Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

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PM Tips & Ideas

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.

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Business & Finance

Reaching Effective Policy Management in Five Steps

A corporate policy provides a broad understanding of the opportunities and issues organizations deal with. Effective policy management allows directing and restricting company activity and employee behavior. Managing the corporate policy effectively helps ensure that every employee knows the strategic goals, shares the business vision, and commits to overall business success. In this article I explore 5 steps for building effective policy management.

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Project Implementation Guide

Project Implementation Schedule: The Key Components

A well-designed project implementation schedule clarifies and describes what the project should deliver and within what time-frames. In this article you will read on how to create a time-related framework that helps project planners to deal with the “on time” part of the project objectives and what needs to be outlined to produce deliverables and achieve goals on schedule, within budget and according to expectations.

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PM Tips & Ideas

The Planning Process – Ten Simple Steps to Planning a Project

The project planning process is one of the high-level management processes that make the project lifecycle. It is a complex of tasks for setting up a project plan and also defining subsidiary plans. The project planning process is closely linked to the planning phase which is the second phase within the project lifecycle, according to the PMBOK methodology. It comes after the Initiating Process Group (by PMBOK) and the Direct Project (by PRINCE2). For some project managers, planning a project is a real challenge and sometimes they feel confused when trying to define a problem, develop a strategy, build a WBS, establish communications, build teams and so on