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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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Sandbagging & Lowballing : Project Estimating (Part 1)

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The goal is to forecast the effort, time, and cost of a project with enough accuracy to avoid disaster. Project managers use some go-to methods to estimate projects. Project managers (PMs) and business analysts (BAs) typically coordinate, and subject matter experts (SMEs) add their fears.

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The Curse of Perfection – Toil and Trouble

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Apologies to Shakespear for making a comparison between Macbeth (1606) and a goofy modern comedy, but I think it’s fitting here. Destructive Perfection Much like Macbeth’s ambition leading to his downfall, a perfectionist can suffer the same fate if the pursuit gets in the way of the goal.

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Project Management Best Practice 6 – A+ Players

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Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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The 5 Goals of a Project Manager | StrategyDriven

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These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these 5 goals for every project you manage. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. The trick is to be focused. Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve.

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Project Management Best Practice 7 – Use of Administrative Support.

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Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Comments One Response to “Project Management Best Practice 7 – Use of Administrative Support&# Alexandre Gauthier says: December 8, 2010 at 11:08 am A lot of team members in a project find it painstakingly difficult to feed information to other members of the team.

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Project Management Best Practice 8 – Roles and Responsibilities.

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Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.