The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 13, 2023

Organizational strategy – What is the current direction for the organization? What is its vision, strategy, or objectives? Benefits – Identify benefits with an order of magnitude estimate for each benefit. What is the history, and how did it get here? What is likely to evolve in the near, medium, and longer term?

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 4, 2024

Executives will appreciate that bottom-up budgeting leads to more accurate estimates throughout the organization. Executives still have the final word on the budget so they can have a centralized strategy. For example, while you might get more accurate estimates, you’ll find that you’re spending more.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The project owner is a leader who works with the project manager closely to drive the project to a successful conclusion. That relationship is so close that in some projects, the project owner is the project manager. Project Owner vs. Project Manager The project owner and the project manager are closely intertwined in the project.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Organizations tend to do strategy top down and they tend to do that uninformed about organizational capacity and dependencies. Importantly, we have to be able to do that without redirecting the whole org to create an estimate. The estimate is only half the equation, and the approach is disruptive to the flow of current work.

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Planview

JULY 29, 2021

Top-down strategy involves the management of a project, i.e. the project manager having complete control over the delegation of tasks and the setting of the project schedule and deadlines. Five Things to Know About the Bottom-Up Strategy. Fosters inclusive task planning. Affords unique insights. Allows you to maximize potential.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Procurement management refers to all the actions and strategies related to the cycle of identifying, evaluating and selecting suppliers of production inputs. ProjectManager is ideal to keep track of your production plans so you can better estimate when you’ll need to purchase equipment, materials, parts or anything needed for your projects.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Project management knowledge areas coincide with the process groups, which are project initiation, project planning , project execution, monitoring and controlling, and project closing. Related: Time Management Strategies & Tools. With the tasks now sequenced, the resources required for each must be estimated and assigned.

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NimbleWork

APRIL 16, 2024

Project management is a multifaceted discipline that combines techniques, processes, and strategies to plan, execute, monitor, and control projects effectively. Planning involves breaking down the work into manageable tasks, estimating resource requirements, and creating schedules and budgets.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Project planning is the second stage in project management, after initiation and before execution, monitoring and controlling and closing. Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. Each task will have a duration with its own start date and end date.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 19, 2024

Resistance to change Not everyone embraces new time-tracking tools and strategies. Cost implication Small companies and start-ups, in particular, must keep a close eye on their bottom lines. Only two tasks are non-billable: a handoff and some emails regarding content strategy. But that doesn’t have to be the case.

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Scoro

MAY 16, 2024

Revenue forecasting ensures that your team is on track to hit targets and profit margins while allowing you to change strategies or tactics to improve revenue and profit targets in the future. Scoro “Detailed” work report compares the estimated time for each project against the actual time your team spent working on it.

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Proofhub

MAY 5, 2021

The long answer: Relating well with subordinates and leading them to success requires you to develop smart supervising strategies ; to make genuine efforts every day to improve your ability to lead people. What’s more, you are in luck because, in this article, we will help you design smart strategies for different supervisory challenges.

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate. process, policy, practices, perceptions, etc.) effectively and efficiently. Also known as continuous process improvement.

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Scrum.org

JULY 5, 2021

To determine whether the team could meet its goal, it created Product Backlog items, or to-do items, representing what was known about the work and then used the complementary practice of points estimation. The system allowed the team to estimate the total points of work required to deliver the new business requirements. Lean Thinking.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 1, 2016

For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For the software machines the principles of closed loop control in the presence of noise and changing conditions are the same ‒ https://goo.gl/cUcXNj. https://goo.gl/DP6Jw

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Proofhub

MARCH 31, 2021

The long answer: Relating well with subordinates and leading them to success requires you to develop smart supervising strategies ; to make genuine efforts every day to improve your ability to lead people. What’s more, you are in luck because, in this article, we will help you design smart strategies for different supervisory challenges.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 23, 2022

Projects are subsets of workplaces and since project management is, for the most part, an activity that involves working very closely with others, the impact of a bully in a project is potentially lethal to project success. Coping strategies for dealing with workplace bullying. Shane Cowishlaw, writing on Stuff.co.nz Is it fair, safe?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 16, 2020

Finally, once the procurement is done, the contracts must be closed properly. Informs Strategy. Without a procurement management plan there can be no procurement strategy and without a strategy there can be no plan. Related: Cost Estimation for Projects. Why Do You Need a Procurement Management Plan? Define Costs.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Another project is closing and releasing a development resource that could greatly help get your project back on schedule. Quantitative analysis : Calculate the potential benefit by multiplying the probability times the estimated value. The strategies for opportunities include: Exploit.

