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Project Records Management in 3 Steps

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Records Management in Three Essential Steps

Managing records on a project is an essential activity that makes it possible to handle and use project documentation in the way that ensure smooth capturing of documents and papers by seniors, team members, and other stakeholders. Being a part of overall project document management, records management allows a project manager to direct and control document flows throughout the project lifecycle while ensuring that every single document or record serves the operational needs and helps teams capture and retrieve necessary information. It creates a framework for running project activities and procedures and paves the way for analysis, lessons learned, historical reviews, etc.

effective talent management in 4 steps

Templates

Checklist: Effective Talent Management in Four Steps

It’s nearly impossible to make a business flourishing and highly competitive without effective talent management in place. Human resources are the driving power of any business, and talent management helps managers and owners to retain workforce, develop employee skills and improve team performance. Effective talent management allows filling up the skill gap and avoiding performance reductions through recruiting talented employees and developing competencies and knowledge of existing workforce. Managing talents and competencies of employees can be presented as a consistent process that consists of the four key steps, such as Recruitment, Retention, Development and Performance. Each of the steps of effective talent management can divided into sub-steps that better characterize the process and its essence. In this article we present a checklist for carrying out the process in the four key steps.

risk planning process steps

Project Implementation Guide

Project Risk Planning Process: The Key Steps

Any project always generates a kind of challenge that makes the project manager find efficient ways to respond to various threats and uncertainties that may jeopardize successful project completion. Implementation of the risk planning process lets the manager to solve the challenge by planning for potential risks and developing solutions that reduce the likelihood of risk occurrence and mitigate the negative impact of the risks.

Focus on project quality

Project Implementation Guide

Steps to Developing a Project Quality Plan Template

Planning for project quality is a complex process that allows companies to clearly set up quality requirements and document all necessary procedures for managing quality expectations. In terms of successful project implementation, developing a project quality plan template is a critical activity dedicated to creating a documented set of rules to managing both project and product quality. Without a comprehensive project quality plan it is nearly impossible to implement the project and deliver the product on time, under budget and as per stakeholder requirements.

project procurement management process

Project Implementation Guide

Project Procurement Management: 5 Steps of the Process

Managing project procurements and acquisitions requires the project manager to efficiently collaborate with the purchasing department on the process of planning and managing procurements. Project procurement management is a section of the implementation plan to determine how “the ordered products necessary for producing deliverables can be delivered on time and within the allocated budget”. Note that the “Procurement Management” section of the implementation plan will be necessary only for projects that have to deal with substantial buy-in of expertise or capital items. For any other projects where there is no high level of procurement expenditure it is enough to include a procurement item list and a vendors list in the project implementation plan