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Project Management Articles
Preparing the Project Status Report
Don't Leave Status Reporting to Chance - "Set Standards to Report By"
Project managers walk a fine line when it comes to requesting (and actually getting) status reports from team members. On one hand, status reporting procedures should not be too cumbersome or intrusive. Project staff may come to resent the attention, and the perceived lack of trust and confidence. On the other hand, no project manager can afford to be taken by surprise by issues and problems that go unreported (or under-reported). And the quality and quantity of that feedback cannot be left to chance. That's why you must quickly establish standardized procedures for project status reporting, covering all relevant issues, from frequency to content.
You don't need (or even want) lengthy, verbose documents to report on project status. You need the right information presented in a clean, concise and consistent format. The Project Status Snapshot is designed to do just that! With one cost effective download, you get the secrets, solutions, and tools you need to produce and present timely status reports for all your projects, designed to inform and impress.
The Project Status Snapshot is a complete resource for project status reporting, helping you to provide a "big picture" perspective to all project stakeholders, featuring the Status Snapshot Form, the Snapshot Slide Show and the Snapshot Instruction Manual. Use these tools to report on (8) key indicators of project health, evaluate results, pinpoint issues and identify performance trends.
The Fast Track Business Case
Lengthy documents won't
get your projects approved.... you need clean, polished and professional
presentation tools to provide the information decision makers need and
want to see, and to make the best case for your projects.
The Fast Track Business Case is designed for that purpose,
providing a unique system for proposing projects - designed for the
electronic preparation, submission and approval of project business
case proposals. You get the tools you need and secrets you can
use to prepare winning business case proposals for any type of
project.
The Project Planning Roadmap
Version 2
In order to execute any project, you first
have to define your project "vision" - what are you working towards, why
does it matter, how will results be achieved, and what constraints will
you face along the way? It takes a process to define a
project, allowing work to begin and making success possible. The Project
Planning Roadmap tackles that process, providing
you with the tools you need to plan definition tasks and activities,
considering all the requirements, issues and deliverables needed to
produce successful results.
The Project Management Bundle: Best Value for Project Managers! You get (6) products, with more that (250+) pages of steps and instructions, and (20+) forms and templates. This bundle is available for download or on CD for $249 - a savings of 20% compared to individual product titles.