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Project Management Software Comparison: A Strategic View

The Strategic Project Manager

This post takes a strategic view of the project management software landscape. First, it identifies a dozen key features of PM software. Then it compares functionality across those key features for 10 popular PM software vendors. Most tools enable tracking of risk, impact, and mitigation plan to manage risks and handle issues.

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The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work

Traxidy

The Art of Mastering Project Surprises: Easy Strategies for Managing Unplanned Work By: Steve McBroom, Founder, Traxidy (Click to follow me on LinkedIn) In this post, we will review the importance of working through project issues and the associated unplanned project tasks, as they arise, and provide effective strategies to manage them.

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?

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We Asked, You Answered: Your Top Project Management Resource Issues

LiquidPlanner

Most have counted on traditional project management software to align their projects and teams, but they have consistently attributed four common problems to their failure: resources, visibility, alignment of priorities, and scheduling issues. We are wasting a lot of time due to lack of communication.

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The Simple Way to Fix Resource Management Issues

LiquidPlanner

Managers want to know when the team will be able to take on new work, but they are tired of creating plans that don’t survive the week, due to new requests, changing priorities or any multitude of reasons that mean you’re dealing with uncertainty every day. Wasting time due to poor communication. That’s quite a list!

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7 Questions to Ask Your Team for Better Project Engagement

LiquidPlanner

Ultimately, all project stakeholders will contribute to achieving what is promised so start early with a candid and realistic review of what can be delivered when and for how much. Today’s project management software delivers visualizations of roadblocks before they occur so you can course-correct before things derail. Priceless! .

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.