PMO functions that support programs and projects are often considered to be the central hub of the team. They work to support the project manager and the team in areas such as planning, reporting, document management and providing a secretariat…
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Look down your project task list. You’ll have tasks that you instinctively know will take hardly any time at all and others that might run for a month or more. On paper they may look the same but when it…
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By linking projects you can more effectively task manage your projects, and in this PM training video, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review: How to Link Tasks on Your Project…
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Peter Taylor is an authority on project management and the PMO Project management expert He writes and speaks globally on productivity and work-life balance, and is the author of the best-selling books and The Lazy Project Manager (Infinite Ideas, 2010) and The Lazy Winner (Infinite…
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If we were to sit down and create a chart of successful and unsuccessful projects, I can guarantee one thing: the projects where there was an investment in planning, even just a tiny fraction, far outperformed those where no planning…
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You’ve spent a lot of time preparing a detailed project plan and you know it accurately represents everything you have to do. Then something happens and you have to change it. It feels like you’ve done all that work for…
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You use Gantt charts for your projects, but do you know the history of the Gantt chart and the best practices for using the Gantt chart? Watch project management trainer and expert Devin Deen shows us the full capabilities of…
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Project teams intuitively talk about milestones. They discuss when phases will be complete and when deliverables will be turned in to the clients. The further away the individuals are from the detail of the project tasks, the more likely they…
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Project managers are the glue in your processes. Many organizations will post job openings to free sites, quickly process resumes and throw a PM onto a project their first day, but then wonder why they’re having trouble on their projects…
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Starting your projects in the right way makes it so much easier to manage your work and your team. While it’s tempting to dive straight in and get on with your tasks, it pays to take a bit of time…
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In this video, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows a method for quality control by providing three ways to set quality targets when in the planning stages of your project. Here’s a shot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review: How to Set…
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Transparency is the key to the future of work. So says Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack in a recent New York Times piece decrying the end of email as we know it. Slack is just one of a number of apps that are promoting a culture…
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In product development, whether in startups or established companies, when we change from our Plan A to a different plan, we are pivoting. A product pivot is when a change in plan causes a change in the actual product that’s…
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