Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

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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

project staffing plan in 3 steps

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Staff Management in 3 Steps (A Quick Checklist)

Simply saying, project staff management is a series of process for ensuring that the right people with the right abilities and tools are assigned to the right tasks at the right time. Developing a staffing plan helps project managers to perform the processes of effective staff management which is one of the most important factors in leading a project to a successful outcome. In this article we briefly review the key steps to creating a project staffing plan

business risk mitigation

Business & Finance

Business Risk Mitigation, or How Good Leaders Respond to Business Crisis Situations

Business risk mitigation is one of the most prioritized tasks of good leaders and managers who tend towards reaching the best management practices. While an ability to efficiently respond to business crisis situations is critical for planning the mitigation of business risks and uncertainties, there are other driving forces that should be taken into account by crisis managers and executives when developing a business risk mitigation strategy.

agile PM

PM Framework

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

PM Tips & Ideas

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.