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PM Basics

MARCH 5, 2019

How to select a Risk Response Strategy? Definition of Risk Response Strategies. Here is what you need to know: Risk Response Strategy or Risk Response Plan is not something from an enterprise world. (By Waiting for a risk to happen and only then mitigating the negative impact is a bad strategy. Sounds complicated.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Companies focus their energies on ways to predict outcomes in order to help them set successful long-term strategies. It goes without saying that the more accurate business forecasting is, the more effective the strategies and project plans that stem from the process. One thing is constant, all industries rely on business forecasting.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The process of capital budgeting helps managers create a budget for the project’s costs, estimate a timeline for the project’s return on investment and decide if the potential value of that project is worth the capital investment. Businesses don’t want to lose money or spend time on a lost leader. Also, ask your employees for suggestions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We determined what needed to be done to put in place instant fixes so that the website code would work and how much time a complete re-write of the website code would take – which we estimated would be all night long.”. That way we could devise a strategy to fix it. What’s the difference between a workshop and an ‘ordinary’ meeting?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Rothman is the author of 14 books, nine of which are on project management topics, including: Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate & Deliver, Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization and Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The sharp project manager is going to understand that while risk is inevitable, the ability to forecast it and prepare a strategy to correct whatever wrongs may occur during the project is part of what planning for a project is. You also have a way to say when the risk is no longer a risk; that is you can close it.

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Planio

MARCH 21, 2018

Research the market and turn your ideas into strategy. Put everything together in a launch day strategy (and use your project management tool to track it all). Debrief your go-to-market strategy. So, the first step in your product launch strategy is making absolutely sure that people want what you’re selling.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2018

In project management there are five phases: initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing. Cost: Estimate the costs involved across the project and formulate a budget. The last phase of the project is closing it out. Schedule: Determine the duration of the tasks and set dates for their completion.

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WorkOtter

JULY 17, 2023

You’ll also create a budget, identifying necessary resources and estimating costs. Additionally, you should establish communication channels, risk management strategies, and quality control measures. Risk mitigation strategies are also put in place to cut possible disruptions.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

You’ll also need to begin estimating their level of involvement and influence in your project to get ready to create stakeholder communication strategies and prioritize them. Your stakeholder might be working on multiple projects, which means they’re not going to have the same closeness to the project as you. Dispel Myths.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 22, 2018

Strategy is a much overused, misused, and abused word. It's tossed around by those who are unfamiliar with Strategy Making roles in businesses. . Strategy is creating fit among a company's activities. The success of a strategy depends on doing many things well - not just a few. The Framework for IT Strategy .

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Let’s look more closely at the four different types of project ROI that you can calculate. Actual ROI This is the project’s true financial performance compared to initial estimations. To nail time estimates , break down the project into smaller tasks and estimate the duration of each one. Here are some tips to do that.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 13, 2022

LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. Detailing out each step with a high – low estimate on how long it will take to complete each task allows you to see when you can realistically achieve your goals. What are your mid-year milestones? Too many fires to fight.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

Program managers specialize in managing a group of closely related projects that are part of a program. The project manager’s first role is making a feasible plan that achieves the goals and objectives of the project and aligns with the organization’s overall business strategy. Business & IT strategy experience.

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

When scheduling a project, you estimate how much time tasks should take and who will work on each task. Sometimes it can be difficult to estimate how long a task will take if you aren’t an expert yourself, so it’s best to involve the team or experts in your planning. Further Reading: Why Toggl Chose RAFT Over 40 Hour Workweeks 10.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2018

There's a fallacy used by some in the software development business, that estimates are not needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. Of course, the machine in the video wouldn't be able to take a step without falling if it didn't have a probabilistic feedforward adaptive closed loop control system. Related articles.

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International Institute for Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Where is your leadership strategy now? Estimating and Applying Points with Agile – How to apply, and when is it done? As early as most of us can recall, we estimate the size/magnitude/amount of effort to do something in time. Often, we have a disconnect between strategy and execution. Presenters: Keynote. Dr. Joe Perez.

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