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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Project planning templates help reduce work as they’re preformatted so you don’t have to always start from scratch. But using project planning templates is, at best, only a starting point. To ensure your plans are well-managed during the execution of your project you’ll want to upgrade to project management software.

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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Risk Coach

Have you left anything out of your project management plan? Check out this checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. As I define a project management plan, I strive for clarity, brevity, and simplicity. Define your project plan accordingly.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”. As project managers, defining and planning projects is what we do. That means everything starts with creating a project scope. Project scope definition What is a project scope statement?

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15 Project Management Challenges & How to Overcome Them

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This gradual expansion of a project’s scope beyond the original agreement is obviously going to negatively impact the budget and schedule so it’s something to always be aware of and, if there are changes, manage them to avoid as much negative impact as possible. That’s called a change management plan.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

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Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. This allows the project manager to get buy-in from the project’s key stakeholders and ensure all the research has been done to move into the planning phase without any hiccups.

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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

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Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide will define what project documentation is, why it is important and what are the top 10 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects.

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15 Powerful Benefits of Project Management

Project Bliss

The project manager holds team members accountable to honor their commitments. This helps the project stay on track and avoid schedule slippage and missed dependencies. Clearly Defined Scope . The project manager works with the customers and team to ensure that the scope is well-defined from the outset.