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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

Our project management consultants often need to help clients navigate resource challenges, whether during the initial planning phase or after the project has moved into the execution stage. Funding may be the first thing that comes to mind, but many teams also struggle to manage scarcities related to personnel, knowledge, and time.

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Mental Energy Units

CaseInterview.com

When you’re an individual contributor, you focus mainly on time management. As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. There are 24 hours in a day.

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A Refresher on A/B Testing

Harvard Business

His latest book is Number Sense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage. In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. Sometimes, you know that certain variables, usually those that are not easily manipulated, have a strong effect on the success metric. What Is A/B Testing?

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Prioritize Your Opportunities with This Checklist

Harvard Business

Author a book? Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. For them, this system becomes an Opportunity Filter to evaluate the most optimal uses of your available time and resources. Ultimately, as I have become skilled in using this metric, it has become a calculation I am able to do in my head.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.