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Difference Between Owner & Manager
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Difference Between Owner & ManagerOften, a product owner and a product manager may be a part of a project team. Both positions play an important role in a project, sometimes with a crossover of responsibility. Overall, though, these are two different product roles with unique responsibilities. Not everyone may fully understand these roles and how they tie into a…
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Identifying & Managing Toxic Workplace Behaviors
Learn more: Identifying & Managing Toxic Workplace BehaviorsPlanning a new project and getting organized for kickoff and beyond is a big undertaking for a project manager. It is where a majority of the work takes place, with the goal of getting things running smoothly for the remainder of the project, including periodic check-ins, reviews, and status reporting. Nothing feels better than a…
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Create Useful Project Status Reports: A Comprehensive Guide
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Create Useful Project Status Reports: A Comprehensive GuideAn important and required responsibility connected to running a successful project is writing and delivering useful and comprehensive project status reports. Everyone, including project team members, stakeholders, management and CIO or CEO-level sponsors will have some level of interest in the details of work in progress. There will be different audiences who need to know…
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How to Write a Project Report
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: How to Write a Project ReportIn addition to assigning tasks and hosting meetings, project managers are often tasked with producing various project reports. These high-level overviews and summaries of critical data are delivered to project stakeholders and leadership to communicate different aspects of project progress. There are many types of project reports that track details and data for everything from…
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8 Easy Tips to Effectively Take Meeting Minutes
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: 8 Easy Tips to Effectively Take Meeting MinutesMeetings are a fundamental requirement in business, and every project has many types of meetings. From discovery and planning, to execution and delivery, meetings are essential for ideating and communicating with a team throughout the project life cycle. An effective meeting requires effective meeting minutes — notes that are easy to scan, search, and share.…
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What Are Lessons Learned in Project Management?
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: What Are Lessons Learned in Project Management?The lessons learned review held as part of a project close is an important and valuable experience for all project members. No matter the size or subject of the effort, there are always things that went well and things that could have gone better. Understanding the complete picture helps project managers and project teams learn…
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Creative Projects vs Technical Projects: What They Are, and How to Run Them
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Creative Projects vs Technical Projects: What They Are, and How to Run ThemProject managers generally encounter three types of projects: creative, technical, or a hybrid of the two. Each of these are very different efforts to manage and require separate teams to conceptualize and build either creative or technical requirements and features. Projects like a website build, for example, involve both a creative, visual part — like…
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Difference Between Scrum Master & Project Manager
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Difference Between Scrum Master & Project ManagerThere are times when a traditional project manager is required to work with a Scrum Master. This may be in a mid- to large-size company where there is a separate agile team, or when working with a vendor or agency with an agile team. In order for the two to work closely together, it’s important…
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PMO Roles & Responsibilities
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: PMO Roles & ResponsibilitiesThe experience for a project manager varies between companies, industries, and which project management methodology is used. Some companies have an entire department, a Project Management Office (PMO), dedicated to organizing and standardizing the best project management techniques. Read more: Project Management Office (PMO) Meaning What Does a Typical Day in a PMO Look Like?…
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Establishing Meeting Cadence for Remote Project Teams
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Establishing Meeting Cadence for Remote Project TeamsSetting a meeting cadence for projects is a practice that allows a project manager to create a routine, and get their team in the habit of meeting regularly to move a project along. The goal is to determine a meeting series that sees a balance between when to meet, who to include, and how often…