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"The first thing to do is to accept the Project Manager role... Talk with the stakeholders, initiate project communication, get agreement, and let everyone know you're on the job... "
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"Creating a project communication plan is an important part of your job as project manager. You should have a plan for communicating information to stakeholders and for ..."
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"Define the Project Scope. Discover what results the customer is expecting, then get everyone to agree on what you are trying to accomplish."
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"Determine Required Project Results by identifying what you need to accomplish or deliver in order to make good on the project's goals and objectives"
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"Define the Project Work Plan by defining the tasks you have to complete in order to fulfill the requirements and deliverables of the project."
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"Develop the Project Risk Plan by identifying those tasks where your estimates are most likely to be wrong and, of those, the ones with the most adverse impact ..."
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"Create a resource loading plan to allocate the resources to your defined workloads by involving your team members in the planning process, and then identifying ..."
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"Create a Task and Cost schedule by listing the tasks on your time table along with the fixed and variable expenses that go with them..."
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"Implement project status tracking so you can track project status against a baseline and determine how well you are doing against the plan..."
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"Implement Issue and Problem Tracking so your customer or stakeholder can report, and you can track and resolve, problems, issues, unsatisfactory deliverables and other..."
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"Take Corrective Action Promptly on status variances that indicate cost overruns, schedule slippage, deterioration of results, and other problems. Delays on taking action will only result in ..."
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"Report Project Status to stakeholders, including variances, corrective actions taken, and results of the corrections. Keep everyone informed..."
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"Perform a formal project close when all tasks are completed and all deliverables have been met. Announce the completions, conduct an official turnover and signoff ..."
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What is a small project? How do you decide what constitutes a small project? What are the parameters? What are the cutoffs that separate a small project from a large one?
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What are the project management steps and skills needed for managing small projects and how do you bring one in on time and within budget?
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How to manage a personal project - What do you do when you are the sponsor, the customer, and the end user, with only one or two team members?
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Project Estimating -- How to determine what a project will cost, how to set the budget.
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A project management journal is an important tool for keeping a day-by-day record of activities, events, and decisions that occur while the project is underway.
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Project management fundamentals -- what you need to know to start your journey towards becoming a project manager
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Articles on managing small projects that have been published elsewhere on the net.
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Software Review: Planning Force Express Planner -- designed to optimize task schedules and achieve realistic resource allocations.
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Software Review of Clocking IT an Online collaborative Project Management Solution
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Software Review for DeskAway - an online Project management software
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Project Managers need to keep a log of events and decisions associated with the projects they manage. Nothing can do it better than a good journaling tool, and The Journal is a beauty.
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Review of TheActionMachine - Productivity software extraordinaire
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"Software Review: Wrike has a unique approach to keeping project management information via intelligent scanning of email..."
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