ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Business cases are prepared during the project initiation phase and their purpose is to include all the project’s objectives, costs and benefits to convince stakeholders of its value. Think of the business case as a document that is created during the project initiation phase but will be used as a reference throughout the project life cycle.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2022

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Whether it’s projects, products, or even whole companies, initiatives fail if they don’t properly address users’ needs. If you’re a founder, product strategist, or team leader looking to beat the competition and deliver for your customers, this article is for you! Poking into a competitor’s weaknesses.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

“New work is being assigned without being reviewed for priority or as part of the long term strategy/plan,” wrote one project manager, and many others added similar comments about the lack of organizational portfolio management, like these: Poor strategy planning hence poor implementation in order to realize benefits sought.

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Epicflow Blog

JUNE 10, 2022

Accordingly, they are more vulnerable to the consequences of risk-bearing events. When unmanaged, these risks can impact people’s safety and, to make matters worse, come down to considerable financial losses. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively?

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The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Whether you are just starting out, developing your project manager resume, or a seasoned professional, mastering the Project Management Buzzwords is non-negotiable. Agile team A cross-functional group of individuals (e.g., Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e.,

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 9, 2022

Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. Only by developing this clear picture can you resolve issues in upcoming projects. Get started for free. Project Evaluation Methods.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Don’t forget to include a risk management plan. Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was ‘estimated’ rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well.

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Leading Answers

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Telephone Game and Tree Swing cartoon are classic examples of how even well-meaning interpretations can be distorted, leading to bad outcomes. Team members move their own tasks, select new items to work on, and we can see the impacts on queue length, WIP and maybe cycle time or throughput. Are the assessment parameters complete? 

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on. Resource forecasting is a way to estimate the number of necessary resources to deliver your project successfully. That means having the ability to see who is tasked with what assignments and whether the team is sharing that workload fairly.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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Teamweek

APRIL 19, 2024

Project managers calculate anticipated ROI based on research and analysis of similar projects, market conditions, and potential risks. Calculating anticipated ROI helps them understand if a project is worth completing, evaluate risk, and prioritize profitable projects. Negative ROI Negative ROI is as bad as it sounds.

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The IIL Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. could simplify creating the project schedule and documenting underlying assumptions, constraints, and risks. However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan.

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Velociteach

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Gartner estimated that AI may replace 80% of project management activities by 2030. could simplify creating the project schedule and documenting underlying assumptions, constraints, and risks. However, the project manager, resource managers, and team members would still be required to review and validate the plan.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

An implementation plan guides your entire team through the who , what , when , and how of your project — providing clarity, alignment, and accountability for everyone involved. Identify tasks, estimate timings, and map a timeline Step 4. Define team roles and assign team members to tasks Step 5. Team accountability.

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Velociteach

APRIL 11, 2023

The project charter is a foundational deliverable created during the project’s initiation phase. The charter documents the project’s purpose, planned direction, and what is initially known. Developing the charter often requires negotiating with stakeholders to align their support for the project. define “success.”

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

Career-limiting because: No one wants to work with the project manager who emails the operational team a closure document and is never seen again. As I talk about in my course on how to write awesome project status reports , surprises are bad. If you don’t talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 15, 2017

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation. Benefits of Developing Project Management Skills.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs. So what can technology organizations do to achieve a higher rate of return on investment (ROI)? Value stream management (VSM) changes that.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In many cases it’s easier to work at a surface level, dealing with immediate issues and reacting to requests from the team and from executives. Similarly, the project charter and the project plan have little value if they haven’t been produced in collaboration with the team and if the stakeholders aren’t fully bought into them.

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Teamweek

JULY 29, 2022

You may have stellar skills and a fantastic team, but neither helps that sinking feeling when you have to ask a client for a deadline extension on a project. Maybe you didn’t factor in possible risks or pitfalls. Inaccurate time estimation is the cause of 25% of failed projects. Why is estimating time for tasks important?

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 24, 2019

In general, smaller projects have less risk. For example, you may engage your team to draw a context diagram and/or data flow diagrams early in the project. This exercise allows the team to understand the context of the project. Make it a priority to engage your key stakeholders and develop a project charter.

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Traxidy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As a Project Manager (PM), your initial blueprint and timeline set the foundation for the project. A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. A task should not be so large that it becomes difficult to estimate or manage. Why would project management involve any unplanned work?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

It’s probably fairer and less controversial to say that it was “estimated” rather than created totally randomly from scratch. But she was worried that other people were interpreting the estimate as definite fact. It’s giving your clients a poor service and doing a disservice to your team as well. Ethics Tip #4: Be Brave.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Portfolio managers must be able to prioritize tasks within projects, monitor their team’s performance, and allocate their resources effectively. A project is defined as an activity done by one or many team members over a specific timeframe that ends with a deliverable. This involves different teams. Plan Ahead.

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The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, it looks at the impact and application of the Buyer Value Equation framework for developing strategy and managing projects. These may include time, effort, risk, and opportunity costs. Price is the most obvious and tangible component of initial cost. For clarity, it discusses the pros and cons of the framework.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Coaches integrate ball players with different skills and experience to create winning teams. The best project managers know how to blend their knowledge in different areas such as scope management, cost management, and risk management. Develop Project Charter. Initiating process group. Develop Project Management Plan.

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nTask

MARCH 2, 2022

Cost management helps you to mitigate the risk of any surprise costs and budget constraints. In project management, Project Cost Management can be defined as: “The process of planning, allocating, estimating and controlling the project’s budget”. . You and your team would be completely blind on. Project Cost Estimation.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

First, however, you shall design an exercise for a Scrum team. This is how Sprint Planning works for a Scrum team: (1) First, the Product Owner points to the team’s Product Goal and introduces the business objective of the upcoming Sprint. (2) Alternatively, they create new work items.) (4) Source: [link].

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The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 13, 2023

It dives into the elements of a business case: identifying a problem or opportunity analyzing ways to solve the problem or seize the opportunity choosing the best option (or choosing to walk away) developing an implementation approach It proves a solid template and associated resources for building a business case and initial plan.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that when issues or problems arise, we have an arsenal of tools at our disposal, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA) , Ishikawa/fishbone diagrams, Management Oversight Risk Trees (MORT), and others. Teams often approach the 5 Whys method in a formal meeting or discussion group. Follow the incentives. The essayist, H.

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PM Basics

AUGUST 7, 2018

Micromanagement is a bad technique, isn’t it?” Micromanagement got a bad reputation. Can you say a hammer is a bad tool? When assigning, you deprive your project team the opportunity to self-organize. When you need to assign tasks – do it via your project management team , e.g. Team Leads.

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Online PM Courses

MAY 7, 2018

A robust risk culture goes beyond having a strong basic risk management process. Some of my readers may hope to influence the risk culture of their whole organization. For you, the right aspiration is to build a positive risk culture within your project. What is Risk Culture? Behaviors and Practices.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

According to some estimates , PMs spend 90% of their time communicating with team members, sponsors, and stakeholders. Easier to share information with teams and stakeholders. Used to ‘sell’ a project idea, convincing stakeholders to approve a particular initiative or idea. Project managers are born communicators.

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LiquidPlanner

JUNE 13, 2022

Talking about the problems before they happen sets your team up to collaborate on and pursue solutions before things go south. This plan outlines how often the team will check in on progress, who is responsible for which tasks, and what to do if a project’s timelines start to lag. Your first instinct is just to cancel it, right?

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