2023 Trends: 4 Ways for Project Managers to be More Successful
Organizations increasingly continue to rely on project-based work to drive innovation and achieve strategic objectives.
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Automated RAID logs & Action logs – Beyond Spreadsheets (Part 2)
A plan never executes perfectly. Automated RAID logs and Action logs that go beyond spreadsheets are used to better manage the many unplanned work items that come up as you manage a project from the initial planning through execution and close.
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Automated RAID logs & Action logs versus Spreadsheets (Part 1)
Project RAID logs and Action logs are critical tools to help any Project Manager effectively manage the smaller but critical and often daily Actions supporting project work and schedule. Multiple forms, lists or spreadsheets used as a RAID log to track key information involving your project, does not measure up when automated project work tracking software is available.
Your Project Change Management Should Never be a Surprise
The best time to confirm and/or challenge your assumptions is before the project gets underway. Project Managers need to take the time before any real project activity begins to clarify assumptions. You need to fully understand the way in which project changes will be handled for a specific project and for a specific Sponsor.
Critical Steps to Handling Project Progress Reporting
How Project Managers handle the progress reporting of project work items from the team members, is crucial to project success and the relationships with the team members. To ensure the Project Manager is successful, we have some tips for managing and assessing the work item progress as reported from team members.
Project Status Reports: Time Wasted or Time Well Spent?
You may have to use the same template you’ve always used, or you may have started to deliver a new report based on a new template for a new audience or client. Either way, the project status report should always be judged by the value of the information versus the amount of time you may have spent to produce the report.
5 Tips to Simplify Project Risk Management
When you think about project risk management, there can be a seemingly endless number of possible risks to any project. From the small and minor to the large and scary. From the potential asteroid hitting to the people from a specific department being too busy doing their real job there is the possibility of a very long list. Here’s five tips to simplify project risk management for greater project success.
Best Use of Data Visualization and GYR on Project Status Reports
This blog will explain the best ways to use a Green, Yellow and Red (GYR) reference in project status reports, the potential definitions for using the colors and the critical success factors that make it work.
How to Get the Best Results from Project Team Meetings
The Project Manager doesn’t work alone. One way you can be more successful working with your team, is to make the best use of everyone’s time when you are together as a group. These facilitation tips will make your project team meetings more successful.
The Best Ways for Project Managers to Predict Project Success
What’s so hard about accurately predicting the future? Project Managers predict the future success of their project, all the time. Typically, Project Managers (PMs) have an audience with a number of people who are invested in the work and the output of the project and are keen to know the status and forecast for project success.
3 Questions Project Managers Need to Prepare for in Project Updates
Here are some of the tough questions we’ve encountered from our Project Sponsors during project status update meetings and ways you can be prepared to answer them. We’ve also listed the related and unspoken questions that are implied and can be read-into based on the questions that were asked in the meeting.
7 Challenges Project Managers Face Every Day and Easy Solutions
As a Project Manager you have the major responsibility for the outcome of the project. You are the key person the organization or client turns to, not only to keep the planned work on schedule …
3 Ways Project Managers Can Better Manage Project Action Items
As an experienced Project Manager, your time is focused on ensuring all projects are executed to meet both the plan and schedule. You need a clear awareness and understanding of what the project team is working on, what work items are not going according to plan, and what work has yet to be started.
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