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Flexible With People and Rigid With Timelines

The Recovering Engineer

I have also attended workshops and read books on project management. Many of them focused on the checklists, charts, graphs, and planning tools necessary to plan and track project progress and milestone completion. I have used task lists and planning tools that include PERT and Gantt charts. He kept track of the timeline.

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Communicating Your Project Plan With Stakeholders

Strategy Driven

As a project manager, one of the most important things you need to do is communicate effectively. This is something you will learn about extensively during your project management courses. You are going to be working with different people all of the time, and you need to know how to communicate to each one successfully.

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Great Quotes: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

QAspire

I hope these quotes/snippets will help you get the gist of this book and prompt you to read it: Managing the Work. The term ’project management’ makes most creative people cringe. Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Managing Your Energy. On Progress.

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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. For example, if category expansion is critical to value creation in a particular strategy, plans should focus disproportionally on how to achieve this. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure.