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Project Managers spend a good portion of their time communicating.  Solid communication is key to a project’s wellness and success. As a project manager you will spend plenty of time sending emails, chairing project team meetings and briefing senior managers and stakeholders. In short, project communication is very important. Poor project communication can lead to: Unnecessary “noise” […]

Best Project Charter Templates For Project Managers Every project is defined by its core objectives, and a project charter is that crucial document that allows you to outline these objectives. It also highlights the project’s vision, scope, and expected deliverables and can also contain the roadmap for the project, outlining exactly how the goals will be […]

What Are We Building? Any Project Manager will tell you that one of the key success factors in managing projects is having solid requirements. What are you building and rolling out? Who will you need to complete the tasks? How long can it take and how much will it cost? Requirements is the key input […]

Managing projects were vendors are playing a significant role can offer its challenges. When vendors are depended on to provide a design, infrastructure or software installation and configurations you will always have a risk you cannot completely control. As you would expect, some vendors are better than others. You have vendors that are well organized, […]

Schedule Development Tips… Keep project schedules simple Tasks names to be based on deliverables Tasks names to be descriptive nouns and begin with verbs Do not put check lists into schedule. Use note feature for including details Require project schedules to follow principles of “Dynamic Schedules” All individual tasks have dependencies (predecessors and successors) Chose […]

The Project Meeting Kick-Off: Preparing for your project kick-off meeting can help set your project on the right track. Being organized, establishing roles and responsibilities and laying out the project objectives will go a long way in positioning your project for success. Here are a few tips for planning your project kick-off meeting: Prepare and send […]

Learn Project Risk Management From The Best Almost all projects come with a certain degree of risk, complexity, and uncertainty. However, despite these hurdles, businesses must undertake most projects to grow and develop further. This puts a huge burden on project managers, who are required to mitigate these risks to ensure the best outcomes. Luckily, […]

  A few tips for managing your issues… Maintaining an Issue Log: Assign owners to issues who can resolve the problem. Establish issue priority – Low, Medium, High. Who should work on what issue first? Track issue reported date and estimate target date for resolution. Communicate status to sponsor and key stakeholders in a timely […]

Your Ally: The Project Sponsor Managing your relationship with your project sponsor is key to your success with managing your project. A strong, active sponsor can make a positive difference for the program or project. A project sponsor who may be funding the effort can be the “big stick” when you need someone with authority […]

Working with people will be a challenge that requires careful planning. As a Program or Project Manager your “people” skills will be tested to build an effective project team willing to work together to achieve one goal – project success. Project team members will have their egos and character quirks. You will need to be […]