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User Impact Assessment (IT)This template guides the team through an assessment of the user impacts of technology changes, so they can better understand those possible impacts. A small investment early in the project will allow better planning and communication and a smoother deployment experience for everyone.
Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) CharterThis annotated charter outline, provided by experienced and highly successful PMO Director Lisa DiTullio of Lisa DiTullio and Associates, walks PMO heads and stakeholders through key success factors for launching an enterprise-wide Project Management Office.
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Communication Plan: Status, Meetings, Info Access, and Reviews
We've Just Been Tweeting Our Status…
Social media are great, but some situations call for… shall we say, more formal arrangements? Even if your project runs by the seat of its proverbial pants, it pays to make sure everyone knows where, when, and how they can find out what's going on. Otherwise, you may find them inventing their own channels of communication, which may not be well suited to conveying the information everyone needs to get over the finish line. It's all about setting expectations; make sure they're grounded in practicality and need.
Communication Plan: Status, Meetings, Info Access, and Reviews
We've Just Been Tweeting Our Status…
Social media are great, but some situations call for… shall we say, more formal arrangements? Even if your project runs by the seat of its proverbial pants, it pays to make sure everyone knows where, when, and how they can find out what's going on. Otherwise, you may find them inventing their own channels of communication, which may not be well suited to conveying the information everyone needs to get over the finish line. It's all about setting expectations; make sure they're grounded in practicality and need.
Get Results by Expecting Them
How the performance and commitment you get result from what you "expect"
I sat facing the new VP, waiting for our meeting to start–and wondering whether I was about to get fired from my Director of Engineering role. Either that, or I was about to get lectured, hammered, chided, and/or warned, for not being an experienced enough manager to suit him. After all, he had just been brought in to replace the founder of our start-up ("Time to have some professional management now that the big company has bought you guys") and I was in my late 20s and even younger and less management-experienced than the founder. I was expecting the worst…
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Find out how ProjectConnections can help you get your projects done. In just 4 minutes, we'll walk you through all of our major features and show you how to find the answers, tools, and templates you need to solve your project management puzzles—answers to over a hundred common Burning Questions; articles, interviews, and papers from real-world project managers with real-world solutions; and hundreds of time-saving tools and templates. All it takes is a Flash-compatible browser, speakers, and 4 minutes.
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Burning Questions
Our take at frequently asked questions on managing projects – including those nuanced, "How do I REALLY do this?" questions. See them all »
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- Keeping risk from disrupting a project
- Project manager and executive roles in determining project goals and scope
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Featured Article
Falling in Love with GREAT Communications
 Carl Pritchard |
We all acknowledge that a significant amount of our success or failure is rooted in our abilities to communicate. And yet we don't invest a lot of time thinking about how to turn our mundane communications into opportunities for others to fall in love with us and our message. I raised this specter in a recent class and got an interesting array of responses from my students. Rather than simply share my insights, I offer theirs here with a simple suggestion. Pick two. Steel yourself to try them consistently. Make them a personal mission. You'll be surprised by the shift. Read More » |
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