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Will a Project Management Certification Help Your Career?

LiquidPlanner

If having the letters PMP after your name is going to open doors and get you a great new IT leadership job, then certification makes perfect sense. Here’s something that will help your career whether you have a PMP or not: knowing how to estimate projects with accuracy, and seeing the risks arise before it’s too late.

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

If you use LiquidPlanner’s priority-based software, you can estimate when projects will be completed with 90% confidence so that you can be the superhero project manager with minimal effort. When a project ends up costing significantly more than estimated, the project manager is sometimes made to be the villain. Protect all assets.

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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

Looking ahead is an important component of good leadership and project management. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the people and resource needs to deliver on the plan. Accurately Estimating Time.

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7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. This is where your leadership skills can make a real difference. That didn’t sit quite right with her.

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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

In my experience, project leaders do not accurately estimate tasks, they fail to set clear priorities, and do not realistically plan for unexpected but likely changes that always seem to emerge. Leadership admiration. All these are illustrations of a good project plan and competent leadership. What’s missing?

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Each participant in our roundtable admitted that leadership and organizational culture were the largest obstacles when implementing Agile. How it’s delivered. Read the Lean Portfolio Management: Lean-Agile Governance Blog.

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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Besides simply saving time by repurposing an effective project plan, you also will be less likely to overlook important tasks or input inaccurate task estimations. Identify a project plan that worked before and is similar to the project you are about to undertake – and then leverage it as a template for the new project.