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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

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These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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A Real Project Manager’s Guide to RAID

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Issues are things you want to keep on top of and make sure no one on the project team forgets about, so you'll be coming back to this tab regularly to make sure they get closed off. A RAID log is a way of tracking the things that affect and influence your project. It is part of the governance and control mechanisms around your project.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

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Here are some tips to get the word out that the business influencers are going Agile: Send them links to articles and blog posts that mention your competitors’ move to Agile. For example, the United States federal government adopting Agile has meant a rise in job openings requiring Agile project management expertise.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

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Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. Ineffective corporate governance.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project.

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting management skills are no longer part of the Exam Content Outline (ECO), which you can download from the PMI website. Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. Remember that on video people can see you!