ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The project management software is expensive, complicated and not collaborative. No wonder project teams look for open-source Microsoft Project alternatives. Let’s look at several open-source Microsoft Project alternatives and see what they have to offer, where they succeed as project management software and where they fall short.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Salesforce is primarily a customer relationship management (CRM) tool, not project management software. However, these tend to be lightweight tools that aren’t comprehensive project management software and they’re also expensive. They don’t have the scope of real project management software. What Is Salesforce?

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In project management, a transition plan can help a project move successfully from one phase to the next, onboarding a new team member or transferring one team member to a new position and/or department. For IT, transition planning can help move services from development into production. What Is a Transition Plan?

Planning 457

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 21, 2022

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed. Requirements Gathering & Analysis.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2024

Scenario planning is a strategy used to consider possible future events for an organization or project to develop an effective and relevant long-term plan to respond positively to that change. Project management software features can help map out scenario planning. What Is Scenario Planning?

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 1, 2020

This includes project management software , which helps you manage all of the moving pieces of the plan. This software can be used to create a product roadmap, which is essentially a timeline of all activities in the product plan. A SWOT analysis can help. Then, assign each task out to the team with due dates.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Teams are not evolving beyond the laid out frameworks or methods. They are not uncovering better ways to deliver software/products. In my experience, I have seen the frameworks, methods become practices to be followed only to showcase a client that the team is doing agile. I create reports needed by the management team.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 12, 2024

I like the definition of risk management from the Sixth Edition, which defines it succinctly: Project risk management includes the processes of conducting risk management planning, identification, analysis, response planning, response implementation and monitoring risk on a project. What is a risk log for?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 11, 2025

It guides the development of objectives, solutions and strategies to ensure all stakeholders understand the issue’s significance and scope. But all of this requires project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has multiple project views to plan and execute projects.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

Next, we’ll outline the demand management process to learn how to implement this planning methodology and how software can facilitate that process. Demand management is cross-functional as it crosses many disciplines, from consumer demand, supply teams and inventory to marketing and customer service. What Is Demand Management?

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2024

The control plan is a living document that’s periodically reviewed and updated as measurement methods and controls are improved over the product’s life cycle. A control plan is more efficient when scheduled in project management software.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 25, 2023

But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. Whether you’re manufacturing products or delivering a service, project management software can help you with the cost of quality. How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Scope creep is the more common term but you might hear both, especially if you are working in software development. Ultimately, it isn’t the project manager coming up with new requirements and asking the team to “just do it”. What’s so bad about scope creep anyway? It takes its toll on team morale.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns. After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. The Role of the Development Team in Scrum. Do you want to get this article in your inbox?

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When the leadership team defines an organization’s vision, they look toward the future and identify the goals and objectives they want to achieve. This makes it easier to reference those documents when needed and review them when creating a new long-term plan. This is the start of strategic planning.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 3, 2023

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. Along the way, we’ll offer tips, particularly on how project management software can help you realize your idea and turn a product prototype into a successful product launch. Most product development doesn’t start with a lightning bolt. What Is a Prototype?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The four types of project management methods are: Data gathering and analysis methods Estimating methods Meetings and events Other (because it’s always worth having a bucket category for anything else, right?). Data gathering and analysis methods. Data gathering and analysis methods give you a richer understanding of a situation.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Each post discusses scientific research that is relevant to our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Why is code quality so often an issue? Why do software teams?—?despite But also a field that has much to say about code quality and how we can be better developers. Technical Debt and Code Smells.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. To manage risk correctly, you need to use project management software. Management.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Project management software can aid in this reporting, but first, let’s look more in-depth at project performance reporting. Once that analysis is complete, you can make suggestions to improve decision-making in your business processes. You can execute and organized gathered data more effectively by using project management software.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Project management software is used by construction project managers to plan, manage and track the project. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has powerful Gantt charts that break the project into five construction phases. A site analysis is also conducted.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Scrum Team delivers a valuable, useful, and usable Increment(s) every Sprint. In my view: It could be a "layer of cake team", in that it cannot in and of itself delivery value without dependencies on other "layers" of the cake. Scrum Team members strive for net improvements. Self-managing.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution. We’ll hear from experts and review key takeaways that project leaders can immediately put into practice in their programs and projects. Manage Team. Conduct Team-Building Exercises.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2019

Therefore, the faster you can solve a problem, the faster you can get the work done or review the solution to ensure it’s correct (and get home on time). Research means doing the due diligence before embarking on executing your project , and it is the rock on which all your problem solving sits. That toiling is analysis.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 21, 2022

Or perhaps your team said they had gathered the requirements, but in reality, the team had hastily rushed through the requirement process resulting in rework, missed deadlines, and another blown budget. The project manager should define the approach to requirements development and management. Poor requirements change process.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 1, 2019

Sometimes leading a team, project or organization goes well. In Review – Crisis Management: How to Lead During a Crisis. Jennifer noted that whether you’re leading a team , project or organization, things are either going well or poorly. These crises impact teams. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s rare to land in the middle.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 5, 2022

They need to have leadership qualities, manage teams, allocate resources and make project plans and schedules. Technical project managers need experience and knowledge of hardware and software installation, upgrades, site maintenance, development and more. They have to be organized and great communicators. But that’s not all.

Technical Review 418

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Suppose a project manager has an upcoming project for website development and design. The project has a defined timeline of six months, and the resources involved are developers, testers, UI/UX designers, analysts, etc. Let’s consider an example of resource forecasting in project management.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Microsoft Project Gantt chart is typically seen as the centerpiece of that project management software. The Gantt chart for Microsoft Project also breaks your project down into project phases and you can add milestones to indicate important dates, which helps you track progress and reward the team for completing their work.

Software Review 467

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Agile A methodology for project and product management, typically used to deliver software projects in an iterative way with short bursts of work called “sprints” Though initially designed as a process for IT and engineering projects, it has since been successfully applied to other industries like marketing.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s of paramount importance to everyone involved, from stakeholders to team members. The best a project manager can do is develop an accurate time estimate for how long it will take to satisfactorily complete the project. The main lesson to learn from all this psychological profiling is that our gut is a poor estimator of time.

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Epicflow Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Sometimes, disruptions can affect product quality ; for example, sourcing materials from alternative suppliers that fail to meet quality standards may lead to producing poor-quality goods. Developing flexible plans involves incorporating time and capacity buffers and avoiding strict deterministic project and production schedule s.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Project managers may use qualitative and quantitative risk analysis to evaluate opportunities. Consequently, these project managers and team members fail to take advantage of these upside risks. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines risk as "the possibility that something bad or unpleasant (such as injury or a loss) will happen."

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What exactly are the strengths and weaknesses of matrix organization s? Weak matrix organization. They both participate in resourcing decisions, conduct performance analysis, prioritize work, etc. A matrix isnt an all-size-fits-all solution; so lets now review matrix organization advantages and disadvantages.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? Can project management software facilitate this work? Creating a long-term, substantial capital improvement plan is aided by project management software. ProjectManager is work and project management software that organizes your project, tasks and resources.

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Planio

OCTOBER 14, 2024

As team leaders or project managers, we need to do better. As our brains evolve, we develop unconscious biases as a way to process information faster. As a manager, you want to get the best out of your team to boost productivity and achieve the best results. Your team can become disengaged.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2019

Art Spinanger, who graduated from one of Mogensen’s classes, took the discipline to Procter and Gamble and developed a work simplification program called Deliberate Methods Change Program. Analysis: Study the map and challenge each of the steps by questioning the why of each. They can be hand drawn or created in software.

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