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If you aren’t using PRINCE, or if you want some general guidance as well about project closure documents and so on, read this next: How to close a project. This involves transferring ownership of the products to the operational team, and makes it clear that the project team are no longer responsible for them. The project manager and the team will be able to move on to their next assignment. How Does PRINCE2 Handle Closing a Project? MORE
Today, I’m handing the blog over to Leigh Espy. In this piece, Leigh talks about how to tailor your presentations for C-suite level executives. As you grow in your project management career, you’ll be called upon to make various presentations. Presentations to executives can be very different than presenting project information to peers. How C-Suite and Other Project Management Presentations are Different. Go immediately to your bottom line. MORE
A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot. MORE
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Have you wondered if project management was a good career path for you, and if so, just how to become a project manager ? And questions about just how to get that great project management job. If so, I’m here to answer those questions. Attention to detail. MORE
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In reality, you might have an internal kick off meeting for just your in-house team resources, and then another one with the client, when you are ready to share project information with them (and if you have a client). It is your chance to set the tone for the work to come, to start to build a culture of success, and – most importantly – to establish common goals. When to hold a kick off meeting. I look forward to seeing you there. How To MORE
Creating a project budget involves: being able to identify all the items that are going to cost money building a complete picture of what you need to spend getting approval for that amount. I have left items out of several project budgets and I can tell you it’s pretty embarrassing having to ask your project sponsor to approve spending from the reserves because you messed up the budget. Direct costs are going to form the bulk of your project budget. MORE
And with everything else happening in the world, it can feel like a challenge to keep a positive attitude at work when team members are preoccupied or just don’t want to work on your project. Someone got in touch recently with that exact point, and asked: “How can you maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project?”. Listen to their woes. You might need to do this away from them. MORE
You are also responsible for your team, and making sure they have the skills required to do their jobs. Part of a resource management plan is to build the skills of your team. Normally we’d think of that in terms of the technical skills they need to deliver the project, like taking a course in a programming language or brushing up their system maintenance skills. However, you should also consider how good they are at doing the work of projects – project management. MORE
Ask 10 different risk management experts to define emerging risks, and you will likely receive different points of view. In this article, let's define emerging risks, discuss ways to identify them, and look at different ways to manage these risks. Click to Tweet. MORE
Tolerances are an important part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. You need to have the authority and freedom of action to be able to change the direction the work is going in. So how do you balance your need to make small changes on a regular basis and the sponsor’s role of being the ultimate decision-maker about changes? Welcome to the wonderful world of project tolerances. How are tolerances set? MORE
And one of the most important things to communicate is your risks. How do you communicate risks? How would you like for me to communicate with you? Find the person who has the appropriate knowledge of the risk and the skills to analyze, monitor, and respond to the risk. MORE
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When you are trying to calculate percentage complete in a Gantt chart, you need to take into account various different figures, and get lots of information from other people. There are simple ways to track percent complete on your project, so you know what to input into your software. In this article we’ll look at 3 methods to track percent complete. It’s a way to track project progress – quite an important part of how to manage a project. MORE
Estimating successfully is all about getting the right amount of funding to enable you to successfully deliver a project. But creating a project budget that works – delivering worthwhile value for a client at a cost that’s still going to make a respectable profit for the agency is a tricky balance, so how do you do it right? The post How To Estimate Projects: The Complete Guide To Project Budget & Cost Estimation appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. MORE
I used to think project communication plans were a waste of time for projects that. The post How To Create A Project Communication Plan (with FREE template) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Communication How-to Guides How-to Project Planning Topics MORE
But that’s EXACTLY what it’s intended to be. It’s structured in a way that allows participants to quickly talk through various topics they choose in a short amount of time. How is a Lean Coffee better than that? Read on and find out how a lean coffee is a different kind of meeting than anything you may have experienced. You may even want to host one yourself. The original use was to support attendees in adopting agile work approaches. DURATION: 1 to 1.5 MORE
Are you actually doing what you want to accomplish with your sprint planning meetings? Here’s an overview of sprint planning meetings, why and how to do them, and a free sprint planning meeting agenda template. The post How To Run A Sprint Planning Meeting Like A Boss (+ Meeting Agenda) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Agile How-to Guides How-to Managing And Controling How-to Project Planning Topics MORE
A decision log template in project management is the document you use to fill in all the decisions made relating to your project. Decisions are taken in all kinds of settings: meetings, on email, when you bump into someone in the corridor… From experience I know that it’s a) hard to remember what decision you took, and b) difficult to find information hidden in meeting minutes to remind yourself of why that decision was taken. MORE
Are you expected to get something done without really knowing what it is that you are supposed to be doing? However, that’s not the case for people who are in a more predictive environment without the structures and culture of agile to support project delivery. MORE
What are project controls, and how can they help in risk management? Learn how to control projects by leveraging your existing project management reports. The post Project Controls Simplified: How To Manage And Control Your Projects appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. How-to Guides How-to Managing And Controling PM Skills & Best Practices Risk Management MORE
Knowing how to network doesn’t come naturally for most pople. But sometimes knowing how to network can be tricky. But you can learn how to network in a way that feels natural and authentic. Read on to learn how. Read on to learn how. MORE
It simply consumes resources and carries on because no one has the foresight (or courage) to kill it off. It simply consumes resources and carries on because no one has the foresight (or courage) to kill it off. How to spot a zombie project. Projects and operational work coexist on large programmes so it is quite likely that at some point in your project management career you will be asked to get involved with operational work. How To MORE
The post How To Write A Project Scope Statement That’ll Save Your Bacon appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. How-to Guides How-to Project Planning Scope Management Topics MORE
The beginning of a project: the calm before the storm or a manic rush to get things sorted ready for the core work to start? Whichever way it happens, the start of a project is critical to its future success. From estimating and scoping, to assigning resource, defining requirements, briefing in your team, the all important first meeting with the client—there’s a minefield of tasks out there which can shape how your project develops. MORE
. Delegating tasks is something every project manager needs to get good at. If you want to do more work, you need more people doing the work. It’s not rocket science to realize that the project manager can’t do all the tasks. There just aren’t enough hours in the day (and you probably don’t have the skills to do everything anyway). Knowing how to delegate tasks isn’t something I was ever taught. This article is my complete guide to delegating tasks. MORE
How To Create A Responsibility Assignment Matrix That Actually Works appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. How-to Guides How-to Project Planning PM Skills & Best PracticesYou hear the term RACI, and inwardly groan. Far from the slightly exciting sounding acronym, The post RACI Made Simple. MORE
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. When we connect the goals of a project to those intrinsic motivators, we see amazing results. People will go further, think more creatively and consider more options to get the project done. So how do we do it? How do you get engagement? MORE
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Every action taken in one project needs to feed into the next with fluidity and poise, and when done right, a skilled portfolio manager can make it seem like no trouble at all. How to Know If You’re Managing Multiple Projects. That’s how they’re managed. Here’s how. MORE
Most projects don’t deliver their original scope: 54% of projects fail to deliver the agreed-upon functionality. Scope creep in project management is where additional requirements are added to the project, beyond what was originally agreed and these additions are not formally authorized. MORE
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