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How to Use E-Mail Effectively during Your Project
E-mail is a fast, convenient means of conducting one-way, written communication during a project. For example, you can use e-mail to confirm oral discussions and agreements with project team members. In [more…]
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Supporting Virtual Project Teams with Communication Technology
A virtual project team is a group of people who work together across geographic, time, and organizational boundaries to accomplish a common set of goals and objectives. Although the needs of a virtual [more…]
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What Your Project Plan Should Cover
When you know the goal of your project and you believe it’s possible, you need a detailed project plan that describes how you and your team will make it happen. Include the following in your project-management [more…]
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Project Management: How to Clarify Project Goals
As a project manager, nail down goals before you start planning project-execution details. In your quest to find out what your project is supposed to accomplish and how it fits into your organization’s [more…]
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Motivating Your Project Team with Feedback and Rewards
Getting your team members to appreciate your project’s value and feasibility helps you motivate them initially. However, if the project lasts longer than a couple of weeks, the team’s initial motivation [more…]
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How to Specify Team Member Roles and Procedures
An effective project manager needs to specify team-member roles and communication procedures. After all, nothing causes disillusionment and frustration faster on a project than bringing motivated people [more…]
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What to Do When You Complete a Project
So you're about to complete your (successful) project. Filing the final report, however, isn't the project manager's last task. You need to help your team members transition off the project, acknowledge [more…]
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How to Plan Project Execution
After you’ve developed your project-management plan and set your appropriate project baselines, it’s time to get to work and start executing your project plan. This is often the phase when management gets [more…]
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The Power of Rewards: Show Appreciation during and after Projects
Rewarding people throughout and at the conclusion of a project for their effort and accomplishments confirms to them that they achieved the desired results and met their audience’s needs. It also reassures [more…]
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How to Confirm Team Members’ Participation in a Project
As you start your project, you need to confirm the identities of the people who’ll work to support your project. To do so, verify that specific people are still able to uphold their promised commitments [more…]
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How to Develop a Responsibility Assignment Matrix
Project managers like to use a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) to define the roles of the various project team members. Despite the straightforward nature of the information included in the RAM, [more…]
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How to Choose Project-Management Software
No matter how superb a project manager's organizational skills may be, project-management software is a boon. When your project is sufficiently complex, you can use software for a wide variety of tasks [more…]
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Project Management: How to Determine Project Needs
As a project manager you should have a full understanding of your project’s needs. The needs that your project addresses may not always be obvious. Suppose, for example, that your organization decides [more…]
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How to Develop a Work Breakdown Structure by Brainstorming
How you develop you’re work breakdown schedule (WBS) for a project you're managing depends on how familiar you and your team are with your project, whether similar projects have been successfully performed [more…]
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Maximizing Audience Involvement in Your Project
The project you're managing will benefit if you keep the audience (whether they're groups or individuals) involved through meetings and written communication. To maximize your audiences’ involvement and [more…]
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Develop Project Schedules by Analyzing Network Diagrams
Project managers develop project schedules by analyzing network diagrams — a skill that may seem overwhelming at first. Knowing how to analyze network diagrams requires a little patience and understanding [more…]
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How to Choose Which Risks to Manage in a Project
All identified risks affect your project in some way if they occur (after all, that’s the definition of a risk). However, you may determine that anticipating and minimizing the negative consequences of [more…]
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How to Refine the Budget as a Project Progresses
As a project manager, you create an initial budget for your project. As your project continues you may find that your budget needs to be updated. To refine your budget as your project moves through its [more…]
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Create a Budget Estimate Using the Bottom-Up Approach
Preparing a budget for your project requires two steps: First you prepare a rough estimate. Then when you move into the organizing and preparing stage of your project, you’re ready to create your detailed [more…]
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Understanding and Managing Risk in Your Project
To manage projects effectively you need to be able to recognize and manage risk. Risk is the possibility that you may not achieve your product, schedule, or resource targets because something unexpected [more…]
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Identify Specific Risks Associated with Project Risk Factors
After you recognize your project’s risk factors, the next step in your project risk assessment is to identify the specific risks that may result from each of your risk factors. With this information in [more…]
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How to Prepare a Risk-Management Plan
Managing risk, like it or not, is a part of a project manager’s reality. A risk-management plan lays out strategies to minimize the negative effects that uncertain occurrences can have on your project. [more…]
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Project Management: How to Coordinate Overlapping Tasks
Overlapping tasks places conflicting demands on your team members. Although successfully addressing tasks that overlap can be more difficult when more than one project manager is involved, the techniques [more…]
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How to Determine Nonpersonnel Resource Needs
The project you are managing may require a variety of important resources (such as furniture, fixtures, equipment, raw materials, and information). Plan for these nonpersonnel resources the same way you [more…]
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How to Work with a Micromanager
Working with a micromanager can be difficult if you don't know how to manage the micromanager. If your boss scrutinizes every move on your project, questions your decisions and methods, and gives unsolicited [more…]
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