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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. So how do we do it? Gertman et.

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4 Categories of Project Management Methods

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The four types of project management methods are: Data gathering and analysis methods Estimating methods Meetings and events Other (because it’s always worth having a bucket category for anything else, right?). SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats. We used to do root cause analysis a lot in the IT team.

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AI in Project Management: An Interview with Lloyd Skinner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

When those tasks are automated, Lloyd believes the project manager can focus on human-based tasks like business change, “knocking heads together to get decisions”, governance, and stakeholder engagement. You’re already seeing the development of some of their tools including AI within the planning function or bringing in chat bots too.

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100+ Project Management Terms: PM Terminology Explained

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B – Project Management Terms Backlog Backlog is a term from the Agile methodology Scrum, but is also used across industries to track every single thing that is needed to complete a product in development. Baseline A baseline is an estimate of the project’s scope, schedule and costs that is created during the planning stage.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

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Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? This is a tool used more often by public entities such as local governments for major public expenditures. A financing plan will have to be created, estimating the overall cost of each project. Related: Free Estimate Template for Excel.

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An Introduction to Construction Management

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This is accomplished by a combination of experience and education that directs the construction operations through the development of a detailed schedule and budget. Multiple award task order contract (MATOC) is often found in military or government construction work. Construction Contracts. Preconstrucion. Construction.