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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. What is Project Execution? Meet Regularly.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

So for the sake of argument, let’s compare them head to head, and may the best project management methodology win! Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. Both methodologies use boards as a visual tool to manage work.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Whether you’re tailoring your resume with project management skills , preparing for an interview, seeking to earn a certification , or simply seeking clarity in meetings, this list of top project management buzzwords should prove to be an invaluable tool.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Malinawan, PMP Choosing the appropriate tools and techniques to your advantage is essential for professionals working in the dynamic field of project management who must contend with issues like project budget constraints, tight deadlines, and constantly changing requirements. By: Meredith G.

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10 Free Change Management Templates for Excel and Word

ProjectManager.com

There are downloadable templates for every phase in the project life cycle. It’s often used as a tool to help organizations meet long-term goals, stay innovative and generally improve their processes. Project Plan Template That makes for a nice segue into the next on our list of free change management templates.

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Review Engaging stakeholders on projects

Henny Portman

Stakeholder engagement is the systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. In the stakeholder life cycle you see the following four steps: identification, early engagement, mature engagement and dissolution. . Engagement = understanding + action + influence.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Understanding plus action plus influence gives you engagement. Essentially, it’s all about working with people to build support so that you can achieve the intended outcomes for your project. If you put those aspects into a formula, you get this understanding plus action plus influence equals engagement.

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