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Planning Planet Events: Form Real Connections

6 years 11 weeks ago

It is so easy to find connections and engage in business with others over LinkedIn or email – just click ‘connect’ and you’re done. However, nothing quite compares to old fashioned face-to-face conversations; you can easily make more progress in a 10 minute face-to-face conversation with someone than through weeks of messaging on LinkedIn. This is why Planning Planet set up gatherings across

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Value of Visual Inspection

6 years 11 weeks ago

Recently, my wife and I took a trip.  We were at the airport.  Our flight was delayed.  She was sitting with her back to the window and checking the flight’s status on her iPhone. She said that we should start boarding in 5 minutes.  I looked out the window and replied, “I don’t think so.”  The gate was empty.  There was no plane

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Sample Building schedule

6 years 16 weeks ago

Attached sample Primavera and MS Project schedule for reference

 

http://projectplanner.in/projects/simple-building-project/ 

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Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

6 years 16 weeks ago

Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM).  On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy.  We want to align our fi\unding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives.  Since budgets are limited, this becomes a constrained optimization problem, which most easily performed in the classroom.

Investment portfolio

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Enterprise Project Management and Governance

6 years 18 weeks ago

Enterprise Project Management enables control within projects and programmes, management of constraints and resources across the portfolio, and assurance. However – if it’s not supporting decision making, half of the value is lost – and if your decision making is dysfunctional – then why bother?

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/P3MGovernance

Please take the survey

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Waging the War Against Burnout—Infographic

6 years 20 weeks ago

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a Super Project Manager!

True, they don’t wear capes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. But today’s Super Project Managers are fearlessly fighting back against the sworn enemies of project success: lack of visibility, misallocated resources, poor collaboration, disconnected teams—and the list goes on.

However, fighting

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Leading Organizational Change

6 years 21 weeks ago

I spent most of my career in management, leading teams in fast-paced, ever-changing companies.  I have a lot of experience with organizational change. I led teams through reorganizations.  I have also been reorganized.  

Change is often necessary.  Today’s business environment is disruptive.  Enterprises must adapt.  However, the

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FREE WHITE PAPER From PM Solution Pro

6 years 21 weeks ago
FREE WHITE PAPER From PM Solution Pro (https://www.pmsolutionpro.com) “Remember this! Plan to Schedule, Schedule to Plan” underlines the misconception plaguing all fields of management. It briefly explains that a clear line of sight must always exist between risk-based planning and risk-based scheduling. It proves
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Tips for Creating Effective Gantt Charts

6 years 23 weeks ago

Gantt charts are widely used by project management teams to recognize the current status and plan the upcoming activities of the project. Activities are represented as horizontal bars and the length of the bar shows the activity duration.

- Make a Task List at an Appropriate Level of Detail

Task lists should be created at an appropriate level of detail in

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