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Best Practices in Stakeholder Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Best Practices in Stakeholder ManagementThis article is supported by AtTask, online project management software. Request a Trial. Get a 360-degree view of all workplace activities, helping both team members and management to better understand and organize their work. Introduction Stakeholders in a project are those who are actively involved in a project, and whose interests are impacted by the…
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6 Ways to Prevent Cost Overruns
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: 6 Ways to Prevent Cost OverrunsThis article is supported by AtTask, online project management software. Request a Trial. Get a 360-degree view of all workplace activities, helping both team members and management to better understand and organize their work. Preventing Cost Overruns Cost overruns are a common occurrence in project management. I have covered in an earlier article about the…
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Six Sigma and Project Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Six Sigma and Project ManagementIntegrating Six Sigma techniques with the project management methodologies is the way to go for companies focussing on continuous improvement. Many organizations implement Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, and Total Quality Control to assist in new product development, to reduce the cost of development, improve manufacturing efficiency or to enter new markets. Most organizations integrate…
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Project Audit Guidelines
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Project Audit GuidelinesAuditing is key to monitor the success of any project. Project auditing is important so as to validate whether the project is feasible in a business sense, to verify whether the project can move on to the next phase, and also to check any specific issues that crop up during project execution. Most importantly the…
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10 Best practices to Effectively Communicate with the Project Stakeholders
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: 10 Best practices to Effectively Communicate with the Project StakeholdersOne of the biggest tasks of a project manager is to manage the communication flow within the organization. It is important to keep all the stakeholders at the same page and bad communication could break a project or delay the delivery. In this post, I will cover the best practices in stakeholder communication. Identify all…
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5 Ways to Visually Manage your Projects
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: 5 Ways to Visually Manage your ProjectsIntroduction There are many ways to visually represent your projects to make the communication better. Great visual representations help you compress enormous amount of information in a single sheet of paper. In this post, I will cover the top 5 visual representations in project management. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) It is a tree representation used…
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Project Management in Daily Life
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Project Management in Daily LifePeople usually relate the word project management to the huge projects that most of the large companies run. Project management is one of the most popular professions these days especially among the youngsters as the pay scale of a project manager is very high as compared to other professionals. I am sure you better know…
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Human Resource Issues in Project Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Human Resource Issues in Project ManagementIntroduction Project management involves monitoring of the whole project systematically by using various tools and latest technology. Project management was simple a few years before but now it has become highly technical. This has decreased the chances of failure of project but have you ever thought why some projects get failed although they use all…
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The Project Whisperer: insightful and informative book on Project Management
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: The Project Whisperer: insightful and informative book on Project ManagementThe Project Whisperer is an insightful and informative book on Project Management written and self published by Pam Stanton. Pam Stanton graduated from Yale University in Psychobiology, an accomplished project manager and consultant with over 20 years of experience. In her book, Pam uses various analogies in an interesting way that captivates reader’s mind and…
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Developing or Verifying a Project Plan
Categories: Project Management ArticlesLearn more: Developing or Verifying a Project PlanA project plan is a critical document for the project manager to be able to successfully deliver a project. A project plan is like having a map, itinerary and budget for a trip away. For a small trip, or project, like going to the corner store this may all be in your head. However for…
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