LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Estimation is an invaluable tool for anticipating and managing project uncertainties. Accurate project estimates help identify cost and schedule requirements with relative precision, and reduce the risk of running out of time, resources, and budget during a project. Project Estimation Techniques. Comprehensible.

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LiquidPlanner

JULY 5, 2016

For the last year we’ve been using ranged estimates to build out our schedules. How do we convince them to go with a two-point estimate? Dear Reality: Ranged estimates are awesome, so I’m totally with you on that one. Talk about transparency and managing risk. For the most part our customers love it. Ask Elizabeth!

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Estimate Manufacturing Risk Management Leadership 84

LiquidPlanner

MARCH 16, 2022

Project management is a lot more complicated than relying on the luck of the Irish to ensure people are working on the right priorities at the right time. Luck comes along suddenly and unexpectedly in managing priorities without a project management tool. Project management software is a great way to work smarter, not harder.

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Software Review 2022 Budget Software 199

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

This article, 7 Ethics Tips For Project Managers , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. A project manager approached me recently with a problem. It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate PMO PMI 318

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. COSMIC Software Estimation Approach,” Alain Abran, ICEAA Workshop, Portland Oregon, June 6?9, Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”. 61, September 2004.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 23, 2018

” As project managers, we’re driven by dates. Customers, senior managers and stakeholders all want to know how long it will take to complete a project. And as project management professionals, we’re also measured by our ability to predict the future and be right about our predictions—despite the many unknowns.

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Software Review Estimate Budget Defining 158

Scrum.org

APRIL 19, 2021

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. 19 Product Owner Interview Questions on the Product Backlog, Refinement, Forecasts, and Estimates. Does this update change previous estimations? What items need to be split?

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Underperforming Technical Team SCRUM Estimate Agile 253

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. Google will find these when there is no URL provided.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Does your organization invest in a Project Management Office (PMO)? If you are reading this then you must be considering setting up a PMO or have concluded your approach to project management is not working and you are in the process of analyzing, dismantling and preparing to rebuild it. PMP-certified project managers?

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

These feelings are sometimes our reality in the project management world. We dread that next call from our customer, the project management office leader, or a company executive looking for answers or updates on our latest project. We can dread the inevitable fire drills that come with being a project manager.

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Planview

MAY 4, 2020

At the project level, it is critical for sponsors and managers (project, program, and portfolio) to have project visibility into overall status and health. For example, the dashboard could depict budgeted versus estimated costs for labor, non-labor, capitalized, non-capitalized, etc. Project Visibility: Status and Health.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Work management software will be one of the critical elements that will help companies build business resilience. We recently undertook a ground-breaking study to determine just how much time, energy, and resources are being wasted by companies due to daily struggles that we know work management can help with.

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Software Review Budget Risk Management Estimate 73

Online PM Courses

JULY 30, 2018

It certainly is, and all you need to do is follow all the principles of good Project Management, including foreseeing and acting on all threats. These articles include: How to get Better Project Management Results. Seven Vital Project Management Priorities. Project Management Essentials. Two-part Analysis.

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Governance Government Estimate Technical Review 125

Teamweek

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a quick scenario: A client needs one 10,000-word eBook for a flat rate of $1,000 Another client needs two 10,000 eBooks for $1,000 each So these two jobs will be worth $3,000. You take on most of the risk. Fixed-rate projects are OK if you can manage the risk. The client takes on most of the risk.

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Web Development Estimate Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management 52

Planview

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since financial services institutions typically work within well-established practices to mitigate risks, new ways of working aren’t always immediately accepted. Financial services companies often operate with a traditional approach to project and portfolio management where annual budgets define how projects are funded and executed.

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2019 Agile Lean Governance 103

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I asked my wife about the theme for this article, she rolled her eyes with wonder on how I could geek out so much on project management. 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.

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Planning Leadership 2022 Software 147

LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 31, 2016

There’s a lot at stake for project teams and their managers. And if you don’t have a fast and flexible tool that helps you manage and track everything–you have every right to be very, very afraid ! A dynamic project management process lets you make ranged estimates based on best/worst case scenarios.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Download the 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Ebook. Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The ebook provides both questions as well as guidance on the range of suitable answers. Are you a facilitator, a coach, a manager, a visionary, a tactician, a coordinator, or a “driver?”.

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SCRUM Lean Technical Review Agile 210

Planview

JANUARY 24, 2020

The risk of poor capacity is the inability to resource projects. This quote, from one of Planview’s global Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) customers, characterizes the challenges and risks organizations face with resource planning. Savvy PMOs choose one or a mix of the following: Allow project managers to staff directly.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 1, 2016

One of the big differentiators we’re proud of at LiquidPlanner is how effectively our project management tool captures uncertainty. Being able to manage and respond productively to risk is such an important part of projects and successful deliveries. This is important, really important. Hear it from the source!

Engineering 84

Engineering Estimate Risk Management Budget 84

LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 24, 2016

A lot of people think that the most important contribution of a project manager is building the plan. That’s what a project manager does —breaks work structures into tasks; identifies the dependencies; feeds tasks into a project management tool; works with the functional managers to build the right team , and assigns tasks to team members.

