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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups. Initiating Phase. Learn More!

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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Teamhood Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The software is aimed at firms who want to add agility to improve time to market. In my experience, those companies are proactive, project-led businesses like agencies, engineering, software and manufacturing firms. You can group columns so they represent different themes, steps, teams, whatever, within a process or list.

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Runn Software Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s resource planning software that is perfect for professional services and firms that would benefit from the transparency of seeing where time is being spent. I’ve spent a long time looking at a number of resource management and capacity planning software tools and I loved this one. People planner. Do we have capacity?

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Software Development Estimation: A Quick Guide

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Software development estimation is an essential part of many projects. Despite its importance, software development estimation is often overlooked. Let’s explore how software development estimation works and its techniques and tools. What Is Software Development Estimation? Learn more.

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Software review: Apollo [2021]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can group projects by category, which could be useful if you needed to separate projects by client, for example. This is where Apollo stumbles a bit it doesn’t follow the ‘normal’ conventions of groups of tasks (though you can add them to projects) or the ability to link to milestones. It’s easy to create a new project.

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Struggling to implement PM software? You’re not alone

Rebel’s Guide to PM

GetApp’s survey of over 1,000 managers, decision-makers and SME owners has revealed that despite the proven benefits project management software brings to businesses, more than half of employees opposed their managers’ suggestion to implement PM software. The next most common reason was ‘budget reasons’ (haven’t we heard that before?),