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Project Management Best Practices: Prioritizing and Planning
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Project Management Best Practices: Prioritizing and Planning“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” The wise words of Plato ring true, especially in the complex world of project management. The project manager is responsible from the very start for every aspect of the project, including being aware of and ready to navigate inevitable challenges and risks. The bulk of…
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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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Communicating with Clients When They’re Wrong
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Communicating with Clients When They’re WrongClients drive business, and you need them to exist. As much as they are a lifeline, they can also seem like a hindrance. Instead of enabling them to take the reins and potentially drive a project into the ground, as the project manager, you should set communication standards early on with them and communicate how…
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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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Effectively Communicating Project Status to Your Team and Stakeholders
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Effectively Communicating Project Status to Your Team and StakeholdersManaging a project is not an easy task. You often need to face a lot of challenges and, most of the time, things don’t go exactly to plan. You also need to consider a lot of factors when taking on a project. You must have time management, leadership, critical thinking, and risk management skills to…
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Timeline Templates: How to Use Different Project Timeline Templates
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Timeline Templates: How to Use Different Project Timeline TemplatesTimelines are a mission-critical tool for project managers. Whether you’re using project management software to get the job done, or using a spreadsheet, the ability to create an accurate visual representation of what needs to happen when, and in what order should be one of your PM superpowers. A timeline is a visual representation…
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What is Cost Benefit Analysis?
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: What is Cost Benefit Analysis?Business decisions are based on many different data-driven variables. A useful tool for helping evaluate whether to move forward with or abandon a key business maneuver is calculating a cost-benefit analysis. A cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, is a simple comparison of the projected or estimated business costs or opportunities of a project against the benefits…
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How to Identify & Prevent Cost Overruns in Construction
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: How to Identify & Prevent Cost Overruns in ConstructionAvoiding construction cost overruns is a project priority second only to timely completion and avoiding them should be the top priority for any project manager. Budget overruns are the bane of any project, construction or otherwise, and these planning oversights are potentially disastrous, and unfortunately common. According to KPMG, less than a third of all…
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Remote Teams and App Development: Overcoming the Project Management Challenges
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Remote Teams and App Development: Overcoming the Project Management ChallengesWith the pandemic delivering once-in-a-generation changes to the work culture, an ongoing debate on remote working seems to have been decided. For years, different industries were on the precipice of choosing remote work but refrained from implementing it entirely. However, the onset of the pandemic gave little to no choice, and as a result, remote…
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