Category: Project Management
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How to Create a Project Budget That Works
Every successful services business has a deep understanding of project budgets. The following steps will help project managers and financial teams make tweaks to their processes to create project budgets that work.
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5 Steps to Measure Your Project Outcomes
Find out how to understand the true long-term impact of your projects in this excerpt from our new ebook on outcomes engineering strategies.
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Project Integration Management for Services Teams: Importance, Steps, and Best Practices
Learn how project integration management can improve communication and collaboration between project managers and the resources they manage.
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5 Elements Every Project Proposal Should Include
Read this blog to learn the five key that every project proposal should include when delivering services successfully.
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8 Tips for Estimating Resources in Project Management
Learn 8 tips for calculating resources specifically for project managers looking to improve profits and services delivery.
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What Are the 4 Phases of the Project Management Lifecycle?
The four stages of the project management lifecycle are initiation, planning, execution, and termination. Read more on each stage.
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3 Types of Project Management Goals to Improve Success
Learn the 3 types of project management goals every PM should implement in their strategy and projects to increase success in their company.
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Why is Hybrid Project Management Right for Your Business?
Read this blog to learn the hybrid approach to project management — the best of both Agile and traditional methodologies & how to utilize it.
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What Should a Project Proposal Include?
Learn how to write the ultimate project proposal and ensure customer satisfaction and successful delivery at your business
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Waterfall vs. Agile Project Management: Pros & Cons
Waterfall project management is most successful in predictable environments, while agile is better for flexible environments. Here are their pros & cons.
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Why is the Project Lifecycle Important?
Learn why the project lifecycle is important to establish the steps to complete a project that maintain progression, momentum, and priority.
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7 Common Consulting Firm Project Management Challenges
Learn the 7 most common project management challenges experienced by many consulting firms & how to overcome them
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What Are the 4 Most Common Challenges for a Scaling IT Services Organization?
Learn how to overcome challenges including building departments, changing management structure and more IT services scaling complications at your business.
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4 Easy Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover at Your Agency
Keep employee turnover rates low at your agency for greater success through these four tips that can improve employee satisfaction and loyalty.
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8 Tips for Writing a Project Proposal
Check out 8 tips for writing a project proposal to help you close more deals, improve profitability, & manage your projects more effectively.
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Does Your Agency Have a Process Bottleneck? Here’s How to Find Out
What’s slowing down your company’s projects? It may be a process bottleneck. Learn how to find it and fix it in this helpful guide.
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Retention Strategies for Millennials (& How to Keep Them Happy)
Read this blog to learn how to attract, hire, engage, and retain the Millennial workforce at your business.
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10 Steps to Successful Process Governance
Read this blog to learn 10 steps to help you improve processes management and governance at your organization.
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Why the Professional Services Project Life Cycle Needs More Focus on Collaboration
Project life cycles live and die on good collaboration. Here’s how you can improve your project management strategies through team work.
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What is Project Management Software Used For?
Project management software is used to design a blueprint for your project, track progress, and execute. Here are the top 9 ways to use PM software.
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11 Shocking Project Management Statistics That Cost Business Owners Millions Each Year
Project managers deal with a variety of moving parts and challenges during their work with a client. This is especially obvious when you take a look at some of the shocking statistics surrounding project management. This blog introduces 21 statistics that sum up the most common challenges associated with project management. At Kantata, we are…
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7 Project Management Tips for Consultants
Learn 7 tips for consultants to improve their project management strategy & increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
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The Six Elements of Successful Project Scope Management
Learn six steps to successful project scope management including specific inputs, tools, and techniques to create an effective strategy.
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8 Steps for Practical Program Management Metrics
Read this blog to learn 8 steps for improve program management metrics, performance, profitability, and productivity in your team.
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The First Three Sections Required for a Great SOW (Statement of Work)
In this article, you’ll discover what belongs in each section of your SOW (statement of work). Within each section, short example text is provided to demonstrate what a successful SOW looks like. Section #1: Introduction Example Introduction: Acme Agency, LLP, is pleased to provide this Statement of Work (“SOW”) confirming that it will continue to…
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6 Qualities to Look for in Project Management Software
Find out how to determine which project management software is right for your business with the simple guide to 6 important PMS qualities.
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7 Best Practices for Successful Project Management Software Adoption
Read this blog for 7 best practices required to get the ultimate benefits from your project management software.
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How to Increase the Accuracy of Your Project Estimates
Are your project estimates accuracy? Learn how to eliminate critical errors and quickly improve your project profitability with these helpful steps.
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What is the Most Fundamental KPI for Services Businesses?
Find out what Key Performance Indicator (KPI) every services business must absolutely track in order to achieve success.
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6 Tips for Making Better Data Management Decisions
These 6 steps will help you better prepare for, choose, and implement a data management solution for your services company to maximize success.
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Is Your PMO a Healthy PMO?
Learn how to test your project management office to see its strengths and weaknesses, highlighted by PM thought leader Peter Taylor.
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5 Ways Business Intelligence Can Boost Your Resource Management Skills
Looking to learn more about how Business Intelligence can support your resource management needs? Read the five ways it can help you succeed.
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Three Steps for Effectively Managing Scope Creep
Scope creep is one of the easiest ways for project margins to be eroded. Learn the three steps to keep it in check and stay profitable.
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How to Improve Your Chances of Project Proposal Approval
Learn about the six different types of project proposals and the steps that you can take to increase your chances of client approval.
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What are the Most Critical Project Management Skills?
Read this blog to learn the most essential, in-demand, and expected skills to have as a project manager today.
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Key Takeaways from 30 Popular Project Management Articles
This blog covers key best practices from 30 of the most popular articles on project management available today.
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The 6-Step Guide to Customer-Centric Project Management
Follow these six steps to learn how to approach project management with the customer needs at the forefront.
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10 Performance Metrics Examples Project Managers Can’t Afford to Miss
Project managers MUST learn how to leverage key performance indicators (KPIs). Check out these 10 popular performance metrics that you can’t afford to miss.
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The Four Biggest Threats to Profit in Services
Growth isn’t automatically coupled with profits — this blog explains the 4 most common issues associated with profitable project management.
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How to Measure Planned and Actual Utilization Percentages
Do you know the difference between planned and actual utilization? This blog teaches you how to measure both metrics to help drive business.
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How to Measure Project Margin at Completion
Learn how to improve one of the most important metrics in professional services — Project Margin at Completion.
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What is the Definition of A Great SOW?
Check out this blog to learn the true definition of A Statement of Work and how to write an SOW in minutes.
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Understanding the Four Key Metrics Associated with Project Failure
Read this blog to learn the four key metrics associated with poor project execution or worse — project failure.
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Project Managers’ Top 10 Tips for Keeping Projects on Time and on Budget
The following tips can ensure your project continues its desired trajectory, and finishes on time and on budget (every project managers goal!).
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A Day in the Life of a Project Manager
A day in the life of a project manager might not be what you expect. Here’s the surprising and inspiring truth about how PMs spend their days.
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Using Analytics for Project Management
Using analytics can help project managers handle complex projects and keep them on-schedule and on-budget.