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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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Define a High-Level Vision. You have just developed a product that could potentially be monetized and sold to marketing agencies around the world. Once you have your new product idea, the next step is to develop a high-level vision for the product that can be used to pitch it to potential consumers. Bring Your Idea into Focus.

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Cost of Quality (COQ): A Quick Guide

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How COQ does this, especially in project management, is what we’ll define. But we’ll also discuss the cost of good quality vs. the cost of poor quality and show you how to measure COQ. This is done in two ways as illustrated above: controlling good quality against the failure of control, which leads to bad quality.

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SDLC – The Software Development Life Cycle

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The software development life cycle (SDLC) is how it’s done in software development. Let’s define it, look at different models and the best way to manage SDLC. What Is the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process by which software is developed and deployed.

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

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Or some other criteria as defined in your project management process internally, that specifies what Red means for you. Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. For example, bring in a contractor to speed up developing an IT system. It happens.

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How to Make a Change Management Communication Plan

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Once awareness and support have been established, then the change management communication plan has to be developed. That is, define what the communication should accomplish. Internal stakeholders can include members of the project team, project managers, members of other departments and senior leaders in the organization.

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How to Make a Control Plan in Manufacturing

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A control plan is a document describing everything from measurements, inspections, quality checks or monitoring process parameters required at each phase of a process to ensure that the process outputs conform to the requirements. Once the schedule is done, set a baseline to monitor planned progress against actual progress in real time.

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What Is a Transition Plan? Example & Template Included

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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. Before getting to the transition plan, let’s define transition planning. A transition plan is used in many industries.

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