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Forget These Project Stakeholders and You’re Toast
Forget a project stakeholder and you’re toast. We mean it. Understanding the needs, expectations, and potential issues of project stakeholders is crucial to the success of any project. Ask the right questions and you will find stakeholders in all sorts of places you wouldn’t expect. We came up with with these must-not-forget stakeholders for a major community construction…
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In Case You Missed It: PMI Global Congress 2015
Last month was a blur. We read 2,000 tweets so you don’t have to. [View the story “PMI Congress 2015” on Storify]
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What Disastrous Communications Management Looks Like
Even though the project stakeholder said things were okay, the mumbling, the failure to meet your eye, and the sighing all tell a different story. Now you’re stuck with bad information that could potentially throw off project assumptions or project schedule. You’ll need to investigate further to get to the truth, but be careful: this…
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Test Prep Tuesday: Know Your Quality Tools
Can you name the Project Management Quality charts? How about what you use them for? Project managers juggle plenty of project data and for good reason: it’s potentially very useful in making decisions to implement continuous process improvement. What’s a project manager to do then? Visualize, of course. The below charts/diagrams are put to good…
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5 PMP Exam Tips to Master With Your Morning Coffee
Situational questions on the PMP® exam are hard, especially if your experience as a project manager has been with an organization that doesn’t commit to PMI’s ideas word for word. Do what you must at your job, but commit these mottos to memory for the PMP exam. Human Resources: Confronting isn’t bad—it’s a problem solving-approach…
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5 Megaprojects to Watch in 2016
If you really want to get a grip on the importance of stakeholder management, it’s good to think mega on your PMP exam. Megaprojects are undertakings with long, complex, and critical front ends. They are usually very expensive and quite public. Here, initiating and planning are key (remember mega project, mega mistakes!) Watch these megaprojects…
