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An Introduction to Vendor Management

ProjectManager.com

Most projects dip into outside resources to achieve their objectives. It’s becoming increasingly rare for any one organization to have all the goods and services necessary to complete the work they’ve set out for themselves. That’s where vendor management comes in. The practice of vendor management enlists vendors—or businesses and individuals who provide essential goods and services—to help execute their project.

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What Do Project Managers Do?

Prince2

If you work in construction, IT, manufacturing, architecture, chemicals or any other major industry, you’ve almost certainly come across people with the job title ‘project manager’. Unlike some other positions within your industry, say site foreman or quantity surveyor, the moniker ‘project manager’ doesn’t really indicate what this person does. Yet, the project manager, PM, might just be the most important person on any specific task.

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Getting Things Done (GTD) Method and 4 Best GTD Apps & Tools

nTask

Do you ever feel overburdened by the weight of all the things you have to get done with during the day or during the week? We all do! Believe us when we say this, each one of us thinks, at least once a day, that maybe 24 hours of the day weren’t put in place for us to do this much of work. Or, maybe we need to manage our tasks better? Definitely the latter!

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Introducing Todd Talks

LiquidPlanner

From the Desk of Todd Humphrey. Since joining LiquidPlanner 12 months ago, I’ve put my competitive spirit, passion for sports, and 20 years of technology startup experience to good use. By taking the crown jewels of our technology—scheduling, tracking, and reporting—really exploring the opportunities in front of us, and talking to so many of our customers, I really feel like we can take our company to a new level.

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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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What is a Functional Specification? | Video

Online PM Courses

On software and technical projects, there is a chain of project definition deliverables, and one of them is the Functional Specification. So, what is a Functional Specification? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of Online PM Courses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes. Project Management in Under 5. What is a Functional Specification? You may also like… What is a Project Definition?

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How to Create the Best Project Overview for Your Team

Teamweek

I think we can all agree that it isn’t always the best plan to charge into a project without any inclination of what’s going on first. For that reason, project managers usually create a project overview to help them get organized and see the big picture. Because the project overview can make or break your project, let’s go over some of the details involved in creating this powerful tool so that you can have your team ready for the next big project.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

For companies where software is important to business operations and to the products that they market, excellence in software is a vital business goal. However, software has long been one of the most troublesome technologies of the 20 th century, and one that has long been resistant to executive control One of the main reasons that software is difficult to control is because it has been difficult to estimate software projects and to measure software quality and productivity in an accurate way.

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How to Prepare for a One on One Meeting

Appfluence

Importance of the One on One Meeting. When viewing the 40 or so hours that each employee has every week as precious resources, any time spent in a well run one on one meeting is a fantastic use these resources. This is because both people can walk away with so much insight that they did not have before. Aside from gaining new information that may have been difficult to get in a team meeting or via other forms of communication, one on one meetings give two people the opportunity to think outside

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Importing people into Resource Guru using Zapier

Resource Guru

You can now use our Zapier integration to import a list of people into your Resource Guru account. Read the step-by-step guide below to find out how. Before you get started: It is not currently possible to send custom fields data for your resources when import using the template. Zapier wasn’t designed for large data imports, and you may get errors if you try to import hundreds of rows of resources all at once.

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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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One on One Meeting Template

Appfluence

How to Use the One on One Meeting Template. You may have read our article about preparing for a one on one meeting. If so, great! Now we want to give you some tips and a template to help you make the most of the meeting: Q1 Status Review. The first part of the one on one meeting is status review. As you can see above, in the one on one meeting template the whole first quadrant is set aside for process.

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6 Tips For Team Management

Runrun.it

In business parlance, the focus of management is to remain in business irrespective of the complexity that bedevils it. Success demands to stay competitive, but competition is merely a means to ends and not the ends itself. As such, management and managers, therefore, do more to remain relevant; reacting to business vagaries, the oddity of […].

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Avengers, ACemble! 2

ActiveCollab

“So,” Tony addressed the table, “what have we all learned since we adopted a Project Management system these past few months ?” Unlike the rest of his team, he wasn’t wearing his regular costume for the meeting, but his usual civilian clothing - a bespoke three-piece suit. Coupled with the way he cocked his head in mock empathy, as if speaking to a room full of toddlers, it only served to make him appear even more conceited than usual.

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