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Organizational Project Management (OPM) Basics

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ProjectManager is award-winning project and portfolio management software that has robust roadmaps that can group and organize all the projects in a program or portfolio and display them on one Gantt chart, which has resource management, time tracking and task management features. Who Oversees Organizational Project Management?

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups. Initiating Phase. Learn More!

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What Is a Program Roadmap? (Example & Template Included)

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A program is a group of related projects that are managed together to reap the maximum amount of benefits. Program managers can also use the program roadmap to track progress to ensure that all projects are staying on schedule, budget and keeping to quality standards. On the right are the timelines for all the projects in the program.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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What Is Smartsheet? Uses, Features and Pricing

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Timeline View: Organizes data in groups on a timeline. This avoids costly delays, identifies essential tasks and keeps projects on schedule and budget. It also offers visibility into labor costs to stay on budget. Just like ProjectManager, Smartsheet has multiple project views, but they’re not as dynamic.

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How to Write a Client Brief (Example & Template Included)

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The client will include all the information the agency needs to understand the client’s needs, including the available budget, estimated timeline and other details in the client brief. Included is the information we’ve discussed above, from the target audience, brand guidelines and company background to goals and KPIs, budget and timeline.

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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That might be a weekly or monthly status report, or a report to your steering group. It is often relatively straightforward to identify what needs to happen: If you are running late, your steering group or program board needs to approve a replan to a later date or the resources to enable you to deliver to the original date.