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Calming Project Management Anxiety

LiquidPlanner

Improving communication will help limit or eliminate your anxiety and the chaos that ensues when priorities are not defined, assignments are unclear, and status is not known or consistently conveyed. Talking about the problems before they happen sets your team up to collaborate on and pursue solutions before things go south.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

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First, let’s define what project success really means. In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. A great way to swoop in as the hero is to ensure the project team is working on the right priorities for the company.

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March Project Madness

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March Madness – that crazy college basketball time of year when 64 teams play for the national championship. The madness emerges as Cinderella teams advance, upsetting highly-ranked and favored teams as they fail to deliver. . This allows project teams to focus for the win! One winner, 63 losers.

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How To Create A Marketing Project Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide

Teamweek

And yes, giving away too much of your value for free is bad. Assemble your team. It’s the document your superiors will use to understand the project, that the marketing team will work from throughout, and that you’ll use to keep the whole thing on track. Now’s the time to define the important elements of your brand’s strategy.

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

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Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn’t Report to You by Tom Kendrick. Leading a project team that doesn’t report to you is a whole new challenge in itself. Kendrick walks through how to motivate a team to contribute to a project’s success. Cost: Coursera: Agile Development Specialization.

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Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 1

MPUG

your project team). For at least twenty years and counting, the world around us has become more and more software driven, and, as a result, more digital. Electric vehicles are about 50% software, in terms of value, whereas fossil fuel cars are mostly hardware. The wall of paper files in your doctor’s office will soon be gone.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Product Development (#ProdDev). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Journal Papers, White Papers, and Essays on Project Success (#Papers). The following material comes from conferences, workshop, materials developed for clients. Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM).