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Articles by Jason Westland
Project Documentation: 25 Essential Project Documents
Project managers know the importance of project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? This guide defines what project documentation is and why it’s important in addition to outlining the top 25 project documents that you should always create to plan and execute your projects.
Best of PMTimes: The Five Goals of a Project Manager
As a project manager, you need to manage people, money, suppliers, equipment—the list is never ending. The trick is to be focused. Set yourself five personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. Regardless of your level of experience in project management, set these five goals for every project you manage.
6 Tips for Developing Cross-Functional Teams
ProjectManager.com Feb 22, 2018 | By Jason Westland in Leadership Do cross-functional teams lead to greater project success? It depends on who you ask. Some people believe cross-functional teams can be very productive, given they have clear governance, accountability, specific goals, suitable project management tools, as well as the organization to invest in and prioritize their success.
Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog: A Quick Guide
Agile project management can be a great help in a wide variety of projects, but if it is not fully understood, there will be problems. In Agile, there are unique terms and ways of working that can be bewildering for those new to the methodology. Unfortunately, if the whole team is not familiar with the Agile framework and its terms, things can become inefficient.
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5 Stress-Free Reporting Tips
Reporting is a formal and informal way to communicate the status of a project. But many project leaders find project reporting dull paper-pushing. Worse, reporting often causes anxiety as your pulled away from managing to relaying information to your stakeholders. There’s a way to take the pain out of reporting, and online project management tools can help. They offer features for you to generate the reports easily and efficiently.
How Managers Prevent Team Collaboration (Without Meaning To)
This is a guest article by Jason Westland, CEO of ProjectManager.com. Collaboration remains the managerial buzzword of the moment. Every leader wants their team to collaborate, because we’ve all read how collaboration leads to innovation. But if you’ve been trying a variety of collaboration strategies and tools, and you’re just not getting the innovation or return-on-investment (ROI )you banked on… well, what’s going on? Every manager knows that leadership starts at the top.
Planning for growth requires proper planning. As a former project manager, and CEO of a project management software company, I know firsthand that planning is a skill that takes dedication and a commitment of follow-through. You can't succeed with any pla
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