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Innovation Risk Management Construction Risk 142

LiquidPlanner

MAY 1, 2018

This is the same whether it’s an external client and you work in an agency or consulting environment or your client is a team manager who sits down the hall, working for the same company as you. It’s fine to have some elements of uncertainty in a schedule, and using dynamic tools will help you manage that. Look at the Risks.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Software Review Estimate 103

LiquidPlanner

JULY 28, 2016

When you diligently enter project and task information into your workspace (estimates, time tracked, etc.), As a Customer Success Manager, I talk to a lot of customers who ask how to surface key project metrics. You can customize a dashboard to track project completion, provide status updates, or manage your work. Play ball! .

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Software Review Estimate Risk Management Risk 74

LiquidPlanner

MARCH 28, 2017

A seemingly simple question that can become a project management nightmare to manage. If you don’t give an answer, you’re viewed as incompetent and unable to estimate. After all, you’re the project manager!) However, even better project managers look to embrace change and uncertainty while planning for it!

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Software Review Software Technical Review Estimate 60

Scrum.org

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It is not a mere management role. Although the Scrum Master role also has management aspects, for example, regarding the responsibility for promoting and supporting Scrum within the organization.). Product Backlog Refinement and Estimation. Mastering continuous product discovery and delivery (thus minimizing risk).

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 8, 2016

This is where the dynamics of managing and overseeing production processes get tricky. Project Management Challenges. This lack of CM visibility into OEM’s priorities, and OEM’s visibility into CM project statuses introduces a significant amount of risk into the supply chain and delivery dates. A Single Source of Truth.

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Manufacturing Innovation Software Review Estimate 92

LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This uncertainty could be driven by changing customer demands, seasonal events, resource availability or even by a lack of sufficient historical data or analogous projects for estimation. While project managers try to account for this uncertainty in the planning process , most traditional tools do a bad job of setting teams up for success.

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Executing Planning Estimate Engineering 94

Scoro

APRIL 29, 2022

As a project manager, you’ll set out the objectives, determine how and when these will be achieved, and identify the tasks your team must complete along the way. An accurate estimate of how long each task will take is essential to keep the plan on track. Every new project starts with a project plan. How do I create a project schedule?

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Software Review Monitoring Software Budget 98

LiquidPlanner

JULY 21, 2016

One report, in particular, got a major upgrade — it’s called the Project Workload report and it’s been the star of the show because it provides a simple and effective way to manage your project team and their assignments. To learn more tricks and skills, download our eBook, “ 5 Best Practices to Manage Project Resources Effectively.”.

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Initiating Estimate Closing Monitoring 140

LiquidPlanner

JULY 25, 2016

Traditionally geared towards the planning of large-scale Waterfall-type engineering projects, Gantt charts are now also being adapted for use in Agile and other more dynamic environments; they’re featured in just about every piece of project management and planning software out there. The expected finish [E] is the mid-point between the two.

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Estimate Software Review Engineering Agile 84

LiquidPlanner

MAY 1, 2018

This is the same whether it’s an external client and you work in an agency or consulting environment or your client is a team manager who sits down the hall, working for the same company as you. It’s fine to have some elements of uncertainty in a schedule, and using dynamic tools will help you manage that. Look at the Risks.

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Underperforming Technical Team Risk Management Software Review Estimate 60

LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Time tracking is a much richer story than the one we like to tell ourselves about the company counting up billing hours, or your manager being able to check up on you. It helps manage work, make decisions , stick to commitments and drive your career forward. In truth, time tracking is a powerful tool for everyone. Hopefully not.

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Underperforming Technical Team Estimate Construction Influencer 84

Wrike

APRIL 12, 2017

Where can you go to talk Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and Agile workflows to your heart’s content with other project management aficionados? There’s a treasure trove of valuable information available online for anyone looking to sharpen their project management skills. . Downloadable Guides & Ebooks. Cost: $400.

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Certification Technical Review PMI Risk Management 50

LiquidPlanner

JULY 20, 2016

If you want to be a strong project manager and leader, you need to know how to challenge and support your team members in equal measure. As many project managers put a high value on personal relationships and harmony, they end up holding themselves back when they have to deliver a message that could be interpreted as critical.

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Leankor

APRIL 13, 2021

Large-Scale B2B Telecom Projects: Managing Profitability from Order to Cash. And with the increasing volume, come higher stakes for managing and delivering them profitably. Opportunity Development: Managing Work Even Before the Project Work Begins. Effective order management is critical for B2B telecom providers.

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Telecoms Lean Risk Management Influencer 36

Function Point

JANUARY 22, 2015

End Your Creative Agency’s Project Management Chaos. There often comes a point when you realize that your current project management practices are no longer working for you, and you spend more time running around trying to fix problems than you do on growing your business. Life at a busy creative agency can be hectic. Missing Data.

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Estimate Risk Management Budget Risk 40

Function Point

JANUARY 22, 2015

End Your Creative Agency’s Project Management Chaos. There often comes a point when you realize that your current project management practices are no longer working for you, and you spend more time running around trying to fix problems than you do on growing your business. Life at a busy creative agency can be hectic. Missing Data.

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