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3 Simple Questions to Ask Before Your Annual Project Planning
If your company is like most, this time of year is dedicated to focusing in on projects that will become a reality sometime in the near future. This normally means you’ll have to look at the project...
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Take The First Step In Improving Your Business Processes
You can’t improve what you don’t know. That’s the key reason why an assessment should be conducted prior to any change in business process or software implementation. An assessment will help you...
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How To Document Your Current Processes In 10 Easy Steps
Most companies use repeatable processes to get work done. That’s a good thing. But if those processes aren’t written down, there are any number of things that could happen to cause breakdowns in the...
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How To Create A Project Communication Plan
A communication plan that will guide the messages to a project’s affected stakeholders is a critical part of any project. How well you communicate throughout the life cycle of your project can make the...
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Avoid Pains Converting a Manual to an Automated Process
One of the things you don’t want to do when you convert manual processes to an automated system is keep inefficiencies or redundant steps in a process, so it’s important to take your “as is” processes...
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How to Define A Communication Method For Project Success
Communication is the backbone of a successful project. Plenty of projects have failed because there wasn’t enough communication or the communication was the wrong type directed at the wrong people....
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Conducting A Pilot May Be The Best Bet For Project Success
If your project involves large scale organizational change, whether it involves software or not, conducting a pilot prior to full implementation can prevent a disaster. No matter how much planning you...
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How Do I Prepare My Business For Change?
There are a lot of things that can go wrong in a project. Surprises can kill even the best laid plans. Taking the time to conduct a change readiness assessment before you build your project plan can...
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Are Using Project Management Templates Useful or a Crutch?
There are two schools of thought on using templates to manage projects. Some people love them and find them to be useful tools and others think they are useless crutches that have no place on a...
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A Formal Project Deliverable Sign Off Process Helps Build Trust
Taking the time to do a final confirmation on completed deliverables ensures you and the client are aligned and your project will end in success. I’ll never forget a conversation I had with one of my...
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Four Steps You Must Take When Closing Your Project
In a rush to get projects done, one of the most often overlooked, but critical, tasks of a project manager is conducting the project close out step. This step can be a key learning experience and...
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Tactics For Dealing with Scope Change on a Project
Scope change is inevitable on a project. This can be caused by new discoveries during the project, external circumstances or internal changes in the business. It can be disruptive and if not handled...
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Red Flags That Indicate Your Project Is Headed For Failure
Failure doesn’t normally happen on a project without some up front warning. You need to watch out for typical red flags that indicate your project is headed for failure so you can recover before your...
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What the Army Taught Business About Project Failure Causes
When a project fails, companies typically rush into the “blame game” with fingers pointed directly at the project manager. But it’s not necessarily their fault. And it’s important to get to the root...
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How To Tell If A Business Process Is Broken
Broken business processes can cost your business a lot of money in terms of time and actual cash that comes in. And it can send customers running to a competitor. That’s certainly not the way to have a...
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3 Steps To Take To Ensure Consistency In Your Business
Consistency in the way you accomplish work can save your business time and money, and give you a better chance for success. Customers want a predictable experience when they do business with a company,...
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Can You Be A Success Managing Remotely?
We talk a lot about remote teams or remote workers, but there’s not a lot of discussion about remote managers. There are a lot of moving parts to being a manager and most advice assumes managers are...
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How to Manage a Project When the Sponsor Is Missing In Action (MIA)
Sometimes project sponsors are appointed to projects by senior leadership and for various reasons just aren’t engaged in the project. Low engagement can also happen when a sponsor thinks a project is...
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How To Decide Which Business Process To Fix First
When several business processes need work and there are limited resources to get it done, it can be hard to decide which process to attack first. Most of the time when you decide to take a look at...
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How To Develop Metrics For Your Business Processes
Often business processes just happen and there are no measures developed to monitor how they’re doing. Knowing what’s working and what’s not based on the goals you’ve set in your business is a key...
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