Author: Alex Carter
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A Project Manager’s Best Practices for a Project Takeover
Sometimes you don’t nurture a project all the way through. Occasionally, you may be saddled with picking up a project right in the middle and having to get it past the finish line on time and within budget. While this can sometimes be a challenge (depending on how organized the project was before you arrived),…
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Best Practices for Project Managers Trying to Avoid Scope Creep
As a project manager, you will have to deal with scope creep from time to time. Scope creep can happen when a client or stakeholder tries to add new deliverables or tasks to your project beyond the agreed-upon scope of the project. While, from a stakeholder perspective, the small changes or requests may seem like…
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Jira Align: A Brief Introduction
It’s important to plan agile business strategies and to make them scalable across the entire company, especially when it comes to large companies. Atlassian’s Jira Align will support you on your journey to agile and digital transformation. Jira Align is also rated at the top of the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2020 report, as one of…
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Project Management Best Practices 2023
2023 is here, so how are your projects going? If you are still struggling to find your rhythm or are looking for new ways to tighten up your project management skills, try these best practices to finish the last half of the year off strong. Talk to Your Team to Properly Estimate Inputs While, as…
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The Parallels Between CEOs and Project Managers
As a project manager, you have a lot in common with the Chief Executive Officer. The overlap is excellent, as basically, all major undertakings within an organization are projects at their core. As a result, projects are often strategically important and extremely visible. However, their success or failure can significantly affect a company, and successful…
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If You’re a CFO, Here’s How You Can Help Your Project Managers
As a CFO, you have an essential role in any ongoing project in your business. Here’s how you can help support your project managers to help ensure the overall success of projects. Offer Structure and Consistency Nothing can set a project into a tailspin faster than a lack of proper funding. As a CFO, you…
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Project Management Best Practices for DevOps
DevOps has brought about a lot of fundamental business changes. However, while companies tend to focus on code writers, QA, and those provisioning and supporting infrastructure, as DevOps spreads and becomes more integral to the business, speed and agility in every aspect of work take on new importance. That doesn’t mean traditional project management approaches…
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How To Set Up Projects for Success as a Project Manager
The work you do before a project starts matters just as much (and sometimes more) than what you do during a project. Having a smooth rollout, adhering to deadlines, and understanding who is responsible for what work must be clearly outlined before even one task is assigned. If you want your project to succeed, start…
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How Startups Can Successfully Tackle Project Management
Project management must be treated quite differently from an enterprise-level organization when you are a startup. Startups need to be agile and pivot at a moment’s notice. Where more mature organizations may be able to plan months or even years in advance and have the funding locked in to handle marketing budgets, sales cycles, and…