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Luck has Little to Do With Achieving Positive Project Outcomes

LiquidPlanner

Finding a one-size-fits-all status reporting process and structure helps project leaders disseminate important information to every stakeholder in a shorter period of time with less effort. This project nirvana isn’t as elusive as the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow… it actually exists. Check out LiquidPlanner to see what I mean.

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3 Project Planning Considerations for the New Year

LiquidPlanner

You are very likely in the process of planning where your company is headed next year. These goals are translated into business unit priorities for each team through estimating planned projects, identifying process changes, and determining the people and resource needs to deliver on the plan. If not, it’s time to get started.

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March Project Madness

LiquidPlanner

Recent findings by PM Solutions indicated that 60 percent of firms use PPM processes and practices at the enterprise level. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience.

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April Fool’s Ms. Project Manager: 3 Tips for Unexpected Surprises

LiquidPlanner

Project management software can make the process of time estimation and dependency tracking more manageable. Brad Egeland is a Business Solution Designer and IT/PM consultant and author with over 25 years of software development, management, and project management experience. Document lessons learned.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

If you aren’t even sure if you’re on track to complete your goals, then project management software may be the key to helping your team stay organized and on schedule. But this process becomes cumbersome when you manually change the project plan. Brad is married, a father of 11, and living in sunny Las Vegas, NV.

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Falling in Love with Your Project Plans

LiquidPlanner

How can I get them to fall in love, as I often do, with the process deployed so that we together can achieve the euphoric feelings that come from delivering on time, on budget and as promised? Having the right PM tool in place is the first ingredient needed to fall in love with your project plans and processes. You’ll know when….

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Adopting Agile Practices Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

I question why they would implement a process that doesn’t yield the desired business benefits. The interesting aspect is that the early thinkers in the agile space were focused on uncovering the underlying theory of agile software development. This creates cognitive dissonance for me.

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