Mary Levinson | Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices - Part 25

Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Mary Levinson

Project Constraints and Assumptions - A Planning Checklist

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Project Constraints and Assumptions – A Planning Checklist

Efficient planning for project success significantly depends on the right statement of the constraints and assumptions. Why are constraints and assumptions in project management so important? The answer is that because setting proper project constraints and assumptions paves the way for adequate risk analysis, efficient project planning and timely project delivery. This article is intended to give you definitions of both project constraints and project assumptions and also show what steps can be taken to determine the key characteristics of project success.

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Agile PM Adoption – The Challenges and the Steps

Traditional project delivery has similar principles and practices with the agile project management methodology (Agile PM methodology). Both approaches aim to deliver measurable results in timely manner. Agile PM adoption – or a transition from the traditional project delivery approach to the agile project methodology – becomes a quite predictable and manageable activity that can be accurately planned in a sequence of simple steps taken before any actual development process takes place.

Marketing PM software

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Key Software Tools to Succeed in Marketing Projects

Taking into account today’s business efficiencies, marketing project management is one of the key business management activities to take the highest opportunity in an organization for improving performance and increasing the overall business growth. Marketing project management software is a solution that allows performing the marketing function efficiently through using the principles of project management and planning. It paves the way for focusing marketing project managers and planners on analyzing customer orientation and investigating ways for satisfying customer needs through developing detailed plans, scheduling marketing projects, analyzing and mitigating risks, monitoring performance, building marketing project reports and measuring success. In this article we’ll describe several key marketing project management tools that help establish a working environment in which marketers, analysts and planners can efficiently plan, do, monitor and report marketing project initiatives.

How to Write a Feasibility Study Report (FSR) Template

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How to Write a Feasibility Study Report (FSR)

Conducting a feasibility study is one of the key activities within the project initiation phase. It aims to analyze and justify the project in terms of technical feasibility, business viability and cost-effectiveness. The study results serves as a way to prove the project’s reasonability and need for launch. Once the study is done, a feasibility study report (FSR) should be developed to summarize the activity and state if the particular project is realistic and practical. Let’s find out what FRS means, why it’s important and how to write it.

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5 Tips on Managing Project Delivery Successfully

The goal of managing the success of project delivery is to accomplish projects on time, under budget and as per customer expectations and user requirements. Your great effort for delivering your project should be focused on solving key issues such as risks, unexpected changes, poor communications, late completion, etc. In this short publication we’re going to give you several basic tips on how to deliver projects successfully.