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Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team

LiquidPlanner

You don’t need a formal project management office (PMO) to understand your resource capacity. Closely monitor scope creep. Lean teams must collaborate well and trust each other. The post Small business tips for managing projects with a lean team appeared first on LiquidPlanner.

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The 18 Most Influential People in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Susanne Madsen is the author of several books on project management and leadership, including The Project Management Coaching Workbook and The Power of Project Leadership. She’s also the director of the London-based Project Leadership Institute, which works to build well-rounded and dynamic project management leaders.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

Anything that has a start and a finish, resulting in a product, is a project and its life cycle requires the oversight and leadership of a project manager. Program managers specialize in managing a group of closely related projects that are part of a program. Leadership skills. Excellent decision-making and leadership skills.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Each participant in our roundtable admitted that leadership and organizational culture were the largest obstacles when implementing Agile. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Senior leaders provide space to innovate, but not how.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste. Project Closure The formal process of closing a project, completing any remaining deliverables, and obtaining stakeholder acceptance.

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3 Continuous Improvement Strategies to Boost Your Project Management Skills

Project Pulse Journal

In project management, continuous improvement focuses on refining all aspects of the project management processes —from planning and executing to monitoring, controlling and closing—to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability. Focus on areas like agile methodologies, risk management, and leadership.

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Top Project Management Conferences of 2022

ProjectManager.com

Nowadays, even non-PMP-certified workers are taking on work that closely resembles a traditional projects, and the desire to manage them better is growing every year. What to Expect: Sessions focus on agility, software engineering and lean business. Future PMO. Project management professionals (PMP) can early up to 20 PDUs.

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