Alan Parker Blog

JULY 25, 2024

This phase involves regular monitoring, measurement, and auditing activities to identify areas for improvement and ensure compliance with the established policies and controls. Implementation Steps Define Metrics and Indicators Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with the ISMS objectives.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 21, 2024

Before explaining why, first we’ll define project management, professional services and the relationship between the two. This is done through project management processes, such as planning, scheduling, executing and monitoring projects. Channels, schedules, roles and responsibilities are defined for communicating with stakeholders.

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Alan Parker Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Introduction The Monitoring & Controlling phase is about keeping an eye on progress and actively adjusting strategies and actions to align with project goals. Monitoring & Controlling helps project managers address potential risks proactively, manage changes, and ensure that the project adheres to its schedule and budget.

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Project Management Update Submitted Articles

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Project risk is defined by Project Management Institute as "an uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, has a positive or negative effect on a project’s objectives.” Put it simply, to most project professionals, risk is the likelihood that a project will fail to meet its objectives.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 23, 2024

To better understand a client brief, first, let’s define the term and identify who is responsible for creating one. Describe the Overall Purpose of the Project First, understand what the client wants by defining the project’s purpose. A lot of similar project documentation is also used, though some have different names.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 26, 2023

For a program governance framework to work, it must be repeatable and structure activities, such as communication, monitoring and more. Some things program governance defines are roles and responsibilities, chain of command and other aspects of program management to help the program succeed.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 14, 2024

Executing a plan, whether a project or a larger organizational strategy, is pointless without monitoring its progress and performance. These dashboards can identify trends, monitor progress and allow for data-driven decision making. Manufacturing KPI Dashboard: This KPI dashboard helps manufacturers monitor and review production.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 13, 2023

Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any successful project process. So come with us as we go down the rabbit hole of monitoring and controlling, and show you just how important it really is. In this article, we’ll cover: What is monitoring and controlling in project management?

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Scoro

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whether you’ve already got experience running a big project or you’re about to oversee a team for the first time, knowing the right techniques to monitor workflow effectively makes the process a lot more manageable. Read on to discover seven of the best workflow monitoring techniques to employ alongside your project management of choice.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. That’s why monitoring and tracking during execution is so important.

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Epicflow Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

A project baseline can be defined as an approved project plan with or without any approved changes. All of them must be approved by key stakeholders and monitored regularly to ensure that the project is kept on track: problems with one of the types can affect the other ones or even the project outcome if no necessary actions are taken.

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Scoro

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whether you’ve already got experience running a big project or you’re about to oversee a team for the first time, knowing the right techniques to monitor workflow effectively makes the process a lot more manageable. Read on to discover seven of the best workflow monitoring techniques to employ alongside your project management of choice.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A service level agreement, often abbreviated as SLA, is used in IT and professional services to define what a vendor is expected to do. As noted, a service level agreement is used to define the level of service that a customer expects from a supplier. Therefore, to better understand what an SLA is, we’ll define the three types below.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Project managers monitor resource rates and analyze resource utilization to make informed decisions on balancing workload to keep teams working at capacity, address shortages to ensure that resources are available when and where they’re needed and enhance efficiency. Our software gives project managers this data in real time.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Using GanttProject allows IT and other project management professionals to plan and oversee projects by defining tasks, setting dependencies, allocating resources and monitoring timelines. Time Tracking: Monitor time spent on tasks against the planned duration. Progress tracking is available on the Gantt chart.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

There are many different types of construction resources beyond labor and we’ll define them as well as the process for construction resource management. This is also used as an agreement or contract between all parties involved and is going to help define the resource requirements for the project.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 29, 2023

Find a term you want defined that isn’t on this project management glossary? Business Plan A formal document that clearly defines the business goals of a project and how to attain them. It helps to model the maturity of the capability of business process by defining steps and managing result metrics to optimize the process.

