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Multi-project planning: how to coordinate teams and resources

Multi-project planning is essential for companies that manage multiple projects simultaneously and need to ensure seamless operations, high-quality results, and cost control. In an increasingly dynamic landscape where resources are often shared, balancing activities, priorities, and availability becomes a true challenge in project management. It is not just a matter of replicating classic planning several…
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Project chat: how to use it to motivate the team
Using a Team chat during a project to speed up communications and improve results? It can not only be useful, but I would say that today it has become almost indispensable. From the pictograms carved in stone to the latest chat apps, humans find always better and faster ways to communicate. Not surprisingly, MSN Messenger,…
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The functional organization
Every organization works on some basic principles and on a particular structure. Working according to the principles of this particular organizational structure allows the achievement of a common goal, as well as the growth and development of the organization and the employees that are part of it. There are different types of organizational structures and…
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The emergency plan in project management
The emergency plan in a project is like the fire prevention plan for a supermarket. You can’t miss it! Uncertainty is an intrinsic part of all projects. The way in which the Project Manager and his team manage the emergency and the change seriously affects the activities and the very success of the project. All…
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Agile coaching: a fundamental approach for new Project Managers
An Agile coach helps organizations with the implementation of the Agile methodology. It helps developing agile teams and facilitates organizational change culture in order to ensure effective results. The goal of an Agile coach is to provide the right knowledge to an agile team. The teams will have to receive the right training and will…
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How to choose a project management software for the third sector
Choosing a project management software is never easy, especially if we are talking about specific sectors. The offer of softwares for project management on the market has in fact exploded exponentially in recent years. These programs are specially designed to improve collaboration between team members and the project manager. They offer a variety of functionalities…
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How to manage an Agile team
Learning to manage an Agile Work Team is not easy. For many companies, becoming more “agile” requires a significant change in the way leaders and managers seek success. The frameworks of managing projects established as Agile are too often considered as models to copy and paste. But if you really want to work fast, deliver the…
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How to best manage project closure
Closing a project is not like turning off a computer. After having apparently finished a project, there is still a lot to do and, even if it does not seem, many things can go wrong. So much time and effort is made in the planning of a project, but often it is forgotten that the…
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Project integration management: how to manage integration in a project
Project management can be complicated, especially when different departments have to work together. As more departments work on the same project, it is likely that each of them will use a different methodology to deliver the results. The methodology chosen is the one to which each department is more accustomed or the one with which…
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The role of the Project Manager changes with disruptive technologies
How are disruptive technologies redefining the Project Manager figure? The third PMI Report addresses exactly this topic. As already highlighted in the previous articles, 1st article and 2nd article, disruptive technologies are revolutionizing entire sectors and entire organizations. In short, they are forcing all organizations to change both what they do and how they do it.…
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The next generation PMO
Our journey into the future continues with the analysis of the second report on disruptive technologies presented by the PMI. You can read the first article here. This time the focus is on the PMO, the department that manages the projects within an organization. The massive chain effect of disruptive technologies is like a powerful…
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What future for Project management? New reports and disruptive technologies
3 Reports to analyze in detail the future of Project Management. 3 reports that the Project Management Institute has just published on the evolution of Project Management taking into consideration the “disruptive” technologies. These reports were presented during the seventh PMO Symposium in Washington CS, where more than 650 project management executives came together to…
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Multigenerational Work Team: Know them to manage them
We talked a few articles ago about the Project Manager and how the management of the project teams should function, not considering the generational difference. We have described, in that article, how today, in a job or in a team, up to 5 generations can be co-present, and this aspect must be managed at best if…
