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Guide to project onboarding (checklist and common problems)

Resource Guru

Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. It’s a time to define why the project is important, who the stakeholders are, and which people on the team are responsible for what tasks. Poor stakeholder management.

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

Critical Chain. Critical Path. To be more flexible and have more opportunities for development in the multi-project environment, you can combine methodologies distinguishing the best practices to create a new more effective approach. The most popular PM methodologies re as follows: Agile .

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How to Create a Project Schedule (step-by-step guide)

PM Basics

Add known vacations and days off for all team members. Set durations for each task (copy the estimates provided by the team). Identify a critical path. Repeat the process until you have a realistic project schedule that you and your team believe in. The scheduling model is the critical path method in our case.

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How to Beat Parkinson’s Law and Deliver Projects in Half the Time

Epicflow Blog

Later the author wrote some books that became quite famous in the world where he described his bureaucracy observations as a British civil servant and further developed his ideas on what’s now called Parkinson’s law. Kill bad multitasking. Clear priorities kill bad multitasking. Tips to Beat Parkinson’s Law.

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RIP Critical Chain?  

Proggio

Critical chain is not dead, but after many years of it being the primary technique for analyzing schedules and prioritizing tasks, there’s a better alternative today. A typical Gantt chart could easily have hundreds of similar dependencies, and the critical chain analysis helped distinguish one from the other.

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Multi-Project Management: All You Should Know About

Epicflow Blog

Critical Chain. Critical Path. To be more flexible and have more opportunities for development in the multi-project environment, you can combine methodologies distinguishing the best practices to create a new more effective approach. The most popular PM methodologies re as follows: Agile .

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Why Use What-If Scenario Planning in Project Management

LiquidPlanner

New thinking prompted action, a plan was approved,, budgets authorized, and training developed. If leadership had the right tools, they could see how that small piece of ice on the surface would lead to a chaotic situation down the line if they don’t course correct. . Predictably Poor? Uniform Underperforming?