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Why are people leaving project management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some of the things project managers reported in the survey as wanting to learn more about: How to speak with clients with less stress How to keep the team motivated and how to manage stress How a manager can reduce stresses. There is no career development. See the trend?

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Master Construction Procurement With These Methods

ProjectManager.com

It’s important that a construction company knows all five different types of procurement methods (general contracting, design and build, construction management, joint venture and private financing) to know which is right for them and their project. Construction Management. Private Financing. General Contracting.

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Contracting for Agile Software Development Efforts

Scrum.org

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Simple Yet Effective Strategies For Measuring Productivity And Making Progress

nTask

Measuring productivity is vital for consistent improvement and development. As much as performance management is important , developing strategies to gauge progress is not an easy feat. They are always on the lookout to develop better strategies and improve the working environment. Why Is Measuring Productivity Important?

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

There will be an award ceremony for the project management graduate of the year, project management postgraduate dissertation of the year, project management apprentice of the year, project management educator of the year and many more. Technical Project Management Conference. 10th IPMA Research Conference.

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How to change your project’s scope (the right way)

Planio

While there’s no such thing as the “perfect” project plan — studies show that mid-project scope changes are still one of the leading causes for project failure. But in a profession where change is inevitable, often the real reason for failure isn’t the scope change itself, but instead, it’s poorly managed scope changes.

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The ESP connection

The Lazy Project Manager

Does the executive team interact with project sponsors on a regular basis, perhaps are they even the executive sponsors themselves? And do the sponsors interact and engage on a regular, bi-directional manner with the project managers? Let’s start with the simplest form of this test by asking ‘Is there one?’. One point here.