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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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Every project is different. Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. To better manage projects, one must clearly understand project strategy, who’s responsible for it in the organization and the steps to create a project strategy.

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Project Intake Process: Prioritizing Project Requests & Proposals

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PMOs can use project management software to review and decide on whether to accept, reject or defer the request. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that estimates project costs and creates budgets to show the viability of the request.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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In other words, you can look at an organization with strong project management maturity as one that’s managing the planning, execution and compilation of its projects well. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration.

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Cost Estimation for Projects: How to Estimate Accurately

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Cost estimation is the process that takes those factors into account, and calculates a budget that meets the financial commitment necessary for a successful project. Project cost estimation applies to everything from building a bridge to developing that new killer app. An Overview of Cost Estimation.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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These organizational process assets are critical to a project’s success and its operations. To make sure you understand what organizational process assets are, first, we’ll define the terms and explain their importance. Let’s define each of these types. Then we’ll get into some examples to fully illustrate their meaning.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even if you aren’t using a formal lifecycle or specific methodology, you’ll still be planning, executing, controlling, and monitoring tasks in order to meet objectives – that’s project management. Finding case studies of projects There are lots of case studies available to read about projects. More on that later.

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