project management hacks

Project Management Hacks, Tips and Tricks

With these project management tips and tricks, you’ll learn how to reduce administrative glut and get more done! As project managers, we are often asked to do more with less.  Replying “No” to a request from your leadership team isn’t the wisest career move.  Instead, we need to find creative ways to save time and [...]

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Tactical Project Management Community of Practice

Tactical Project Management Community of Practice

A few years ago, I worked for a company that sponsored a formal community of practice to promote lessons learned, best practices and improve the practice of project management. The experience was an awesome one as project managers across the company came together to share real world techniques to help each other’s projects to improve. [...]

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project management survey

Improving Project Management Efficiency Survey

What short cuts or tips to you apply to reduce project management administration? I am creating a presentation for an upcoming PMI lecture and wanted your advice.  The topic is on Improving PM efficiency and reducing project management overhead and administration. I’m looking for your favorite tips, tools and techniques to reduce project management headaches [...]

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Lessons Learned with MS Project Survey

I’m working on a new presentation on Lessons Learned with Microsoft Project. I’d like to augment the presentation with your input. Would you mind answering a 2 question survey?

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Figure 4 - Behind Schedule filter Late Task Filter Microsoft Project

Finding Late Tasks with Microsoft Project Custom Filters

When managing a project schedule of even a moderate size, it’s valuable to be able to quickly identify late tasks without scrolling through a large hierarchy of tasks. In Microsoft Project, you can identify incomplete, late, or slipped tasks by using one of these options: Tracking Gantt view Incomplete Tasks filter Late Tasks Assigned to [...]

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Team Development Lessons Learned

If the team can apply the lessons learned in the forming and storming phase, the team progress faster to the norming and performing phase. In this second article, I’ll highlight a few useful lessons learned across the Norming and Performing phases.

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Request for Proposal

Request for Proposal Tips

The Request for Proposal (RFP) process is a purchasing process used to elicit service provider proposals for a specific product, service or solution.  In Information Technology, this often translates into the purchasing of IT services, software or the combination of both.   If you have ever been through an RFP purchasing cycle, then you know managing [...]

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