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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Failing to document next steps can leave some participants confused, possibly even duplicating work and that can lead to missed deadlines and budget overspend – not to mention missed requirements and potential re-work. Creating meeting minutes and properly documenting next steps can be cumbersome and time consuming.

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April Fool’s Ms. Project Manager: 3 Tips for Unexpected Surprises

LiquidPlanner

Project management software can make the process of time estimation and dependency tracking more manageable. Document lessons learned. A survey I conducted revealed over half of all project managers documented lessons learned less than 10% of the time. This is a missed opportunity considering the immense benefits we can derive.

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Calming Project Management Anxiety

LiquidPlanner

Document next steps The meeting may have seemed like a huge success, but progress can fall flat without follow-up. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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Improve Your Productivity & Get Rid of Your Project Demons

LiquidPlanner

The practice was centered around documenting daily ‘to do’ lists in the Franklin Covey Planner with each item assigned an A, B or C priority then, those were further prioritized with 1, 2 or 3. Prioritize A-1s so the most important things come first. Brad is married, a father of 11, and living in sunny Las Vegas, NV. .

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Agile Software Development.

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43 Learning Resources for New and Experienced Project Managers

LiquidPlanner

This course covers the basics of project management, from methodologies to documentation the phases of a project. Their website is chock full of helpful information, including articles, white papers, online courses, and webinars. If you work in the software and product development space, you should bookmark this blog.

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

Teamweek

You can have access to the best marketing project management tools but without a clear, documented marketing plan you’re bound to fail. 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. Project goals.