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Flexible With People and Rigid With Timelines

The Recovering Engineer

They include construction, computer system, computer software, marketing, web development, book writing, process improvement, and plant expansion projects. Many of them focused on the checklists, charts, graphs, and planning tools necessary to plan and track project progress and milestone completion. I have worked in Microsoft Project.

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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Track value delivered, when you tracked through the Gantt Chart? In the current competitive market we should not only focus on the scope, time and budgets, quality but also needs to provide some value adds to the customer. But did you keep that in perspective constantly while executing? This was a nice post to share on weekend!Thanks

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. Emphasizing compliance with a plan can, under stable conditions, accelerate fruition of a strategy. marketing team offered the same promotion to U.S. Insight center. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Planning myopia.