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Project Pulse Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Can you truly have a well-monitored project and a motivated team working harmoniously? Explore the world of project monitoring and controlling , where we'll guide you through project oversight without overwhelming your team. This article will help you balance diligent project monitoring and foster a less stressful team environment.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

We’ll get to that in a moment as well as define project pipeline management. Work in Progress As the project moves into the execution, monitoring and controlling phase, you’ll need to keep track of the progress and performance of your team to make sure that the project is on schedule and staying within the budget.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 16, 2024

At this point, the manager will begin to allocate work hours to each team member and, as they execute those tasks, monitor the resource utilization rate and costs. It helps define who does what in the project and establishes boundaries, which is what makes it a useful resource management template.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 7, 2024

General contractors strive to maintain each job’s profit margin, so it makes sense that the construction project will be monitored closely to ensure it’s progressing as planned. A WIP report, an abbreviation of a work-in-progress report, is the tool general contractors use to monitor costs. Learn more What Is a WIP Report?

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Before we get into framework processes and phases, let’s more fully define the meaning of ITSM and why it’s important. It also monitors activities on the organization’s network and IT infrastructure, which can detect breaches of company policy. But first, let’s quickly define other ITSM frameworks.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’re not familiar with a balanced scorecard, we’ll define the term and show the four perspectives it tracks as well as explain what should be included in a balanced scorecard. Let’s define the four balanced scorecard perspectives. You have to define where you want to be over one year, two years, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Before getting to the transition plan, let’s define transition planning. Download Excel File How to Make a Transition Plan To create a transition plan, start by defining the vision. Define Goals and Make an Action Plan To create a timeline, one must first have tasks and those tasks come from the steps that are taken to achieve a goal.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 24, 2024

For example, it helps with selecting, defining and delivering projects. This is done by a variety of skills and techniques, led by a project manager and includes defining project scope, identifying deliverables, managing risks and effective communication across teams. Who Oversees Organizational Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2023

To understand what project health is let’s define it and the areas that should be monitored to make sure your project is healthy. As we’ll see in a moment, this requires a close monitoring of various elements of the project. ProjectManager has real-time dashboards to monitor the health of your project. Learn more.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Remember, a project is defined as time-bound that delivers a product or service. Their responsibilities are the same in that they plan, review plans, schedule tasks and monitor and control projects to ensure that they’re delivered on time without overspending. Traditionally, a project goes through five stages in its life cycle.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2024

That’s because the project teams involved with these successful projects follow a defined and repeatable process, which mitigates risk and achieves objectives. Rather, it’s a team effort guided by standardized processes, well-defined roles and responsibilities and collaboration. Let’s define each of these five stages.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 31, 2023

Now that we’ve determined what a project is, we can define project management as a discipline. While there are several project management roles within a project team, the project manager is usually in charge of overseeing the process of planning, executing and monitoring projects from start to finish. What Is Project Management?

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 6, 2024

Planning, scheduling, monitoring and controlling are all key elements of project management that work to ensure the time spent and progress made over the life cycle of the project is as efficient as possible. It can be a monthly work schedule for longer projects with clearly defined tasks and deliverables.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 17, 2024

To better understand what a sales order is, we’ll define the term, list what should be included and outline the sales order process. To distinguish between other transactional documents, we’ll define a sales invoice and purchase order and how they differ from sales orders. We will define that process in the next section.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 15, 2021

So we thought it would be a great idea to take a look at what core qualifications are required of project managers and define their responsibilities and the common job descriptions for several PM roles. This involves creating a project schedule, securing the resources, defining the project goals, among many other things. Manage budget.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2024

Define the Desired Future State The future state is how the change will impact the various aspects of the organization or project. Describe the Proposed Change With the current and future state of the operations mapped out, it’s time to define the change that is being proposed and its scope.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2024

Project strategy is the plan that defines a project, which is why project management strategy is so important. Project Management Office (PMO): A PMO is responsible for defining and maintaining the standards for an organization’s project management. The next step is to clearly define those goals. Every project is different.

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NimbleWork

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Hence, the way they need to be “proactively” tracked and monitored needs to evolve! The post Improve Project Outcomes: How to Define and Track Project Health? Project Managers have always struggled to balance the“triple constraints”! The complexity and uncertainty of projects keeps increasing with every passing year.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 8, 2024

To understand capacity management, we’ll first fully define the term, list the different types and explain why it’s so important in operations management. Being able to monitor resource capacity during the execution of projects is essential to ensuring that a business is maximizing its output.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Download this free software development plan template for Excel to organize tasks and monitor progress. The free template has a column to give the test case an ID, another for defining the test case scenario and one to explain how it will be tested. The environment defined and details of the bug are listed.

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