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How to Build and Implement a Project Strategy

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Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. They help with prioritizing projects, providing governance guidelines and ensure that projects are beneficial to the organization by aligning with larger strategic goals.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Get your free Kanban Board Template Use this free Kanban Board Template for Excel to manage your projects better. Download Excel File Scrum vs. Kanban In-Depth Comparison Many similarities between scrum and kanban make them evenly matched. Because of this, kanban can be applied by a wider variety of teams.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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Portfolio, Program and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) by Axelos This wide-angle approach looks at the whole organization and its interdependent processes for an accurate maturity assessment. The goal is to improve organizational processes, but it also addresses project portfolio management.

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10 Free Manufacturing Excel Templates

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ProjectManager has dozens of free templates to download. You can see the percentage complete of all tasks in your schedule, your team’s workload, the length of tasks and even project costs. The work order can also show the contractor how to do the work, which can be very important in complex manufacturing projects.

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Organizational Process Assets: Definitions, Examples & Templates

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Officially defined by the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMI’s PMBOK) as “the plans, processes, policies, procedures and knowledge bases specific to and used by the performing organization,” operational process assets influence the management of a project.

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General Conditions in Construction: Definitions & Best Practices

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You’ll find general conditions in the project contract, the specifications and the project costs. To understand general conditions in construction, we need to define them as it applies to each place in the construction project. The general conditions in this place are specific to the project.

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How to Create a Project Assumptions List: Examples and Template Included

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Delivery: Project servers arrive configured as expected. Budget – estimated cost of the project. Project costs will stay the same as initially budgeted costs. Training will be conducted internally with no additional training costs incurred. Finances – funding to complete the project.