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Project Status Reports
Professional formatting, concise language, and consistent organization all make it easier to compare status from one report to the next, and from one project to the next. This template provides several different example formats, so you can communicate about your projects consistently and effectively.

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Project Scope Definition: Mission Statement
A motivating, business-driven mission statement can make the difference for your team between caring about the project and just trying to survive it. Give the team something to rally around. This guideline provides examples and suggestions to help you do it.

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Burning Questions

One of our soft spots here at ProjectConnections is what we call the hair-on-fire PM—the one handed a flaming pile of project and told, "I'd like a status update by Friday, thanks." But burning questions can come from all angles. How do I get people to stick to the agenda in meetings? How do I make our action items really mean something?

Our revamped burning questions index links you to answers like these, so you can get in, get a focused answer from real project managers who have been there, and get back to your project with a clear head and a flame-retardant suit.

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View our repository of over 200 project management templates, checklists, and guidelines organized into typical project phases and key activities in each. Click on a phase to see our resources for that phase.

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What Makes a Project "Agile"? Part 7: Iterative Planning

Alan Koch

Embracing the plan for an Agile project is an exercise in embracing ambiguity! We don't pretend to be able to predict all that will happen, so it makes no sense to speculate about the details we can only guess about. What we do is to document what is known (or believed to be true) at the time, forecast how the project will play out if those things prove to be true, and commit to work together to bend those expectations to whatever realities we discover throughout the project. Read More »

– Indexes by PMBOK® Category If you've ever wished for a faster way to correlate our templates and resources to PMI's major categories, you'll love our new indexes, which do exactly that. Slice down through our huge template library by PMBOK® Knowledge Area or PMBOK® Process Group.

– What Good Is a Compass Without a Map? – Business Process Modeling Technique Brief – PREMIUM
A vague idea of where you're going might get you there eventually, but it sure helps to have a detailed map that shows you how to get there. This brief by Sinikka Waugh of Your Clear Next Step, LLC outlines how to go about creating maps of your business processes, when and why you should bother, and what techniques you should consider using. Beyond the how and why, it also addresses who to get on the team, and what to do after you've developed the model so you can be sure your work doesn't go to waste. If you're considering any new integration, software requirements, compliance activity, or process improvements, it's worth understanding how to take this critical step in defining your project scope.

– Yes, You're Really Worth It to Them – How to Get Control Over Your Time – PREMIUM
"Time is money"—believe it. One approach to getting control of our time is to take this old adage seriously. If you need convincing, make a quick calculation of what it costs your organization to pay you (including benefits, taxes, and bonus), seat you in an office, and equip you with tools, administrative support, and executive management. If you are salaried, a reasonable estimate of your total burdened cost is your gross pay multiplied by a factor of 2 to 3 and divided down to get an hourly rate. These are surprisingly large numbers, and it is real money that we burn every hour. Yet the care we take in our management of time often falls far short of the basic controls, safeguards, and reviews that we use as a matter of course in managing our organizational and personal finances. Click to continue »

I'll Buy That for a Dollar – Calculating Expected Monetary Value of Risks – PREMIUM
It's almost never a good idea to spend a dollar buying your way out of a 50-cent problem but for a $5,000 risk it's a no brainer. Which one are you facing, and what is it worth to avoid it? This template helps teams assess the financial impact of a given risk and determine how much time and money to spend avoiding it. It explains how to use this technique on macro- and micro-levels on your project, and how to establish a reasonable, rational risk budget for your project. Yes, you read correctly—you can and should have a budget for dealing with project risks. That will make it easier to spend a bit when you need to, and establish limits for risk mitigation activities that are worth management attention.

Can't We Put This Project Out of Our Misery? – Project Cancellation Guidelines – PREMIUM
Sometimes it seems there are projects that nothing goes right… and sometimes, it's actually true. We don't like to talk about it, but there are times we're better off letting go and putting the past behind us. But there might be ways to salvage the situation and still provide some value for all your effort so far. This guideline discusses how to make the all-important go/no-go decision when confronted with a struggling project: how to evaluate the situation, how to reboot if there's a way to save it, and how to shut things down gracefully if it's really best to close the books and move on.

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