ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. They cover everything involved in the strategic planning process, from defining the vision statement to creating a roadmap and more. This is the start of strategic planning.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Trello vs. Asana is a likely matchup for anyone looking for the right project management software. Yes, Trello has project management features and Asana has a timeline and other tools to help manage tasks and teams. Both are popular work and project management software products, but only one will come out on top. What Is Trello?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. Sometimes, project managers create a risk breakdown structure during project initiation to see if the work is even viable. To manage risk correctly, you need to use project management software. Management.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 11, 2023

We’ll also discuss the process and offers some free templates to help in your next construction project. Construction management is led by a construction manager, who reports to the owner and is tasked with delivering a successful project. Construction Bidding Process. What Is Construction Management?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 12, 2023

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 30, 2022

They do everything from monitoring the budget to creating community programs to supervising other managers and developing better business practices. All program directors, however, are responsible for initiating goals based on strategic objectives and allocating resources as needed to achieve employer goals.

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Scoro

MARCH 11, 2024

There are lots available—each varying in features and complexity, but each helps you keep your team organized and on schedule. In this guide, we’ll highlight a list of project management tools and software that help you manage tasks, collaborate with your team, and manage resources.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Business cases are prepared during the project initiation phase and their purpose is to include all the project’s objectives, costs and benefits to convince stakeholders of its value. Think of the business case as a document that is created during the project initiation phase but will be used as a reference throughout the project life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Risk mitigation describes a process by which a project reduces its exposure to risk and works towards minimizing the likelihood of any issues arising during the project. It involves a process that we’ll explore in a moment but basically addresses the top risks in order to fully protect the project. What Is Risk Mitigation? Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 11, 2022

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. Does Agile project management for marketing really work? The state of a gile in marketing.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 16, 2020

However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind of enthusiasm for making process improvements in how we work together as well. So far, a turbulent pandemic, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sometimes stakeholders want something different from what they had requested during initiation. Teams get sick. Change control is the process used to manage all these variables. If change happens (which it always does) then it’s crucial that you have a mechanism in place to control that process. Weather gets in the way.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2019

Sometimes you have to deviate from your initial plan and take a shortcut. The concept of technical debt comes from software development where it refers to the costs of having to go back and resolve problems that arise because of an earlier decision to take the easy route, instead of the best one. What Is Technical Debt?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It has a plan that’s executed by a team with a deadline with the final deliverable being the event. Event management is the process of creating an event. They initiate the plan, deciding on essentials such as when and where the event will take place. ProjectManager is online software that can be easily shared.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on. It’s a tool used by project managers and their teams to see if they have the resources they need to complete the assigned tasks in a project. There are project management software solutions that address resource forecasting.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 21, 2021

Just as a project has a charter to define its scope, so too must your team have a charter to put their work in context. Teams need to know the who, what, why, when and how of the project, and a team charter is the perfect way to feed them that information. Let’s explore how to put a team charter together.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 8, 2023

In addition, 89% of consumers moved to rivals after having a bad customer experience [ii]. User stories can help project teams put customer needs at the heart of what they build. Apply this in your projects Code software to add in customers’ names and default to their location. year on year [iii].

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 4, 2021

PRINCE2 is process based, with processes covering starting a project, directing a project, initiating a project, managing stage boundaries (sign off and moving between stages), controlling a stage, managing product delivery (there is an emphasis on product based planning) and closing a project. And what are the weak points?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 5, 2020

The latter requires that leaders be globally fluent and defend against biases, strive to build more cohesive teams, be proactive, scout opportunities for the individuals they lead and help them grow. The evaluation of the new leaders should dictate the subject matter and process of the training.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Contracting for Agile software development projects continues to be a major organizational impediment. Your legal department is trained to protect the firm from all the bad things that can happen when the unexpected occurs. Combine that tendency with management’s desire to protect their jobs when the bad things happen.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 4, 2022

The scrum methodology was developed as a response to rigid project management approaches such as the waterfall method, which didn’t adapt to the needs of agile product and software development teams. The bad news, it’s hard to master. Scrum is part of agile software development and teams practicing agile.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 2, 2021

But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The team and client know the mission statement, the vision statement and the project plan. It’s all part of the meeting agenda and makes sure the project team starts off on the right foot. It sets up project success.

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Scrum.org

JULY 18, 2023

This article describes an A-type ecosystem for (software) product development, the prevalent dynamics in it, and the solutions to improve performance using Org Topologies™ mapping. At the A-level, as per the Org Topologies™ map, the work is done by the teams at the Feature level. These teams work with Scrum.

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Planio

MAY 20, 2024

Whether you’re a smaller team, early-stage startup, or even an established enterprise, the success of your business depends on making constant changes to adapt to your customer’s needs. Project managers bring order to chaos, help align cross-team projects, wrangle budgets and schedules, and so much more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The output of using these approaches generally ends up being talked about in meetings or included in reports. Producing the SWOT analysis for our 3-year plans for the IT team was one of the highlights of my year – my boss might be surprised to hear me say that! SWOT stands for: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 26, 2021

Creating a construction budget, therefore, is one of the most important pieces when developing a construction plan. A construction budget is an estimate of the money required to take a construction project from initiation to closure, including all associated costs and expenses that are accrued during the building process.

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Wrike

JUNE 11, 2023

Optimizing efficiency and productivity is crucial for success, and this is where workflow software comes into play. By automating and streamlining your business processes, workflow software can help you save time, reduce errors, and improve overall productivity. Business Process Management is not a new concept.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

I told him honestly that I didn’t see any possibility of using his software at work, but that I was revising Social Media for Project Managers for a second edition (now published as Collaboration Tools for Project Managers) and that there would potentially be some scope in learning more about their product for that. Not being truthful.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. The following is a basic outline to follow when starting to develop your business case. Collect all of them, figure out what determines if you’ve successfully met them and report on the results. Business description/mission statement. Product or service. Marketing strategy.

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PM Basics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. Risk management process is a structured approach to identifying, assessing, addressing, and controlling risks. What are the 7 Risk Management Processes.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It has a plan that’s executed by a team with a deadline with the final deliverable being the event. Event management is the process of creating an event. They initiate the plan, deciding on essentials such as when and where the event will take place. ProjectManager is online software that can be easily shared.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This one is for software developers. ” In particular, I’m thinking about the notion of keeping the software design clean at all times. Ron Jeffries has an article describing how fundamental refactoring is in the basic professional practice of a software developer. ” Too bad.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

This year, I’m going to spotlight an initiative called #CelebratingWomeninProjectManagement launched by Elise Stevens , CEO of FixMyProjectChaos. Stevens is a podcaster, author, speaker and works with women in project management to reinforce within themselves their true value to their team, company and industry.

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