Rounding out my tips for managing projects, share what you’ve documented. I know…another duh! Another “no kidding”…you might be thinking. I have seen beautiful projects plans in my day that sit in a shared folder or SharePoint team site that don’t get touched, reviewed or updated. The only reason to document a project is to …
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The most basic step I see missed all the time in managing projects is a lack of documentation. I once had an executive tell me that she thought creating project plans was a huge waste of time. She felt some project managers make the project plan the deliverable instead of using the plan to drive …
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Last time, we focused on 3 things to do to keep on track when managing projects. Let’s start with part of the first step: thinking through the objectives. I can’t tell you how often a project gets started with an idea….an even a great idea…and then no one thinks beyond the idea. One of the …
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We all do project work even at the highest levels. A business transformation, a key account pursuit, a merger, an acquisition, a new product launch, a technology roadmap…all of these are projects at their core and involve execution after the strategy is decided. It’s in the execution where I have experienced many miscommunications and missteps. …