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Planning Performance Domain: How to Plan a Solution to Meet Your Goals

Online PM Courses

The purpose of planning is to figure out how to achieve what you want to achieve. So, the Planning Performance Domain must be central. . The post Planning Performance Domain: How to Plan a Solution to Meet Your Goals appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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A Better Microsoft Project for Time Modeling: Deadlines and the (Most?) Critical Path

MPUG

In my previous post, I explained that I’d be making a case in a series of articles for adding certain features to Microsoft’s Project for Desktop and Project for the web software. Here, I’d like to suggest making Microsoft Project better in terms of Time Modeling, which I see as the simplest way of working with the software. Time Modeling starts with identifying the deliverables.

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Expectations from Activity, Methods, Outcomes

Musings on Project Management

Back in yesteryear, I recall the first time I had a management job big enough that my team was too large for line-of-sight from my desk and location.Momentary panic: "What are they doing? How will I know if they are doing anything? What if I get asked what are they doing? How will I answer any of these questions?"Epiphany: What I thought were important metrics then I realized now become less.

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How are you allocating and returning contingency reserves?

Kiron Bondale

Most project managers will include some contingency reserves within their budget to offset the negative financial impacts of realized risks. Determining how much to put aside for a rainy day might be done from a top-down method such as using a flat percentage derived from past projects (e.g. low complexity projects will have 10% contingency whereas higher complexity ones will have 25% contingency) or a bottom-up approach based on assessing and aggregating the expected monetary value of the finan

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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.