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How to create a balanced project portfolio
Looking for a way to create a balanced project portfolio? Companies can maximize project benefits and minimize overall project risks by balancing project portfolios. Executives have to analyze and balance …
How project leaders are mastering transformation
Mastering transformational change isn’t easy for any project manager, it takes intentional effort and coordination. Although change management and project management can be mutually exclusive disciplines, the combined efforts of …
How Project Status Reports Add Value
Say the words project status report, and it conjures all kinds of images in the minds of project managers across the globe. These status reports have been developed and used …
Why is managing projects hard?
Many projects are not completed on time and budget or do not deliver the intended business benefits and value even when they finish on time and budget. The data about …
Choosing a framework to evaluate project proposals
Companies are increasingly using projects to manage most of their activities. Managing single projects can produce a loss of transparency and efficiency of the project outlook. To be more effective, …
The power of using facilitation for your project meetings
There are countless situations in the lifecycle of a project where it is not beneficial or recommended for a Project Manager to lead their own project meetings, focus groups, or …
How to support projects and programs with strategic portfolio management
Today’s competition is getting more fierce. In addition, product life cycles are becoming shorter, and never-ending change emphasizes the importance for companies to deliver on strategic intent efficiently. In fact, …
A solution to the dilemma of project success: Programs and benefits realization
Find out more about Programs and benefits realization and improving project success. The concept of success in project management has focused on completing the project on time, within budget, and …
4 Essential tips for creating a project charter
Creating a project charter (following the PMI standard) is one of the first two things that you should accomplish during the initiating phase of the project lifecycle. Identifying your stakeholders …