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How to Be a Project Management Consultant

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Project management consultants don’t only add value to a project, but they can help introduce project management processes to any team. What Is a Project Management Consultant? What Is a Project Management Consultant? A project management consultant gives expert advice to their client.

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Project Management for Professional Services Providers

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Examples of professional services include accounting, advertising and marketing, consulting, IT professional services and legal services. Professional services use project management to plan, manage and track complex projects in engineering, IT, business consulting and architecture, to name only a few examples.

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The secret weapon to precise project planning: Parametric estimating (with examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Example 3 Here’s another example, this time for a cost estimation: It costs £500 for a day of consultancy. Your project is being outsourced to the consultancy and they have given you a Gantt chart saying the work will take 10 days, spread over 7 weeks.

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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

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Independent Professional Services These are services provided by external consultants or firms that operate independently of the client organization. Common independent professional services include consulting, legal, accounting, engineering, marketing, training and development services. What Is a Professional Services Consultant?

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Work Wellbeing from Anywhere: Creating a Movement Mindset

Speaker: Laurel Farrer, CEO, Distribute Consulting

Join Laurel Farrer, CEO of Distribute Consulting, to learn how you can equip your team in a way that strengthens physical, emotional, and mental health, all while optimizing productivity, regardless of where they are working. The unexpected chaos of 2020 left our society feeling more anxious, burned out, and isolated than ever.

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Stakeholder Salience Model in Project Management

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This leads to better decision-making by providing clarity on who needs to be consulted, informed or involved in key decisions. RACI Chart Template RACI stands for responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. Another advantage of using the salience model in project management is resource optimization.

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Creating and using a stakeholder register for project success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She rang me on the day the project went live, unsurprisingly upset that I had not consulted her. Typically, you’d transfer the names (or roles) from your list into a stakeholder matrix where you can plot people on a 2 by 2 grid (beloved of consultants and project managers) to show their interest and importance.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. The primary takeaway? Forrester found “only 1.2%

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman, author and consultant, to consider these options for your products and organizations: How to use the idea of working to create change rather than manage change in planning. Instead of planning for either discovery or delivery, we can use experiments—for all our work. How delivery differs from discovery in practice.