Tag: Project Management
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10 Important Aspects of Project Efficiency
This blog covers the 10 important aspects of delivering successful projects in the professional services industry.
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Stay on Budget With Project Accounting
If you’ve worked in project management for any period of time, you understand how crucial it is for professional services teams to stay on budget. This isn’t just about execution, it also involves rigorous planning. Setting realistic project budgets requires you to level-set with clients, thoroughly going over expectations and needs to ensure that what…
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Common Spreadsheet Problems (and How They Affect Business)
An over-reliance on spreadsheets can cause unnecessary complications within your business. Here are some common avoidable problems.
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Modern Project Management: An Introduction
Modern project management serves projects that result in unique deliverables, such as a website build or software implementation. Learn how it’s different!
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What is a Project Proposal and Why is it Important?
This blog answers the following questions: What is a project proposal and why is a project proposal important in services success?
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Keep Your Project Strong During Execution: Harnessing the Power of Your Project Team
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the second part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. Read the first part on building a great project foundation here. The Lazy Project Manager’s Theory of Projects is: “All projects are thick at one end,…
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The Art of Building a Great Project Foundation: 2 Critical Areas Every Project Needs At Its Start
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the first part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. There is a well-known project maxim that says, “Projects don’t fail at the end. They fail at the beginning.” Failure at the beginning is just harder…
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Do You Have What it Takes to Scale Your Professional Services Business?
Growth is the hallmark measure of success for all organizations, but scaling your professional services business is difficult. The following are critical elements for every professional services firm that is looking to successfully scale.
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Kantata Professional Services Cloud – What is it and Why Do You Need It?
The increasingly complex, fast-paced world of professional services needs a new technology solution. Find out about the Mavenlink Kantata Professional Services Cloud and what it can do for you.
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The Unified Data Model and Its Superpowers in Resource Management
Mavenlink and Enterprise Times have partnered to break down the tenets of a Unified Data Model and its implementation into a company with a new whitepaper, “The Importance of a Unified Data Model in Resource Management.”
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Are Your Clients Unhappy? Look for These Signs
To keep your clients happy and on board, keep an eye out for these red flags—they’re good indicators that your clients are not satisfied and may turn over.
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Make Every Minute Count: Why Time Tracking Still Matters
When it comes to time management, companies in the services industry need to strike a balance between oversight and insight. Understanding the value of time tracking and how to manage it in a positive way will help your services company stay ahead and build even greater success.
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How Data Science Training Gives Project Managers an Edge
Successful project management requires data insights—now more than ever before. While today’s project management solutions deliver automated insights during planning and review, being the project manager of tomorrow calls for strong data science skills.
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Online Collaboration in 2021: Evolution or Revolution?
By looking at how online collaboration will change in 2021, you can make informed decisions on how you collaborate today and in the coming years.
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The Essential Elements of a Project Timeline
Learn about the major elements of a project timeline for effective project planning and on-time process execution.
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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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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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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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How to Improve Customer Experience Through the Five C’s – Part 2
Learn how collaboration, efficiency, and company-wide adoption can help your business improve customer experiences for greater project success.
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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.