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Project HEADWAY: Breaking the Triangle: What to Cut When Cuts Loom Over Your Project
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It is never something that we like to face – but it is a reality that we often have to accommodate, despite our preferences to the contrary. When we are told to do more with less, and to scale down what it will take to do our project, what are our options? How do we approach it? How do we make sure that, when all is said and done, we have the bandwidth and resources to still successfully deliver what we are committed to?
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Delegation Document
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It's important to avoid confusion around decision-making authority. This template helps you have a productive discussion with your project sponsor and agree on the types of decisions you can make and the ones that need to be escalated.
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Team Operating Agreement
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This Team Operating Agreement will document the team’s agreement around: values, decision-making, communication, problem-solving and commitments.
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Project HEADWAY: What's Your Issue? Strategies For Effective Issue Management
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Issue management is a critical aspect of effective project management, but one that often gets overlooked or given less attention than is needed. While risk management is often perceived as being critical, it is in the management of issues that risks are actually identified and managed. Which means that ignore issue management is, well, risky…
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Project Plan/Project Definition
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Plan
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Behind every successful project is a rock-solid, detailed project plan. This template defines every aspect of your project. The final product can be used to makes what you are doing clear to all project stakeholders.
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Program Management Office Charter
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Proposal Report / Report
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This 6 page PMO Charter template is perfect for a single-program PMO. Using the step by step instructions provided, it should take very little time to complete, offer a very clear vision for the PMO and define what will make it successful.
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Project Investment Summary
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The Project Investment Summary template helps you calculate the value of your project to the organization in very tangible, financial terms. (works best for projects that will produce actual cash and profits)
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Vendor Qualifications Evaluation
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Evaluation Form Evaluation Assessment / Evaluation Assessment
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This Vendor Qualifications Evaluation details a complete description of the expected level of service and performance to be provided by prospective vendors.
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Requirements Management Plan
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The Requirements Management Plan is primarily used for communications, giving all stakeholders a view on how this process is managed for your project. It completely answers the very common question, "How are you identifying and managing your project requirements?"
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Business Case
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Report
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Mission-critical projects need to be well-justified, with clear goals that can be referenced throughout the life of the project. This business case template offers an excellent approach to goal-setting and a way to communicate those goals effectively.
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PMO Sample Risk Questionnaire
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Good PMO policy requires that risks get evaluated before projects go forward. Use this sample questionnaire to give you ideas on how to structure your own risk assessment surveys.
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Project Management Story Telling Checklist
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Good story telling can make you a much more effective Project Manager. This document offers you a way to look at the stories you choose to tell and offer ways to make them work well as a motivational tool.
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Project HEADWAY: Getting Closure: Knowing Your Project Is Really Done
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What we understand as a project is clear and well defined: a clear objective, a set of related activities and a defined start and end date. Except when the project doesn't it. Getting project closure is important, but also can be elusive. Customers and sponsors resist closing out projects for a variety of reasons: because they are unsatisfied with the results, because they have further plans, or because there is more work to be done. At the same time, project managers and teams struggle with uncertainty, ambiguity and stress.
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