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Having the ability to allocate resources more effectively to every project and respond rapidly to changes in workload are key to maximizing employee utilization and increasing your billable hours without increasing headcount. MORE
Failure is an unavoidable part of any project process: it’s the degree of failure that makes the difference. But a systemic collapse will derail the whole project. Project managers can learn as much, if not more, from failed projects as they can from successful ones. MORE
is controlled by the people who run it “ This is certainly an appropriate meaning of the phrase when applied to corporate governance, but is not the most empowering vision for how projects need to be governed. Tagged: governance , project decision making , Project performance. MORE
Some organizations lack clarity about who approves the project change requests. On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. So, who should approve project change requests? MORE
With project management field reaching new heights each day, it has become imperative that one must possess a distinct set of essential project management skills to achieve project success. One of the most essential project management skills has to be communication. MORE
Perhaps your subject matter expert has resigned or project costs have increased, whatever happens you need to be able to. "Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules" - Douglas Adams. MORE
we focus on Value and don't need to worry about Cost. Here are the moving parts of any project that intends to make money from the cost invested to produce a product or service. Software Project Cost Estimation . Overlooking key project risks. MORE
Today, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan ordered an enquiry into the escalating costs of the former Olympic stadium site. However the escalating costs have raised more than a few eye brows. additional costs for the seating problem. How good is project sponsorship in your company? MORE
Deltek is the latest member of the Arras People Software Directory , in this article they give a brief overview of how projects can be controlled and how software can help with this. But what are the right project controls and is there a single method to the implementation madness? MORE
Project profitability can be won or lost at the execution level. Here are five critical control points that project managers should have front-of-mind when looking for ways to improve on project delivery and, ultimately, their companies’ fiscal health. MORE
Efficient service delivery is based on getting the project management engine as finely tuned as possible so that it runs smoothly. This is what we are referring to as the seven key drivers of successful project management. Assuring Project Profitability. MORE
But following structured project management methods can help companies reduce delays, stay on budget, and deliver quality products. To learn more about the challenges facing manufacturers today, download the free 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report here. MORE
IT portfolio management emphasises a strategic focus on goals such as revenue growth, cost reduction, regulatory mandate and business continuity rather than just typical operational objectives such as project cost, timescales and deliverables. MORE
Sales professionals and project managers are professionally worlds apart. However, who could’ve thought that people in sales have the potential to actually turn into a really successful project manager? Carmichael Jordan, Project Manager. Project Management MORE
In a recent webinar on better business performance for professional services we explored how efficient project management doesn’t have to involve major new technology investment. The important thing to bear in mind is how cost-effective this can be. Driving project performance. MORE
The job title of “project manager” is pretty common these days. But project manager roles and responsibilities can be pretty vague if you’re not already familiar with them. When I took my first job as a project manager, my mother asked what I do. MORE
How best to monitor and report on the performance of your projects and predict their future performance? PMBoK & PMP PMI Talent Triangle: Technical Project Management Project Cost Management Project Management Tools and Techniques Project Schedule Management cost management Earned Value MORE
Does remote project management work? Will remote project management work for your organization if you have a top-notch virtual project teams? There are advantages to establishing virtual project teams for remote project management. Some may include the following: Lower project costs due to technology advancements that bridge distance. Improved work/life balance for project team members. The answer, in general, is yes, it can. MORE
Project profitability can be won or lost at the execution level. Here are five critical control points that project managers should have front-of-mind when looking for ways to improve project delivery in professional services and, ultimately, their companies’ fiscal health. MORE
One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. They limit a project, and they can quickly endanger your project’s success. Classic Project Management Constraints. Cost: How much money is available to achieve this outcome? MORE
In fact, just 77% of professional services projects are delivered on time. And as deadlines slip, so invariably costs mount, eating away at your profit. So far, so good. MORE
Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.) MORE
The Project Plan Checklist Have you left anything out of your project plan? Check out this project plan checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. I like to keep my project plans as simple as possible. MORE
The refining stage tends to kick in once you’ve been using LiquidPlanner long enough to focus on proactively managing project risk. When your projects have deadlines, you want to capture that as a deadline date in the project edit panel. Project Costing. MORE
Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. That took the team member away from the project to deal with a family emergency. MORE
If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? One of the reasons is that project managers may not know what to include. Every project is different. Project Baselines. MORE
Project planning is one of the foundational pillars that supports the practice of project management. In Review – Project Planning for Beginners. Project planning is very important in any project, Jennifer said. Project Planning Basics. MORE
IT portfolio management emphasises a strategic focus on goals such as revenue growth, cost reduction, regulatory mandate and business continuity rather than just typical operational objectives such as project cost, timescales and deliverables. With IT portfolio management , project planning is viewed as a fundamentally top-down initiative and external stakeholders are required to take part in the decision making process. MORE
Project management is riddled with complications. It is imperative to keep track of performance metrics throughout the entirety of a project's lifecycle. Keeping track of key performance indicators allows a more accurate understanding of project status, success, and profitability. MORE
It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen. MORE
