Time to add more free stuff to help get it done. This week a quick and easy to use Project Risk template that can be used to create a project risk register for your project. Key words:
Get it FREE here... It is very basic but has all of the elements necessary to communicate effectively. It includes
Use this, re use, adjust it as you need it. It is free. There is a short video just below, explaining how to complete the risk register. Don't forget to check out our resources page as well. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here All products are offered with a money back guarantee. Thanks for reading.....
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Friday 20th November It is Friday 5pm somewhere, time to log off and enjoy the weekend. In the meantime, enjoy a random sample from around the web.... You may also find some of the tools and templates and resources that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here. All products are offered with a money back guarantee. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! Thanks for reading. Andrew Thanks for reading. Andrew
Time to add more free stuff to help get it done.
This week a quick weekly status report template that can be used to send to your boss or manager on how your project is going. Get it FREE here... It is very basic but has all of the elements necessary to communicate effectively. It includes
Don't forget to check out our resources page as well. Using this template you can then have a more structured conversation with your boss about where you need help or focus. Often project managers can get distracted when talking with their boss because they don't have a structured status report and miss the opportunity to ask for help. Use this, re use, adjust it as you need it. It is free. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here All products are offered with a money back guarantee. Thanks for reading.....
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." — Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love[1][2] In addition a human being should be able to scope and quote for a new piece of business. This short video focuses on how to scope and quote for a technology or Information Technology project, however the basic concepts are the same for most projects. People who should watch this video....
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The complete e-guide on how to price a project and roll out quotes is available FREE when you subscribe. You can subscribe here. The project quote tool, which is our most popular product is also available in our store. You can download it here, which you can use over and over again to quote for your projects. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done !
It is Friday 5pm somewhere, time to log off and enjoy the weekend. In the meantime, enjoy a random sample from around the web.... You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here. All products are offered with a money back guarantee. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! Thanks for reading. Andrew Everett
This checklist contains a series of questions aimed at finding if the project has been completed as planned, proposed and as agreed.
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Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! You may also find some of the tools and templates that I have used to deliver projects for startups here, including the most popular item in the store, a project quote tool that helps you build a fully costed project commercial model. You can find it here. All products are offered with a money back guarantee. Thanks for reading..... Project close checklist
Thanks for reading Innovation Delivery Checklist A short post on how to deliver innovation. I often get asked how to deliver innovation and end up responding that innovation is not a product, you can not build 10 units of innovation. Instead it is a framework that you set up that allows innovation to flourish and creative ideas to evolve. Setting up that framework can be hard, you need a checklist. Are you enjoying this blog? If so, please forward this to a friend or colleague and suggest that they sign up here. It is free and you will receive a coupon code to allow a free download from our store + regular updates on tools, templates and interviews to help get it done ! Thanks for reading..... Innovation Delivery Checklist Key words
Define Innovation Innovation generally refers to changing or creating more effective processes, products and ideas, and can increase the likelihood of a business succeeding. Businesses that innovate create more efficient work processes and have better productivity and performance. For businesses, this could mean implementing new ideas, creating dynamic products or improving existing services. Innovation can be a catalyst for the growth and success of business, and help you adapt and grow in the marketplace. Being innovative does not mean inventing; innovation can mean changing your business model and adapting to changes in your environment to deliver better products or services. Successful innovation should be an in-built part of your business strategy, where you create a culture of innovation and lead the way in innovative thinking and creative problem solving. Businesses that innovate create more efficient work processes and have better productivity and performance. Innovation is not so much as structuring a process but more about creating enough freedom to see differently, act differently, and aim higher. Delivering the Innovation Process A useful technique can be to breakdown the process into a series of steps so that the process of seeking and implementing new and innovative ideas can be controlled and structured to a certain extent. I have used the acronym DEAL to summarise the innovation delivery checklist process. I have used this process to successfully deliver innovation for a number of technology projects. To see more resources that you can use, check out the resources page, here. DEAL
Step #1- Define With any project it is important to define what you are after. This can be in terms of objective or might be a process improvement. As part of this process it is often useful to benchmark your starting point so that you have data to compare against. I did a project for a client to improve the quote turnaround process. We started with benchmarking the full cycle of the quote process which started with receiving the request from the client, validating and seeking approval of that request, analyzing and preparing the quote, getting the quote approved the internal due diligence process, issuing the quote, responding to customer queries on the quote and finally closing and getting sign off on the quote. We needed to benchmark each of the steps in the process in terms of days to be able to understand and see whether any changes made would improve the process. Define what you are after. Once we had the steps defined and benchmarked we could see where improvements were reducing the turnaround time. Step # 2 Eliminate Overhead and legacy are natural barriers to innovation. Just because something has always been done a particular way does not mean that it cannot be improved or enhanced. To drive innovation you need to remove this legacy thinking and strip back what you are trying to innovate and improve and focus on the core of what you are doing. At a client that I worked with there was a legacy of management reporting in the process by which sales orders were called out. The result was that the poor sales person was required to enter and maintain his forecast in 4 different systems. There was constant pressure to keep the systems in sync, as they were being used and tracked by different back office teams. The overhead meant of course that the sales people were spending more and more of their time updating four different systems rather than working on new leads and closing sales. Step #3 Action Innovation will not magically appear; it needs to be worked on. People and teams tasked with delivering innovation and process improvements need to take action. This can start with a lean canvas method used by many start-ups to paint out how the delivery maps to what the vision and values of the project or business relates to. This forces everyone to review what they are striving for and creates feedback loops. Once the lean canvas is mapped out then a process of iterative testing and validation can be used to enhance the process. The feedback loops, data created and testing ensure that the process improvements keep lining up with what the vision/value/ objective of the project was. Unless the project keeps checking back there is a risk that process improvements may be made but which do not relate to the initial project objective. This is a process of action, test, validate, innovation, win. For example I did a cloud-based project in the early days of SAAS (Software as a service). We started with a prototype offering where customers started with a 2 CPU offering for their virtual machines. The expectation was that almost 80% of customers would like the service and upgrade to the next level and use more computing power. At the end of the 1st month, there had been no upgrades or upsells. However we noticed that most customers were using 90% of their CPU capacity, for most of the month. Using this data we did an email update to the customers offering a free upgrade to a higher number of CPUs as we had noticed their utilization was running so high. The offer was free for a month and then they could choose to downgrade or continue and pay the increased service price. The result was a 100% conversion and upsell at the end of the 2nd month. Step #4 Liberate Finally enough creative thinking time needs to be allocated to allow staff and teams to deliver innovation. Like Atlassian and the Nobel Prize winners this needs to be baked in as a regular activity so that it is continual process and not just a once off. People need to feel that they own the innovation and creativity process. They just need to be given the time to do so. |
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For the project office to use. A list of things to check off in managing a project grouped into sections from scope, time, budget, quality and management. Instantly check the health of any project by scoring against these 117 questions.
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The following is a project checklist, which can be used by project managers, program managers, delivery managers, pre sales consultants and anyone who is focused on ensuring that all areas of a project are being managed to ensure successful delivery. It is organised around the lifecycle of a project from initiation through delivery and close out.
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