What are you going to put on your product roadmap? It’s not an easy question. Which product gets the green light? What features need priority? The RICE framework provides a scoring model for product managers when prioritizing roadmaps. RICE is…
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To-do lists are a universal tool for managing work, popular among both managers and employees thanks to their simplicity, the transparency they provide and their effectiveness when it comes to tracking the progress of a project. They can be customized…
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Have you ever gotten stuck trying to schedule a project? If you’re like most of us, the answer is yes. It’s the project management equivalent of writer’s block, and it can majorly slow down your planning. The good news is…
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Timetables, deliverables, resources and even risks—everything that is involved with a project is wrapped up inside the schedule. Arguably one of the single most important aspects to any well-planned project, your schedule dictates which tasks need to be done when,…
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A program is a collection of projects that relate to one another and are therefore managed together to achieve maximum resource allocation efficiencies. The advantages of managing these similar projects make them stand better together than by themselves. However, that…
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Project managers are responsible for tasks across every part of a business. They have to schedule work, manage people, manage budgets and wrangle technology—just to name a few. If you had to boil it down and define the core function…
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Timelines allow organizations to estimate how long it will take to execute a project, no matter what industry they’re in. This is done by identifying all the tasks that will be executed, estimating their duration and then determining their start…
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People seem to have been writing about planning for as long as they have been writing. No surprise there. No enterprise, whether it’s assembling the space shuttle or getting dinner on the table, is done well without a project plan….
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The first step toward building a viable project schedule is organizing activities. One way to get organized is by using an arrow diagram. This is a tool for visualizing activities throughout the entire project. What Is an Arrow Diagram in…
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So, you’ve got a project approved, and you’re ready to kick off the first phase. But have you worked through project development yet? Pause what you’re doing and take a look at how your project has been developed. It might…
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Projects are all about delivering a product or service. Whether you’re working in project management, manufacturing, supply chains or inventory management, you need to deliver something valuable to your customers. This is why lead time is so important. There are…
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A project roadmap is the best way to summarize your project’s what, why and how into an easy-to-understand format that can be shared with anyone. A project management roadmap is a unique tool with a different purpose than similar project…
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Project managers put a lot of time and effort into researching the viability of their project. But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. That’s why a kickoff…
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