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Business Acumen for Project Managers [Free Checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you like the blog, you’ll love the newsletter – it’s full of. Your handover hasn’t been that great. The previous project manager might have moved. Newsletter The Girl’s Guide to PM Newsletter comes out about once a month.

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What We’re Reading: Planning, Procrastinating and Penning

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The most read blog post of the week: 8 Best Practices for Prioritizing Project Work for Your Team. Are You a Decision Procrastinator? Here’s How to Change That – Entrepreneur.com. 22 Lessons From Stephen King on How to Be a Great Writer – Businessinsider.com. Bonus Story! Like what you read? Have suggestions? Drop me a note @ mmerwin.

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Five Immutable Principles of Project Success and Project Failure

Herding Cats

I saw a blog post about the Top 5 Reasons Your Project Fails recently. They were all good reasons, but those reasons were symptoms, not causes. We seem to always identify the symptoms, but until we fix the cause of failure, those symptoms will return. The symptoms were: Priorities change. Incomplete requirements. Lack of Resources.

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How Agile and Scrum Changed the Way We Do Marketing

Function Point

There’s more to come in the next few weeks, so subscribe to the blog below to get the latest FP updates. As any marketer knows, internal requests for assets, collateral, copy, etc. Our next project is building an internal request process using an amazing tool called Function Point. Ian Walker. Director of Marketing.

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Analytics Best Practices: 5 Key Dashboard Design Principles

In this blog, we explore 5 key principles that exist to ensure you create a relevant dashboard that guides and simplifies the user experience, makes it as easy as possible to interpret what is presented no matter its complexity, and increases the adoption of BI.

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How Agile and Scrum Changed the Way We Do Marketing

Function Point

There’s more to come in the next few weeks, so subscribe to the blog below to get the latest FP updates. As any marketer knows, internal requests for assets, collateral, copy, etc. Our next project is building an internal request process using an amazing tool called Function Point. Ian Walker. Director of Marketing.

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10 Guidelines for Estimating Project Effort – Guest Post by Susanne Madsen

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Many projects start off on the wrong foot because the effort involved in delivering them has been underestimated. It is human nature to want to deliver something well and quickly, but underestimating the complexities of a project serves no one.

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What is Data Storytelling? The Value of Context and Narrative

This blog acts as a beginner’s guide to what data storytelling means for your company’s business intelligence and data analytics, explains the importance of leveraging it today, and illustrates how Yellowfin’s own set of storytelling tools can enrich your insight reporting efforts.