Not briefing their project managers effectively enough. Project managers regularly tell me this is so and the stories they tell supports this. Take this comment from a recent project management course about a case study briefing. These are words I have heard quite a number of times and he was referring to a case study which we use throughout the project management programme. For a 9 months project costing just over £100,000). MORE
Having the ability to allocate resources more effectively to every project and respond rapidly to changes in workload are key to maximizing employee utilization and increasing your billable hours without increasing headcount. In this article we explore 5 quick wins for increasing employee utilization through effective project management. #1. Monitor employee utilization and project costs People costs are often the single largest part of project costs. MORE
Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. Project Cost Management. MORE
What are the Project Management Knowledge Areas as per PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition ? Thus, activities in projects take some input, these are refined using tools & techniques to create the output. Processes which monitor the execution of project falls under this process group. MORE
Most projects dip into outside resources to achieve their objectives. The practice of vendor management enlists vendors—or businesses and individuals who provide essential goods and services—to help execute their project. Remember, vendors are but one arm of your project. MORE
The right project management tools can help managers become more organized while also reducing the costs involved with carrying out the project. Online tools can help make project cost management more affordable than it has ever been before. Zoho Projects. MORE
I sometimes hear of project management and project managers being challenged in much the same way … ‘what has project management done for us (the organisation)?’ One is to consider what would business life be like without project management in place. MORE
Keep Your Projects Financially Fit. How do projects fall below budget?” Let’s look for ways to monitor and control our cost more intentionally. 4 Ways to Control Cost and Keep Your Projects Financially Fit. Make Your Cost Visible. MORE
Learn about the difference between direct costs and indirect costs in project management with detailed examples and explanation. PMP Study Notes Project Cost Estimates MORE
Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.) MORE
In fact, just 77% of professional services projects are delivered on time. And as deadlines slip, so invariably costs mount, eating away at your profit. The truth is that the only way to ensure profitability of a project is through rigorous, ongoing performance monitoring: using professional services project management software to not only track whether key stages are being delivered on time, but gaining a granular insight into the progress of every task. MORE
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Online PM Courses
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Project Cost Management often puts people off. But there’s little your project sponsor, your client, or their Finance Director care about more than your budget and how closely you can stick to it. Project cost over-runs are common. Project Cost Management.
Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 30, 2017
Keep Your Projects Financially Fit. How do projects fall below budget?” Let’s look for ways to monitor and control our cost more intentionally. 4 Ways to Control Cost and Keep Your Projects Financially Fit. Make Your Cost Visible.
Online PM Courses
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
How best to monitor and report on the performance of your projects and predict their future performance? PMBoK & PMP PMI Talent Triangle: Technical Project Management Project Cost Management Project Management Tools and Techniques Project Schedule Management cost management Earned Value
Deep Fried Brain
AUGUST 18, 2017
Learn about the difference between direct costs and indirect costs in project management with detailed examples and explanation. PMP Study Notes Project Cost Estimates
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 25, 2019
The refining stage tends to kick in once you’ve been using LiquidPlanner long enough to focus on proactively managing project risk. When your projects have deadlines, you want to capture that as a deadline date in the project edit panel. Project Costing.
Ron Rosenhead
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Today, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan ordered an enquiry into the escalating costs of the former Olympic stadium site. However the escalating costs have raised more than a few eye brows. additional costs for the seating problem. How good is project sponsorship in your company?
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Keyedin
MARCH 8, 2019
Having the ability to allocate resources more effectively to every project and respond rapidly to changes in workload are key to maximizing employee utilization and increasing your billable hours without increasing headcount.
Fix my Project Chaos
JANUARY 12, 2017
Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.)
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
Having the ability to allocate resources more effectively to every project and respond rapidly to changes in workload are key to maximizing employee utilization and increasing your billable hours without increasing headcount. In this article we explore 5 quick wins for increasing employee utilization through effective project management. #1. Monitor employee utilization and project costs People costs are often the single largest part of project costs.
Taskque
JULY 17, 2018
Sales professionals and project managers are professionally worlds apart. However, who could’ve thought that people in sales have the potential to actually turn into a really successful project manager? Carmichael Jordan, Project Manager. Project Management
Keyedin
MARCH 8, 2019
In fact, just 77% of professional services projects are delivered on time. And as deadlines slip, so invariably costs mount, eating away at your profit. So far, so good.
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Moira Alexander
DECEMBER 10, 2015
Does remote project management work? Will remote project management work for your organization if you have a top-notch virtual project teams? There are advantages to establishing virtual project teams for remote project management. Some may include the following: Lower project costs due to technology advancements that bridge distance. Improved work/life balance for project team members. The answer, in general, is yes, it can.
ProjectManager.com
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Failure is an unavoidable part of any project process: it’s the degree of failure that makes the difference. But a systemic collapse will derail the whole project. Project managers can learn as much, if not more, from failed projects as they can from successful ones.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Project planning is one of the foundational pillars that supports the practice of project management. In Review – Project Planning for Beginners. Project planning is very important in any project, Jennifer said. Project Planning Basics.
ProjectManager.com
NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Most projects dip into outside resources to achieve their objectives. The practice of vendor management enlists vendors—or businesses and individuals who provide essential goods and services—to help execute their project. Remember, vendors are but one arm of your project.
