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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. What is Project Execution? Project Execution Steps. Execute Project Scope. Manage Team.

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Project Controls: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Like the name implies, project controls are about controlling the project and keeping it from exceeding budgets and deadlines. What Are Project Controls? Why Are Project Controls Important?

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The specifics of how you deliver really doesn’t matter (to your executives)

Kiron Bondale

Most executives don’t care how you deliver as long as business objectives are met. I’m not suggesting that executives shouldn’t want to know anything about how those results are produced. I’m not suggesting that executives shouldn’t want to know anything about how those results are produced.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

Projects aren’t executed in a vacuum. It’s easy to get lost in the planning and execution as these are foundational processes that help deliver successful projects. Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team.

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Juggling Multiple Project Execution Methodologies? This is for you.

Planview

As a project management leader, you’ve likely encountered the challenges of using multiple project execution methodologies (such as: waterfall projects, as well as collaborative and Lean-Agile work delivery). Surescripts has been using Planview® AdaptiveWork since 2017 to tackle issues like integrating varying execution methodologies.

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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Management Plan?

Project Risk Coach

Project Scope Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control scope. Project Time Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the schedule. Project Cost Management Plan Define how you will plan, execute, and control the budget.

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Tracking Budget Variance in Project Management

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Projects are planned, but those plans are rarely executed with changes. In project management, budget variance quantifies the difference between the budget and the actual cost of executing the project. It’s a key technique that helps monitor and control project costs. Those disruptions can play havoc on a project’s budget.

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