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5 Key Steps to Successful Project Management

Entry

Managing your first project can be daunting. To simplify things, here are five steps critical to the successful management of a project: Step 1: Initiate the Project by Defining the Scope. This phase typically begins with a business case where you will examine whether the project is feasible and important stakeholders will do their due diligence to help decide to approve the project or not.

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What Project Managers Can Learn from The Game of Cricket?

Celoxis

As an Indian, the cricket bug bit me early on with hours spent in games of street cricket, local club games and watching games on television with my friends. As a cricket fanatic and project management professional I can’t help but draw the parallel between the two. In this blog I hope to share my views on lessons project managers can learn from the game of cricket.

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Is There Value in Integrating Change Management and Project Management?

Entry

Manage changes to projects or initiatives within an organization on both a technical and human level. Project management is the process of supervising a project team through a series of tasks that ultimately reach completion of a defined goal with a specified target date for completion. On the other hand, change management is intended to support an organization’s adjustment to the changes due to either internal processes or external factors.

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management

Herding Cats

Mike Cohn, one of my favorite blogger and author, made a post awhile back about Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management. With some posts this week on tweeter about not needed project management or estimates to be the market leader (without says the market leader in what market), I thought it'd be good to revisit Mike's original post. You don’t need agile to avoid the seven deadly sins of pm from Glen Alleman.

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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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Is There Value in Integrating Change Management and Project Management?

Entry

Manage changes to projects or initiatives within an organization on both a technical and human level. Project management is the process of supervising a project team through a series of tasks that ultimately reach completion of a defined goal with a specified target date for completion. On the other hand, change management is intended to […]. The post Is There Value in Integrating Change Management and Project Management?

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The TimeCamp’s Guide To Invoicing

TimeCamp

In today’s article, we’re going to guide you through TimeCamp’s invoicing. Previously, you had a chance to get accustomed with Timesheets and Reports. With this guide, invoicing will become more friendly. You will no longer find it difficult and it will save your time. So follow along! What’s an Invoice? The definition of an “invoice”, according to the good old Wikipedia goes as follows: An invoice, bill or tab is a commercial document issued by a seller to a

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5 Key Steps to Successful Project Management

Entry

Managing your first project can be daunting. To simplify things, here are five steps critical to the successful management of a project: Step 1: Initiate the Project by Defining the Scope This phase typically begins with a business case where you will examine whether the project is feasible and important stakeholders will do their due […]. The post 5 Key Steps to Successful Project Management appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.

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When Business Dev think they’ve just brought in an awesome project but

The Digital Project Manager

The post When Business Dev think they’ve just brought in an awesome project but appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Critical Chain Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

People, professionally engaged in project management, have to know as many techniques, methodologies, and solutions as possible. One of the widespread ways to analyze projects is Critical Chain Project Management […].

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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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Network monitoring, security updates and more

Resource Guru

Another week bites the dust! This week is all about staying cool and hip. At least, that’s what the engineers tell themselves to feel better about another summer spent inside. We’ve upgraded all our libraries to their latest version and made our servers that much more resilient. We’ve now got Sauron’s eye gazing over our libraries sure to alert of the slightest weakness (let’s hope Frodo doesn’t show up).

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5 Secrets of Managing Shifting Project Priorities

Hydra

5 Secrets of Managing Shifting Project Priorities.

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Critical Chain Project Management

GanttPRO Project Management

People, professionally engaged in project management, have to know as many techniques, methodologies, and solutions as possible.

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The Salience Model for Stakeholder Classification

Deep Fried Brain

The Salience Model helps to identify the prominence of project stakeholders by classifying them according to 3 attributes - Power, Legitimacy, and Urgency. It provides the project managers a.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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3 Project Reporting Scenarios Your Senior Executives Will Love

Brightwork

One of the most common challenges faced by senior executives is a lack of visibility into ongoing and proposed projects. When this happens, projects are in trouble beyond rescue before anyone notices, approved projects may not be aligned with the strategic objectives, and good resources can be way under-or way over-allocated. It doesn’t have to be that way!