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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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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. Can you see what work may be at risk for running over. Leadership admiration. What’s missing? Winning feels good and leads to love.

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

Planview

Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted. Challenges arise when senior leadership has yet to adopt an Agile mindset, even if their teams have. Risk levels. Budget limitations. Return on investment.

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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. What if the project software updated itself in real time, highlighting risks, adapting to changes, and even prompting project team members to share status when they fail to?

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Project Failure – Why it Happens

Online PM Courses

Lack of Senior Leadership. But they only matter in the context of the value, the benefits, and the risk. Poor estimating, unrealistic assumptions, and a failure to appreciate the complexity or scale of your project all happen a lot. Poor Estimating. Let’s get it straight: no estimates = no plan = inevitable failure.

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So, You Inherited a Failing Project…Here’s What to Do Next

LiquidPlanner

They should be estimating their tasks and committing to dates. Related: Your Guide to Accurate Project Estimates. Look at the Risks. All projects have some risk. Review whatever risk log there is in place and update it. Managing risk effectively is one way to build confidence in your client.