Our guest blogger today, Jason Westland, has 15 years experience in the project management industry. From his experience he has created software to help speed up the management process. If you would like to find out more information about Jason’s online project management software visit ProjectManager.com. As a Project Manager, you need to manage people,...
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Tags: budgeting, Customers, jason westland, pm goals, pm software, Requirements, Scheduling, Teams
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Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast Newsletter delivered by email for free! – Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented. Today we continue our series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines! In Episode 045,...
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Get the pm411.org Project Management Podcast Newsletter delivered by email for free! – Your email address and personal information are confidential and will never be sold or rented. Today we continue our series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines! Last episode we...
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Today we will be starting a series on Schedule Killers – those tendencies and traits of project teams that cause us to miss our deadlines! And the first schedule serial killer of project teams that we will be discussing is called… “The Student Syndrome!”
In this episode we cover:
1.) What is Student Syndrome?
2.)...
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“It has been said that artists never actually finish a song. That is why we need record producers. On your project, are you an artist or a producer?” - Ron Holohan
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Write a review of the pm411.org Podcast in iTunes! Today we look at some of the new features of the latest version of Mindmanager Pro 8.0 mindmapping software from Mindjet. In this episode we take a look at some of the great new schedule task features. Now you can get a quick overview plus...
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Tags: mindmanager, mindmapping, PM Video, software
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Today’s guest blogger, Brian Buck, is an Organizational Improvement Consultant and Project Manager in the healthcare industry. He is studying for the PMP and hopes his three year experience requirement kicks in before the new PMBOK comes out (or else he will have to study some more)! He specializes in Lean improvements and loves...
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Tags: andon, lean, Teams, toyota
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Creating a comprehensive schedule is one of the more difficult activities that Project Managers face. Schedule creation is often considered more art than science – and results often support this. What is often more frustrating is that team members often find themselves on one team with a project manager that creates and manages schedules...
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