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What to Do if Your Project Runs Over-Budget, and How to Prevent It
Categories: Project Management TrainingLearn more: What to Do if Your Project Runs Over-Budget, and How to Prevent ItGoing over budget in project management is a dreaded situation for project managers and business owners alike. However, a 2020 study by Wellingtone showed that only 27% of projects go over budget; 43% of them mostly or always accomplish projects within the budget. As the numbers prove, cost overruns are completely preventable as long as…
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Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities for Software Projects
Categories: Project Management TrainingLearn more: Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities for Software ProjectsSoftware project management is a specialized field that has become more important in recent years. With the increased reliance on software products, there’s been more emphasis put on ensuring that projects are completed on time and with as few bugs as possible. If you want to get into software project management, it’s essential to understand…
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How to Delegate for Project Management
Categories: Project Management TrainingLearn more: How to Delegate for Project ManagementDelegation in project management is one of the most powerful ways to free up your time and energy to focus on what matters most. You’ll have more time for planning while providing growth opportunities for your team members. When you have good manager delegation skills, it can be an excellent way for your team to…
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Basecamp vs. Slack in 2023
Categories: Project Management Software ReviewsLearn more: Basecamp vs. Slack in 2023Basecamp and Slack are two popular tools for managing projects. Basecamp is a project management and team communication tool, while Slack aims to be your whole-team chat room. While they differ in design and feature sets, you can use both to organize teams and communicate with team members. Let’s compare these two project management tools…
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5 Phases of Project Management Life Cycle You Need to Know
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: 5 Phases of Project Management Life Cycle You Need to KnowManagement by project life cycle phase gives the project team a common vocabulary to communicate project progress, resulting in better organizational control over the projects they handle. Here’s a detailed look at each phase.
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How to Prepare a Hassle-Free Project Handover
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: How to Prepare a Hassle-Free Project HandoverThe project handover is the process of transferring the responsibility of a project to a client (or their operations manager) after its completion, or to another project manager for further development. While scopes of work may require different levels of documentation and detail in the handover, paying the same attention to detail at this phase…
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Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the Basic Building Block for a Project Plan
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), the Basic Building Block for a Project PlanProjects are made up of milestones, deliverables, and tasks brought together to accomplish goals and objectives. To effectively plan and monitor timely project completions, you’ll need clarity on the factors that contribute to its success. One of the ways you can stay on top of these is by creating a work breakdown structure (WBS). What…
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Maximizing Dashboards for Project Managers
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Maximizing Dashboards for Project ManagersDecision-making is one of the key responsibilities of a project manager. To make good decisions, you need insights derived from data and trends. And there are few tools better at helping make sense of the data set than dashboards. Dashboards are visualization tools that give organized information (usually from different sources) compiled in one point…
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Differences Between a Scrum Master & Project Manager
Categories: Project Management TrainingLearn more: Differences Between a Scrum Master & Project ManagerThere are no project managers in teams that use scrum. Instead, the responsibilities of a project manager are distributed across the team. However, people outside the project management discipline often use the terms “scrum master” and “project manager” interchangeably. To clarify the jobs and help you visualize how this works, let’s first talk about scrum.…
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What to Do When Your Client is Hacked
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: What to Do When Your Client is HackedData threats are bad news. They can stop your business and project operations, expose proprietary data, harm your client’s public image, and compromise the trust of your client’s customers, all of which impact your reputation and your bottom line. As more people switched to a work-from-home set up in 2020, cybercrime also increased. Data shows…