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Risk: the second thing you do

Musings on Project Management

Managing risk? Can you imagine there's risk to manage? Here's the second thing you do: Evaluate the slack. What's to evaluate? You might think the most important thing about slack is how much is there; what do I have to work with? Nope Whatever you've got, the most important thing is sequence and position.

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How Can Creative Project Management Software Minimize Different Issues in Web Design Teams?

ProProfs Project Management

Managing a web design team is no easy thing to do. Depending on a client, web designers might face different challenges at every stage of the process, from initial briefing to presenting the final result. However, the main and most crucial challenge is to set up a process. Setting up a web design process requires thorough planning and management. A project manager needs to make sure that their team won’t miss the deadlines, won’t blow the budget, and won’t struggle with cooperation and communica

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How to Carry Out a Schedule Risk Assessment

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

One of the key roles in any project core-team is an expert planner and scheduler. I was recently called upon to carry out an external review of a project schedule. This was a two year $20m project to deliver a turn-key manufacturing facility to a new customer. The project was two months in, and already two weeks late to schedule. Understandably management was becoming nervous about late delivery penalties.

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Case Study: Switching from Waterfall to Duration & Price Contracts

The Digital Project Manager

Executive Summary Switching your contracts from waterfall to duration and price can completely change how. The post Case Study: Switching from Waterfall to Duration & Price Contracts appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Regression Test Plan Template

Techno-PM

Introduction Regression testing is performed after making a functional improvement or repair of software. Its purpose is to determine if the change has affected other aspects of the software. Regression tests give assurance to systems management, developers, testers and users that new system is not impacted any way by the change. Download This Template Segment of Regression Test Plan Template Necessity of Regression Testing plan Regression testing helps detect errors in the development cycle, th

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Comment on Selling your Project to Employees by Rich

Gina Abudi PM

Hi Gina, with the (justifiably) increased attention on sustainability, I would assert that you can gain buy-in by showing them how the project is aligned with mission/vision/values of the enterprise that in turn are economic, ecological, and social. I blog about this extensively at PMI’s projectmanagement.com*, and I’ve actually worked this into my graduate-level PM courses at Boston University with an assignment that asks students to do just what you cover above.

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Online Project Management Courses to Consider for Project Managers

GanttPRO Project Management

You will definitely get your place under the sun if you will have a few project management certifications under your belt. Where to get them?

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Comment on Selling your Project to Employees by Gina

Gina Abudi PM

Thank you for your comment, Rich. I absolutely agree that we get buy-in by showing alignment. I love that you are doing an assignment at BU on this!

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4 Signs Your Project Intake Process Is Outdated

Wrike

Remember the episode of “I Love Lucy” where she’s working in a chocolate factory and can’t keep up with the influx of chocolate coming down the conveyor belt? ?. Sometimes that’s how it feels when you’re trying to handle the deluge of incoming projects. In a survey from RingCentral on communication app overload in the workplace, 70% of workers said the volume of communication they receive is a top challenge.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Facebooks Ads vs Google Ads: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Are you interested in promoting your business online? If so, you’ve probably heard that you should start with either Facebook or Google ads. They’re both popular platforms, and they offer ad space, so they’re probably the same, right? This is an incorrect assumption, but it’s something I regularly hear from clients. In this post, I will break down Facebook ads vs Google ads and outline several differences between these two advertising platforms, so you are better informed about your options befo