Project Management

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What Is a Project Charter? (And 6 Templates)

The project charter is the blueprint for what you’re going to get done and how you’ll be doing it. Here’s how you can create your own.

A guide to Kanban methodology in Azure DevOps

This guide to Kanban methodology for Azure DevOps teams provides an overview and best practices for ramping up your efficiency.

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What is Lean Project Management?

Lean project management means hitting your project’s goals while stripping out inefficient processes and other wasteful practices. Here’s how project managers can do it.

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What is Project Portfolio Management?

If you’re a project manager who’s constantly juggling multiple projects, stakeholders, team members, and business goals, you know just how easy it is to get wrapped up in the smaller details of your day-to-day work. […]

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What Is a Project Management Consultant?

When you don’t have an in-house project manager, your team is used to managing projects themselves. But sometimes you need an expert. That’s when you bring in a project management consultant.

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How to Effectively Manage Software Development Projects

Managing software development projects brings its own unique challenges. Here’s how project managers can get a handle on them.

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Project Collaboration: A Definition and a Step-by-Step Guide

By actively looking into your project collaboration process, you can help teams get more done, be more efficient, and keep stakeholders happy.

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How to Successfully Closeout a Project and Why It’s Important

With a project closeout, project managers can make sure project deliverables go to the right place, and take a project’s lessons and roll them out to future initiatives.

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What Is a Project Management Workflow?

A project management workflow is essential for keeping your projects in-scope and on-budget. Here’s how to build yours.

Project Tracking: How Project Managers Keep Things From Falling Apart

Project tracking is how project managers ensure that their project doesn’t go off the rails. Here’s how it’s done — and what to watch out for.

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8 Transformative Ways You Can Use Project Management Automation (And Why)

Project management automation can save you time, eliminate mistakes from manual data entry, and more. Here’s our breakdown of how these automations work and what they’ll do for you.