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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? She’s even written the book on it. I love this question.

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Key Skill for Project Managers: Concept Development

Inloox

Thus, concept development is an important key skill for project managers and all those who want to become one. Competencies for concept development In project management, we generally use a very structured approach to work through a plan according to clear specifications. Information for the project team.

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Five Ways to Improve Project Communication

Project Risk Coach

From the beginning to the end of a project, the project manager and team must plan, execute, and deliver the required products and services while interacting with stakeholders. Projects involve interdependent relationships such as the sponsor and other leaders, the project manager and the project team, and users interacting with the systems.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 4): Implementation with InLoox

Inloox

In the first three articles of our series on product development with the Stage-Gate® process, we covered the theoretical basics. We also provide you with a free downloadable template of the idea-to-launch process described in part 3. The Stage-Gate® process as a phase-milestone plan. Activity: Stage 3: Development.

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It’s all in the Presentation

The Lazy Project Manager

And so the meal continued through a mediocre appetizer and on until the main course finally arrived … without Brussels sprouts (the good news) but also without anything in their place as requested (the bad news). Presentation can win the day. Simple Yet Stylish Project Visuals to Impress Your Audience. But it shouldn’t be so.

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How to Develop a Quality Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Then, we will explore how to develop a practical quality management plan. The Cost of Poor Quality First, we may not meet customer's needs and expectations. Fifth, your team's morale may suffer. This is often a result of poor quality requirements. Project managers and teams focus on meeting the customer's needs.

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How to Overcome 12 Common Requirements Mistakes

Project Risk Coach

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. If you want to improve your project success, improve your requirements processes. Poor requirements change process.