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Portfolio HEADWAY Project Plan
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Organizations often undertake the wrong projects and fail to understand if the projects they choose actually provide the expected outcomes. The Portfolio HEADWAY process is a project-focused step-by-step process that will help your organization to select the right projects, manage those projects well and, realize the expected benefits. Put Portfolio HEADWAY to work for your organization.
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IT&Telecom Project Manager Skills Assessment
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Developing effective project management skills can be a challenge in the best of times. The range of topics and disciplines on the project management field is broad, and it can be difficult to know where to best focus our energies and efforts. In the fields of information technology and telecommunications (IT&T), the project management challenge grows ever greater. Effective project management means that our skills sets need to integrate proficiencies from the disciplines of project management, general management and the underlying technical disciplines our projects are rooted in. In the IT&T space, this means a broad range of skills, functions and capabilities. This assessment helps you gauge where your skills are currently in order to help guide your future career development efforts.
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Project HEADWAY: How to Build an RFP
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By now, you have determined that you will be required to procure goods or services from outside the organization to complete your project. The next step in the process is to build the set of procurement documents that are going to allow potential vendors to bid on the work.
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Project Quality Plan
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Monitoring quality on your project means tracking the process as well as the product. This template will help you gather all of the quality issues in one place so you can keep on top of your project quality from justification through close-out.
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Resource Budgeting Spreadsheet
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Use this worksheet in conjunction with the "Get Your Project Team Funded" article, which shows a powerful way to quickly estimate the cost of your project team.
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Project HEADWAY: Planning for Quality
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What is quality? It is hard to say if there is a more misunderstood concept on projects than quality. It may even fall into the category of "You either get it or you don't" Unfortunately there is not a lot of 'in between'.
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Evaluating Your Project's Potential for Outsourcing
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Evaluation Assessment Evaluation Form Questionnaire Report / Evaluation Form Questionnaire Report / Questionnaire Report / Report
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This document outlines how to evaluate your project’s potential for outsourcing, and describes the factors that help determine outsourcing’s pros and cons as a project development option, analyses on its cost-benefit and risks, and other requirements under it. These items are in addition to other factors that you may wish to include.
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Functional Requirements Assessment
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Evaluation Assessment
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Use this template with the Evaluating and Selecting PPM Software story, which has full instructions.
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Vendor & Package Evaluation Checklist
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As important as the right features are to the success of the product, equally important is the ability of the provider to support that product now and in the future. This template should assist in that effort.
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Employee Reward Program and Incentive Checklists
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Each employee or team member is unique, with specific skills, talents, weaknesses and work style. Shouldn't your employee incentive and reward program reflect that individuality? This set of checklists and worksheets wil help you develop a program to keep employees happy and motivated, with appropriate incentivies and rewards--developed with input from each of your charges.
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Project HEADWAY: Effective Communications Planning
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Project management is all about communications. In fact, some have argued that 90% of a project manager's time is spent communicating with others. Even if you think this number is exaggerated, most will agree that a project manager is generally in constant contact, either verbally or in written form, with project sponsors, team members or other stakeholders.
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CIO Assessment Template
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Use this extensive assessment template to see how you're keeping up as a world-class CIO. This Excel spreadsheet evaluates CIO performance and attitude on 37 different levels for a complete overview.
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