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Use This Free Project Status Report Template for Fast and Easy Project Reporting

Project Bliss

Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash. The Project Status report is a great way to provide lots of information about your project performance in a concise format. It includes updates on project progress, health, issues, and items that need attention. And using a project status report template will make it even easier. So I’m giving you one. A. After all, your boss expects you to know what’s going on with your project.

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How to Reduce Risk Evaluation Bias

Project Risk Coach

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.com. We all have biases; many are helpful. In projects, we have biases towards successful projects and motivated teams. If a project sponsor says that schedule is the top priority, the project team has a bias towards meeting the schedule. However, some biases are harmful. Stakeholders may attempt to sway project decisions in unfair ways.

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5 Easy Ways to Keep Tasks Out of Your Inbox

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, 5 Easy Ways to Keep Tasks Out of Your Inbox , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Thanks to Sendtask for sponsoring this article on email management tips! Are you guilty of using your email inbox as a To Do list? You get sent a message that needs actioning, but right now you’ve got to dash to a meeting or deal with a query.

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Distributed Teams: What Challenges Occur and What Tools to Use

GanttPRO Project Management

We live in a world where crucial changes happen. Traditional approaches that were common years ago step aside or even disappear forever. These shifts happen everywhere. And of course, the […].

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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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Treat Cause Not The Symptom

Herding Cats

When gaps in performance, benefits shortfalls, unanticipated cost, schedule, and performance variances, faulty products, or any undesirable outcome, blame the process, not people. Root Cause Analysis is the means to fix the cause, rather than treat the symptom. [1][2]. Anytime you hear a description of some problem - a symptom - say bad management, misuse of some process, or poorly performing people issue, ask what is the root cause ?

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The price of value?

Musings on Project Management

It's commonly said "value is in the eye of the beholder", meaning: the price of value is what someone is willing to pay. Fair enough. No willing buyer: no practical value. Many potential buyers: let demand drive the value (Some would call this phenomenon bubble economics.

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The Top 3 Trends of Business World in 2018

TimeCamp

Source: www.chanty.com/blog/ Business World in 2018 The year 2017 is long gone. It has brought many changes and new concepts into our lives. And as the years pass and some of these concepts stay with us, other disappear or blear when new trends appear. Every year brings new, often undiscovered notions, theories, or ideas. Let’s see what are the top 3 predicted trends of the business world in 2018. #1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) For the last year, there has been an intense debate over the

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Why the Stage Gate Process will Make You a Better Project Manager

Online PM Courses

The Stage Gate Process gets too little love from Project Managers. Yet it has the potential to transform your project management, deliver more successful projects, and make you a better project manager. A Stage Gate is also known by many other names: Phase Gate (PMBOK 6th Edition). Gateway (PRINCE2). Boundary Gate (most pleasing expression of the metaphor).

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How to avoid inconsistency in project performance

Hydra

How to avoid inconsistency in project performance. Knowing how to manage professional services projects in a consistent way in order to avoid inconsistency in project performance is one of the challenges highlighted by the TSIA in their Top Professional Services Business Challenges.

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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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Episode 107: Real leaders set SMARTer goals

PM for the Masses

In the final episode of our series on Self-Leadership, Cesar and Traci discuss 4 steps to setting and achieving your goals and becoming the person you want to become. In episode 106, we talked about CREATING your purpose by intentionally deciding on the PERSON you want to be and become. Now, you can use these […] In the final episode of our series on Self-Leadership, Cesar and Traci discuss 4 steps to setting and achieving your goals and becoming the person you want to become.