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Project tracking guide

Binfire

Your most important duty as a project manager is to track the project’s progress relentlessly. That is why project tracking tools are so essential for project management. When it comes to project tracking, the definition gets a little bit murky. What are you tracking, exactly? . Are you tracking the progress of each task in the project over time?

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Ask a PM: How to Get a Stakeholder to Take Action on a Problem

LiquidPlanner

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Project Estimation Methods

Planview

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 1,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. Much like a GPS uses satellite information on traffic patterns to calculate the remaining time on your trip, project estimation methods help you maintain a realistic project schedule.

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Aristotle Summed Up My Year Pretty Well…

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.” — Aristotle Suffering is defined as undergoing pain, distress or hardship. In 2018, I checked the box on all three…and loved every damn minute of it! First of all, I’m a runner. I signed up for a trail marathon and got in via a lottery.

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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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Dangling participle

Musings on Project Management

Still, as Hanson Baldwin summed up the Italian campaign, “All roads led to Rome, but Rome led nowhere.” Hanson Baldwin, Historian describing the WW II campaign in Italy, 1943 - 44. Accomplishment without purpose -- a dangling achievement And, the lesson for project managers is: Beware the strategic objective that isn't actually strategic at all. It looks strategic at the moment It's called.

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Stressed Out? 7 Ways to Boost Work Productivity By Saying “No”

Proofhub

Being productive with your day is not a rocket science, but it demands a lot of hard work and an exceptional level of time management skills. The modern workplace is moving at a lightning speed and we all get only 24 hours a day to match up with it. Now, feeling a little stressed or underproductive at the end of the day is absolutely normal. In fact, it has happened to even the most productive and skilled professional.

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Project Manager Salary Statistics 2019

ProjectManager.com

A project manager’s job is intricately complex, and they’re often paid well due to the difficulty of the position. No matter where a project manager might work in the United States, the role requires a great deal of attention to detail, planning, foresight, access to the right tools and the ability to execute in order to rise to the top of the profession.

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