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How to Be a Project Management Consultant

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Project management consultants don’t only add value to a project, but they can help introduce project management processes to any team. What Is a Project Management Consultant? What Is a Project Management Consultant? A project management consultant gives expert advice to their client.

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Weighing the Pros and Cons of Autocratic Decision Making

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The individual has full authority to make decisions without consulting with anyone else or taking into account any opinions from others. The decision-making power sits with one person so choices can be made quickly without consulting anyone else. Let’s say there is no need for consultation. When to use autocracy.

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Cost Benefit Analysis for Projects – A Step-by-Step Guide

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The answer: consult hard data collected with reporting tools , charts and spreadsheets. RACI is an acronym for responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. It helps you capture all the expenses related to your project from labor costs, consultant fees, the price of raw materials, software licenses and travel.

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The secret weapon to precise project planning: Parametric estimating (with examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Example 3 Here’s another example, this time for a cost estimation: It costs £500 for a day of consultancy. Your project is being outsourced to the consultancy and they have given you a Gantt chart saying the work will take 10 days, spread over 7 weeks.

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Work Wellbeing from Anywhere: Creating a Movement Mindset

Speaker: Laurel Farrer, CEO, Distribute Consulting

Join Laurel Farrer, CEO of Distribute Consulting, to learn how you can equip your team in a way that strengthens physical, emotional, and mental health, all while optimizing productivity, regardless of where they are working. The unexpected chaos of 2020 left our society feeling more anxious, burned out, and isolated than ever.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mark Phillips runs a consultancy focused on high performing projects. Soma Bhattacharya is the blogger behind Stepping into PM , and an Agile consultant. Louise Worsley is a PPPM consultant and a visiting lecturer in project management at The University of Cape Town. You can follow her on Twitter here. Find him on Twitter.

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How to Make a RACI Chart for a Project (with Example)

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RACI is an acronym for responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. Under each person on the project team add the R (Responsible), A (Accountable), C (Consulted) or I (Informed), depending on their relation to the tasks on the left column. The last thing you want when you’re executing a project is confusion. What Is a RACI Chart?

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

In 2019, DiscoverOrg commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate sales and marketing intelligence practices in the B2B space. Fact: Only 8% of sales and marketing professionals say their data is between 91% - 100% accurate. The primary takeaway? Forrester found “only 1.2%

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Use Discovery and Delivery to Experiment Our Way to a New Normal

Speaker: Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Join Johanna Rothman, author and consultant, to consider these options for your products and organizations: How to use the idea of working to create change rather than manage change in planning. Instead of planning for either discovery or delivery, we can use experiments—for all our work. How delivery differs from discovery in practice.