Fix my Project Chaos
JANUARY 12, 2017
Lately on the blog I’ve been exploring the ten skills that employers want from project managers. Effective leadership is one of the key skill that employers expect from project managers. While managing the project (costs, risks, issues, scope etc.)
Teamweek
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The right project management tools can help managers become more organized while also reducing the costs involved with carrying out the project. Online tools can help make project cost management more affordable than it has ever been before. Zoho Projects.
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
In fact, just 77% of professional services projects are delivered on time. And as deadlines slip, so invariably costs mount, eating away at your profit. The truth is that the only way to ensure profitability of a project is through rigorous, ongoing performance monitoring: using professional services project management software to not only track whether key stages are being delivered on time, but gaining a granular insight into the progress of every task.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Some organizations lack clarity about who approves the project change requests. On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. So, who should approve project change requests?
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 17, 2016
The Project Plan Checklist Have you left anything out of your project plan? Check out this project plan checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. I like to keep my project plans as simple as possible.
ProjectManager.com
JULY 5, 2018
One of the biggest challenges of every project manager is project constraints. They limit a project, and they can quickly endanger your project’s success. Classic Project Management Constraints. Cost: How much money is available to achieve this outcome?
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 26, 2017
is controlled by the people who run it “ This is certainly an appropriate meaning of the phrase when applied to corporate governance, but is not the most empowering vision for how projects need to be governed. Tagged: governance , project decision making , Project performance.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 21, 2018
If this is true, why is it that some project managers put so little time in developing a project management plan? One of the reasons is that project managers may not know what to include. Every project is different. Project Baselines.
Arras People
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Deltek is the latest member of the Arras People Software Directory , in this article they give a brief overview of how projects can be controlled and how software can help with this. But what are the right project controls and is there a single method to the implementation madness?
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
Project profitability can be won or lost at the execution level. Here are five critical control points that project managers should have front-of-mind when looking for ways to improve project delivery in professional services and, ultimately, their companies’ fiscal health.
The Lazy Project Manager
NOVEMBER 20, 2015
I sometimes hear of project management and project managers being challenged in much the same way … ‘what has project management done for us (the organisation)?’ One is to consider what would business life be like without project management in place.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 1, 2019
Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. That took the team member away from the project to deal with a family emergency.
nTask
MARCH 14, 2019
With project management field reaching new heights each day, it has become imperative that one must possess a distinct set of essential project management skills to achieve project success. One of the most essential project management skills has to be communication.
Ron Rosenhead
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
Not briefing their project managers effectively enough. Project managers regularly tell me this is so and the stories they tell supports this. Take this comment from a recent project management course about a case study briefing. These are words I have heard quite a number of times and he was referring to a case study which we use throughout the project management programme. For a 9 months project costing just over £100,000).
Keyedin
MARCH 8, 2019
Project profitability can be won or lost at the execution level. Here are five critical control points that project managers should have front-of-mind when looking for ways to improve on project delivery and, ultimately, their companies’ fiscal health.
Keyedin
MARCH 8, 2019
IT portfolio management emphasises a strategic focus on goals such as revenue growth, cost reduction, regulatory mandate and business continuity rather than just typical operational objectives such as project cost, timescales and deliverables.
Girl's Guide to PM
OCTOBER 3, 2016
It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 21, 2018
we focus on Value and don't need to worry about Cost. Here are the moving parts of any project that intends to make money from the cost invested to produce a product or service. Software Project Cost Estimation . Overlooking key project risks.
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
IT portfolio management emphasises a strategic focus on goals such as revenue growth, cost reduction, regulatory mandate and business continuity rather than just typical operational objectives such as project cost, timescales and deliverables. With IT portfolio management , project planning is viewed as a fundamentally top-down initiative and external stakeholders are required to take part in the decision making process.
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
In a recent webinar on better business performance for professional services we explored how efficient project management doesn’t have to involve major new technology investment. The important thing to bear in mind is how cost-effective this can be. Driving project performance.
Keyedin
APRIL 22, 2019
Efficient service delivery is based on getting the project management engine as finely tuned as possible so that it runs smoothly. This is what we are referring to as the seven key drivers of successful project management. Assuring Project Profitability.
MavenLink
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Project management is riddled with complications. It is imperative to keep track of performance metrics throughout the entirety of a project's lifecycle. Keeping track of key performance indicators allows a more accurate understanding of project status, success, and profitability.
iZenBridge
OCTOBER 8, 2018
What are the Project Management Knowledge Areas as per PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition ? Thus, activities in projects take some input, these are refined using tools & techniques to create the output. Processes which monitor the execution of project falls under this process group.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 11, 2017
But following structured project management methods can help companies reduce delays, stay on budget, and deliver quality products. To learn more about the challenges facing manufacturers today, download the free 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report here.
Project Bliss
MARCH 27, 2017
The job title of “project manager” is pretty common these days. But project manager roles and responsibilities can be pretty vague if you’re not already familiar with them. When I took my first job as a project manager, my mother asked what I do.
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