ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 2, 2025

ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that can assign tasks to team members with multiple management tools. Plus, teams can execute their tasks with kanban boards and task lists, while clients get an overview of progress on the calendar view. Here are some examples.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I gathered some project management statistics from original research (thank you, blog reader community) and learned some scary facts: it’s hard out there for project professionals. The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. There is no career development. See the trend?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Enterprise environmental factors can be defined as conditions that aren’t under the immediate control of the project team. These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. First, you need to identify the enterprise environmental factors by listing the internal and external ones.

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Sandeep Kashyap

JUNE 1, 2022

How to Manage Underperforming Employees One of the most critical new managers’ challenges is faced when trying to manage employees. Out of which, the even more crucial aspect of the challenge is managing underperforming employees. Managers have to manage their teams and help them grow while keeping them motivated and engaged.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

And to do that, you must find ways to influence events that seem to be outside of your control. Let’s explore practical steps you can take to become a lucky project manager: here are nine ways to influence your luck. You can’t influence the outcome of the roulette wheel. Re-frame Bad Luck. Find the causes.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As work evolves to include hybrid teams that are located in different places with a wide range of skill sets, successful businesses need to connect everyone to keep them productive. Perhaps the best solution would be to develop hybrid work processes that allow for a variety of work styles. Every team needs a leader. No problem.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Agile is a way of working that comes from software development. While the roots of incremental development methods of working stem back to the 1950s and into the 1970s, it wasn’t until 2001 that a group of software developers published the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agile Tools for Agile Teams.

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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. Whether in project management, business process improvement, product development or research, using a problem statement ensures a focused and strategic approach to finding solutions.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 7, 2024

Demand management is cross-functional as it crosses many disciplines, from consumer demand, supply teams and inventory to marketing and customer service. ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software with resource allocation features to keep teams working at capacity. What Does a Demand Manager Do?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

If something bad is going to happen on a project, it’s likely related to time, cost or scope. There are project controls professionals who are responsible to the project manager, but they touch the entire project team. Project Development. Cost estimates are developed into budgets and time estimates become project schedules.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s up to the production team to determine the proper level for the process being controlled. The team develops it to control the process and ensure the product quality meets customer expectations. The following seven steps capture the process of developing a control plan for manufacturing.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

This way you begin to define the boundaries of your project and figure out what responsibilities you will task your team with, and the process by which that work will be verified and approved. You’ll be using this documentation throughout the project as a means to for you and your team to stay focused on task. Train your team.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 16, 2019

It must positively influence all aspects of a business, including revenue, cost and risk. Without one or the other, a business will struggle with weak performance. While seemingly impossible, there are principles that guide operational discipline so that a team can achieve these objectives. Excellence is, however, relative.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 29, 2019

For the last four years, I’ve published my annual women in project management blog for ProjectManager.com. Stevens is a podcaster, author, speaker and works with women in project management to reinforce within themselves their true value to their team, company and industry. It’s Time to Change the Ratio. Invest in your network.

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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. You can list your business goals, marketing and operational plans, financial projections and the team that will be tasked with meeting your strategic goals.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He’s best remembered for the tool that bears his name and his works in the development of what’s called scientific management. While Gantt charts are named after Henry Gantt, the first Gantt chart was developed by Karol Adamiecki, a Polish engineer, in the mid-1890s.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

They can include department heads, investors, manufacturers, board members or simply team members. Given their influence, it’d be unwise to neglect your stakeholder management plan. They are usually department heads, such as heads of Marketing, IT, Development, Operations and more. They have that much power.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 25, 2018

And that’s what a transformational leader exploits; they lift themselves and their teams to higher levels of achievement. While most great leaders are naturally charismatic, you don’t have to have been born with transformational leadership qualities to develop them. All this increases team performance and project productivity.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Epicflow Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What exactly are the strengths and weaknesses of matrix organization s? Weak matrix organization. This also means that all the knowledge and experience obtained while working on a project stays within a company and can be used by team members for work on other projects, which facilitates more productive project work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

And in no particular order we start with: Mark Phillips Mark Phillips High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project.

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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. Operationa l scenario planning reviews all potential outcomes of a certain decision and how they can influence the business or project.

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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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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Stick with me, and we’ll explore what project requirements are, why they’re important, and some tips for developing good ones. First, they provide the project team with a shared understanding of the project’s goals and objectives. Stick with what you can influence: you know broadly what the objectives and goals are.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

From your team to the tools they need, materials, equipment, software, office space and so on. It’s a tool used by project managers and their teams to see if they have the resources they need to complete the assigned tasks in a project. The project schedule and its budget will greatly influence resource forecasting.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Communicating information to all key stakeholders, sponsors and team members. Interactive Gantt charts, assign tasks and track progress, can be shared with stakeholders and keep the project team connected in real time. Manage Team. Assigning tasks to the team is only the beginning. Conduct Team-Building Exercises.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 25, 2022

You’ll learn tips and techniques for engaging senior leaders in the role so you can build effective working relationships and act as a team. to support the team at the request of the project manager. They will be able to identify new risks and make the team aware of what is happening elsewhere in the organization.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2018

There is also regional growth, specifically in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India. Whatever the reason, it’s a bad precedent to set. No, you don’t have to start a blog, but you can work in your organization or in local groups to speak on topics you have subject matter expertise in.

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Inloox

MAY 27, 2021

Another reason can be the influence of the project environment or a high number of stakeholders. A good project manager knows that some developments are out of their control. As a result, everyone develops an individual level of risk tolerance, which a good project manager must also consider within their team.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 5, 2022

As a community, we excel at putting our fingers on the sore spots of what teams and organizations do wrong. Some examples of good Scrum versus bad Scrum we all seem to agree on…. But how useful is it for members of a Scrum team or an organization that actually wants to succeed with Scrum? Why does it matter?

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The IIL Blog

JULY 31, 2024

By Debra Khan Practitioners of content strategy do not have to go it alone when developing a strategy for a content project. Align with the Business Need A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK ), the bible for project managers, states that “projects are initiated due to internal business needs or external influences”.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

This is the last in a series of 3 blogs presenting the result of an interesting research study from Sam Walker. Walker discovered that the most successful sports teams that ever existed all shared one single element: They all had a team captain with 7 overlapping traits that made them extremely successful.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 3, 2018

I couldn’t fit it all in this blog post. High performing teams are motivated by an exceptional vision. The vision becomes a touchstone for difficult discussions with stakeholders, a path to unity for all project participants and a guide post for decision making with your team throughout the project. So I made you an ebook.

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Scrum.org

JULY 11, 2021

And has created tons of supporting materials like card decks, papers, videos, blog posts, and much more! In this blog post, we focus on one specific question that was raised: “How to measure the success of an Agile Coach or Scrum Master?”. In the remainder of this blog post, I’ll include my personal findings as well.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This post is for anyone who wants to inspire, change or influence others through their efforts as professionals, with emphasis on the latter. What is the optimal size of a team? Should teams be stable over at least several years, or is it a good idea they change at will? How should leadership interact with autonomous teams?

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In a recent blog post, we discussed the various types of Agile Transformation Coaches needed to run a sustainable Transformation. Rather, it takes a team of consultants performing their duties at multiple levels of the organization. Agile Transformation Consultant: Team Attributes. And trust is the currency of change.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 29, 2022

Do you start a new Scrum team by explaining the roles, artifacts, and events? And not because frameworks are categorically bad (they aren’t). And I’m sure that most readers have taught this to teams and organizations at least once in their lives, and probably far more often than that. I think this is problematic.

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