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Beginner's Guide to Project Portfolio Management

If you work in a large organization, you’re no stranger to project overload. The demand is there, but the question is, should you bite? Is the project aligned with the company’s goals and objectives? What are the risks vs the rewards? Do you have the necessary resources to successfully execute and deliver on this project? Project Portfolio Management (PPM) examines all of these questions and more.

Will Project Managers Be Replaced By Bots and AI?

Project management AI can use this understanding of large data and trends within it to uncover insights, performs more complex tasks, and make decisions and recommendations at a level at which regular humans aren’t able to do today.

5 Benefits of Project Workflow Management Systems

A workflow is a sequence of steps required to complete a task. In your workplace, you might know workflows as business processes. In a workflow, the work moves from one point to another, to another, until the work is complete. At each step in the workflow there is a transition, or handover.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Future of Project Management

Although the term has been around for several decades now; for many, it still holds a science fiction ring to it. With varying understandings and interpretations of the concept it’s no surprise that feelings towards AI continue to be vastly mixed, even today. On the one side, you have those worrying about the ethical and existential implications or simply fearing AI will rob them of a job and render human labour futile. And, then there are those who are fantasizing about the scope of potential advance in all areas of our lives from science and healthcare to entertainment and travel.

3 Tools for Understanding Your Project Team’s Interfaces

There are a seemingly never-ending set of working relationships on projects. Project managers need to understand the interfaces between themselves, their immediate project team and others in the organization. Understanding those relationships helps get work done. You know who to speak to, how information moves around the business and who needs to take key decisions.

7 Steps to Close Your Project Effectively

What’s the most important part of a project? You might say: starting effectively, with a fully-thought through business case. Or the execution stage, where you are monitoring and controlling the work in order to hit your targets and deadlines.

But there’s another area of the project that is arguably more important than either of those: closure.

When a project isn’t finalised and handed over to the support teams effectively, there are several risks. Ultimately, what’s at stake is the effective delivery of benefits. Yes, the reason you did the project in the first place. If your project customers can’t make use of what you have given them, they won’t use it. If they don’t use it, the organization doesn’t receive the planned benefits. And if the planned benefits aren’t delivered, the whole project was, well, kind of pointless, right? In this white paper we’re going to discuss how to avoid that.

How Collaboration Differs Between Company Cultures

How does the company you’re in work? Do they operate in a creative and unstructured way, or is everything bureaucratic and ordered? There’s multiple types of cultures that can exist within the workforce. They can typically be defined in two ways described in this whitepaper. Find out which you belong to, and how to choose a software that fits your needs.

The Benefits of Visual Project Management

People with a visual preference for capturing information have always doodled or mindmapped their To Do lists, whereas those with a preference for creating lists opt for an ordered list of tasks. What we’re seeing now is that project management tools are getting better at catering for both preferences, and making it easier to share information visually with the people who need it. And at the same time, making it easier for everyone else to grasp complex ideas through simple graphics.

Project managers need to think about how they can break away from long documents and present project progress and other project information in a graphical format. Somewhat ironically, we’re going to talk more about that in this white paper.

How to Prepare Your Project Schedule More Quickly

It used to be a lot harder to schedule project work because the tools we had weren’t as good as the ones available today. It also took a long time to get people together, whereas today we can meet virtually. Today, you can get your project team up and running quickly with an accurate schedule. And in this document we’ll explain how.

How to Prepare For Project Initiation

Project initiation is when most project managers get involved in a project for the first time. The project itself might have been talked about for months, and has probably spent time being scrutinized by senior management. Your leadership team might have seen several versions of the business case and finally they’ve made the decision to go ahead with this piece of work.

That’s when a project manager normally gets involved, although sometimes project managers assist with preparing the business case too. Once that business case is approved the hard work really begins. In this white paper, we set out the essentials to have in place prior to beginning the execution of any project including set up of the team and tools, and securing sponsorship.

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Head of Programmes & Service Development