay within the budget with the available resource mix? Suppose a project manager has an upcoming project for website development and design. The project has a defined timeline of six months, and the resources involved are developers, testers, UI/UX designers, analysts, etc.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 20, 2022

Managing international project teams requires cultural sensitivity and an awareness of what makes us different — and the same. In this article you’ll learn 7 helpful tips for working with international teams on global projects. Working with global teams is normal. Many of us do manage international teams now.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 5, 2023

Clarity can help project teams gain better insight into potential threats and opportunities. This shared vision is essential for team members to understand how their involvement can help achieve project goals. Improve Risk Evaluations How can an individual or a team evaluate a poorly defined risk?

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product. Some other teams may use animal sizes (Rat, Cat, Dog, Horse, Elephant etc.)

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having designated risk roles ensures that significant risks receive attention and allows everyone on the team to focus on completing the project successfully. First, sponsors develop and cast the project’s vision, including goals , risk appetite , and risk thresholds. Project sponsors have several responsibilities.

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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. If you’re tasked with producing a service or product, it not only needs to be delivered on time and within budget, but also at a level of quality that makes the service or product viable. What Is a Quality Management Plan?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

Therefore, construction management interfaces with all three parties in order to make sure the project is delivered on time and within its budget , if not ideally under budget. ProjectManager is online project management software that helps construction management plan, manage and track projects in real time. Initiation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

By the way, the answer to that question is: “Yes, let me analyze what the impact will be and bring you a recommendation for what that means for our current budget and timeline.”). Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ClickUp is a feature-rich, highly collaborative work management tool and Monday is a customizable work management tool designed to help teams work more efficiently by tracking projects and workflows. ClickUp vs. Monday both have weaknesses. Smaller teams who feel this way can probably make do with the free version of Asana.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Identify Your Resource Requirements Controlling costs starts with planning. Seek it out.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 17, 2022

New thinking prompted action, a plan was approved,, budgets authorized, and training developed. Why didn’t anyone speak up sooner to plan using the what-if scenario planning method? Passion can also emerge from success like being on a team that has achieved a tremendous win with throughput or lead time.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. No requirements management plan. Poor requirements change process. Let's look at 12 common requirements mistakes.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s the first step in planning, managing and mitigating risk in your projects. A risk breakdown structure is a tool for managing risks, which are any events that you have not planned for or expected. Risk is usually thought of as a negative impact on the project’s budget, timeline or quality. Management. Contractual.

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Scrum.org

JULY 21, 2021

In industries ranging from financial services to consulting and defense, we can find countless examples of how organizations employed incentive plans that produced behavior not aligned to the organization's desired strategic goals. Unfortunately, these types of incentive plans can cause numerous unintended consequences.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Scrum board, also known as a Kanban board, is a visual tool often used by Agile teams to track and manage work items, often represented as sticky notes or digital cards, as they progress through various stages of a project or sprint. Jira Jira is arguably one of the most popular project management tools for Agile teams.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You’ve heard the phrase, “Always have a Plan B.” ” Well, “Plan B” is just common vernacular for what’s known as a contingency plan. In other words, a contingency plan is put in place in case the primary plan that you’re executing doesn’t unfold as expected.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Arrow Diagramming Method A network diagramming technique that represents the start and end of activities with arrows to help with scheduling in the project planning phase. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage. It is also called a Business Case.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s easy to see which projects are open and the team members who are assigned to tasks in those projects. In terms of human resources, there’s a color-coded workload chart that makes it easy to see how many tasks each team member has across the portfolio. Key metrics can be highlighted to keep stakeholders updated.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 11, 2023

TL;DR – Key Takeaways There are many differences between good and bad managers. Primarily, the differences are in communication, empathy, interpersonal skills, decision-making, and the willingness to improve their teams in all aspects. Exceptional managers have great leadership qualities.

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