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Entering Actuals During the Tracking Cycle

MPUG

In my recent Tracking Starts with a Status Date article, a four-step tracking cycle was defined. It includes setting the status date, entering actuals, rescheduling incomplete work, and resource leveling the remaining schedule. VBA macros are used to parse this data and populate tracking fields in Project.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Kanban boards allow you to assign tasks to your team members and track their progress as they go through each workflow step until completion. ProjectManager’s kanban boards offer advanced planning, scheduling and tracking features to help you manage your team’s workload and track their performance. What Is Kanban? What Is Scrum?

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Construction Cost Management: Managing Construction Costs

ProjectManager.com

Effective construction cost management ensures that the spending throughout the project life cycle is on track. You can manage resource costs, set a baseline and then track your planned costs against your actual costs in real time to quickly catch any overspending. That’s why construction cost management is so important.

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"Ship It Fast": What It Means, Why It Matters, And How To Improve

Scrum.org

A team may believe they’re “shipping fast” because they’re deploying every day to a test environment, but not actually to production. And what is “fast”, actually? So it’s always important to get clear on when you’re actually “Shipping Fast”, and when you’re doing something that may look like it, but isn’t.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript. Hello, everybody.

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15 Clever Ways to Save Time at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This takes a little time but saves eons of time in the actual meeting, because you’ll be able to use the information you have gathered to head off conflict and bring the group to a decision far more quickly. Ask them if they are still coming and if they have anything for the agenda. (Do Do you need a template for that? Trust your processes.

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Rescheduling Incomplete Work As Part of a Project’s 4-Step Tracking Cycle

MPUG

In the first two articles of this series, a four-step tracking cycle was defined. It includes setting the status date , entering actuals , rescheduling incomplete work, and resource leveling the remaining schedule. This article addresses the third step in the cycle: rescheduling incomplete work. A Simple Example.

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