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Project Monitoring and Control: Tools & Steps

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All are important, especially project monitoring. Project monitoring and control is how a project manager ensures the plan they’re implementing with the project team goes off without a hitch. Project controlling involves a lot of steps to thoroughly monitor the project schedule, resources and costs.

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Meeting Planning Steps: How to Plan a Meeting

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It’s understandable why people often moan at the prospect of a meeting. But meetings are important. To remove the stigma attached to meetings, learn meeting planning. What Is Meeting Planning? Meeting planning sets the agenda for the meeting. Why Is Meeting Planning Important? Learn more.

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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

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That’s why a kickoff meeting is so important. A kickoff meeting puts everyone on the same page. It’s all part of the meeting agenda and makes sure the project team starts off on the right foot. What Is a Project Kickoff Meeting? A kickoff meeting is usually led by the project manager. It sets up project success.

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How to Monitor Daily Progress as a Project Manager

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People love to monitor everything, from their weight to their finances, so it’s only natural that managers want to monitor daily progress on their projects. In Review – How to Monitor Daily Progress as a Project Manager. Everyone is always monitoring everything, from their weight to their finances. Why not a project?

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Performing Proficient Portfolio Management Against All Odds

Speaker: Ordonna Sargeant — PMP Staff Research Program Manager, Twitter | Scrum Master | Author | Speaker | ATP PMP Instructor | Adjunct Professor | PM Content Creator

Project portfolio management assumes you will need a tool belt filled with methodologies, processes, and KPIs for collecting, assessing, ranking, monitoring, and managing all potential projects. The question is how do we as PMs meet the goal of helping key stakeholders and executives make informed decisions and maximize value?

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12 Questions for Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

In this article, I am providing questions that can help you in monitoring project risks and as a result, achieve better results. In my last article, we looked at What Every Project Manager Should Know About Monitoring Risks where we reviewed the definition for Monitor Risk. ” When Should We Monitor Project Risks? .”

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10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Project Meetings

Project Risk Coach

I often hear people say, “Our company has too many meetings. The meetings last too long and they are woefully mismanaged.” And yet, meetings can be an indispensable tool for accomplishing work. Let’s look at 10 ways to improve project meetings and achieve greater results. 10 Project Meeting Boosters.