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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

You are very likely in the process of planning where your company is headed next year. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the people and resource needs to deliver on the plan. Accurately Estimating Time.

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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Besides simply saving time by repurposing an effective project plan, you also will be less likely to overlook important tasks or input inaccurate task estimations. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Software like LiquidPlanner makes it easy to create an action plan against your goals. LiquidPlanner helps you estimate timelines by listing tasks and then applying ranged estimations. But this process becomes cumbersome when you manually change the project plan. What are your mid-year milestones?

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April Fool’s Ms. Project Manager: 3 Tips for Unexpected Surprises

LiquidPlanner

It may be helpful to break the project into smaller tasks and assignments to estimate project deliverables and resource needs better. Get input from your team and project stakeholders before committing to a timeline to ensure everyone is aligned on estimates and priorities. Not once in 20+ years of leading substantial projects.

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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

How can I get them to fall in love, as I often do, with the process deployed so that we together can achieve the euphoric feelings that come from delivering on time, on budget and as promised? Having the right PM tool in place is the first ingredient needed to fall in love with your project plans and processes. What’s missing?

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

They may also be writing user stories, using burn-down charts, and practicing agile estimating and planning. I question why they would implement a process that doesn’t yield the desired business benefits. There is a plan available, which you can explore on our website or by reading our white paper.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here are my collected works, presentations, briefings, journal papers, articles, white papers, and essays, used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've developed and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems domain. Managment Processes. Presentations and Briefings.

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