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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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How to Create a Project Initiation Document (Template Included)

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Before you can start a project — even before you can plan it — you first need to define the project in detail. That’s why a project initiation document (PID) is so important. To understand why, let’s define the term and compare it to other project documentation. What Is a Project Initiation Document (PID)?

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A Quick Guide to Strategic Initiatives

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Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. Strategic initiatives are large and complex, requiring a program manager to steer that big ship. Strategic Goals.

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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

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When managing a project, it’s second nature to define its objectives, scope, budget and schedule—but often you neglect the project management environment. A project has five phases: initiation, planning, execution, monitor and control and close. Why Is Project Environment Important? Do this at your own peril.

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Project Initiation: How to Start Your Project Off Right

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But if a project isn’t initiated correctly, then those hopes and expectations aren’t anchored in a solid foundation, and your project can drift off course and head for disaster. Of course, there are many steps in the successful execution of a project, but project initiation is the first and, in some ways, the most important step.

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How to Define a Workflow Process

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First you need to define a workflow process. How do you get a new initiative done? That’s because there are a lot of different people and perspectives embedded in every new initiative. How to Define Your Workflow. Here are three tips for defining a workflow for your project. Read on to learn how.

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What Is a Sales Order? (Example & Template Included)

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To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. To distinguish between other transactional documents, we’ll define a sales invoice and purchase order and how they differ from sales orders. We will define that process in the next section.