Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Eric Morkovich

How to overcome project failure

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How to Overcome Project Failure and Succeed in Project Management

An attempt to overcome previously failed projects and succeed in future initiatives can be challenging. If your project has been launched before but failed for some reasons, most likely your team and other stakeholders have a negative mindset towards the failure reasons can be addressed and a new project will be successful. The customer or/and the sponsor of the failed project may even convince themselves that they no longer need the outcome that was expected for delivery and so they’re not going to give a new try. Meanwhile, a thorough analysis of failed project management (PM) can greatly help understand what was done wrong, develop feasible solutions, and remove any barrier for future success. Below I give a 6-step approach I personally use in my organization to overcome project failure and succeed in PM.

5 Standard Types of Project Management Reports

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5 Standard Types of Project Management Reports

Each specific kind of report takes some time and effort for development, reading, analysis and follow-up. Obviously it would be much faster and cost-effectively for a company if standard types of project reports could be implemented in the reporting process. Several standard report formats would definitely simplify the process, while minimizing waste of time and effort and avoiding misunderstandings between managers and performers.

Control your project in 5 steps

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Project Control in 5 Steps

Project control is a series of processes and steps that a project manager in cooperation with other management staff carries out to control the project in terms of progress, quality, changes, products, commitments and other critical concerns. The ultimate purpose of project control is to manage project work during each stage of the implementation lifecycle and to prepare the project for the next stage. In this article you will find out how to control a project in 5 steps.

Project success best practices

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5 Best Practices for Managing Projects Successfully

The practice of project management embraces a great variety of projects that come in all possible shapes and sizes. Some businesses drive small and simple projects while other companies are involved in managing larger and more complex ones. But whatever project size, type or complexity, there are 5 best practices for managing projects successfully. If you follow these practices, you are likely to keep your project up and successful. If you don’t, there is an increased likelihood that your project will fail, or just end up with no desired result produced. In order to help you do everything right within your project, here are the 5 best practices for managing projects successfully.