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New Meets Traditional: How Project Teams Benefit From More Options 

PM Alliance

Whether it’s how your group comes together to collaborate on project budget development or the systems you use to maintain stakeholder engagement, a willingness to blend new and old methods gives you wider access to options that can lead to the perfect strategy for your unique situation.

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Want to Conduct Organizational Assessments? Here's How to Get Started

Consulting Matters

The insight you glean through interviews and focus groups provide you an independent and outside point of view - one of the key reasons why executives hire consultants in the first place. You need to make sure that you do match the right methodology with the right business needs. Choosing the Right Methodology & Sample Size (2:53).

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Overcome Project Sponsor Turnover Challenges

PM Alliance

They can also be important partners in securing the cooperation of other internal groups, whether they’re contributors to the project effort or they are among the work groups affected by the initiative’s process and workflow changes. Deal with shifting priorities.

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4 Ways to Get More Value from Your Project Task Duration Data

PM Alliance

With a project management methodology that emphasizes the development of well-informed task duration information, you already have data within your organization that could help trim costs, streamline resource management, and shift your continuous improvement efforts into overdrive. 2: Compare task duration estimates against actual reporting.

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Sprint-Based Work on Multiple Projects: How an Agile Resource Management Solution Can Assist

Epicflow

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. The most popular and widely used Agile methodology is Scrum. The graph shows the amount of work left for each resource group. Read further to learn the details.

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Need Clients Now? 5 Strategies to Quickly Get More Consulting Clients

Consulting Matters

Ultimately - even if you're trying to meet urgent needs - you also still need confidence in your value proposition - because all of your immediate efforts will be focused on finding the people who you can help and who genuinely need you. Here's a sample script you can use when meeting someone at a networking event : Make Personal Contact.

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Supplement Your Consulting Pipeline by Subcontracting

Successful Independent Consulting

You’ll likely be introduced to clients you may otherwise never meet. Some companies provide access to group health insurance so it may be worth subcontracting just to get access to a better/cheaper health plan. Of course, they charge for this. It’s an easy way to see if you even like consulting. See prior point.)