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Project Success Criteria

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There cannot be a project without its success criteria. However, when we observe discussions on various online forums or conferences, many project professionals focus on schedule, cost, and quality. Numerous publications on project management continue to pivot around the triangle of schedule, cost, and quality. Is this so? Has the nature of projects not changed over the past fifty-odd years since project management became a discipline? Consider these projects. Development of a mobile app for the New Year. Drug development for a life-threatening disease. Highway infrastructure project in Amazon. Implementing GDPR on a technology project. Building a school for a charitable trust. On a close review of the above projects, does one still feel that the success criterion is either schedule, cost, or quality? The first project would be successful only if delivered before Dec 31st – hence schedule would be the key success criterion. However, the same may not be true about drug development. Of c...

Why choose TouchBase as Project Task Management Software?

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  Task management   addresses the end-to-end life cycle of projects from initiation, to planning, execution, and finally to closure, cutting across the different dimensions of project management — scope, resources, costs, quality, risks, communication, procurement, and integration. A   Task management Software   operates at the core of schedule management. It enables teams achieve the project goals by collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Tasks are also differentiated by complexity from low to high. How to manage tasks effectively? TouchBase- a complete Proj e ct Task Management Software   for business of all sizes provides a comprehensive solution for task management. It can be easily configured to the needs of your industry and your organizational standards, be it - Professional services Life sciences and pharmaceuticals Engineering and manufacturing EPC (Engineering Procurement & Construction) FMCG Consumer durables and… Others TouchBase is currently used...

Do you want to avoid the Project Portfolio Management Trap?

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  When it comes to   Project Portfolio Management   a Project manager is responsible for ensuring that a project is going through managed set of activities and all the processes are in sync with each other. A Project manager ensures that all these activities meet the project goals and are moving towards Project Portfolio Management success. In Project Management, there are various traps   to encounter and if the Project Manager is not alert and adaptive all the Project management activities may come down the road. Let us educate ourselves on various different types of Project Portfolio Management traps and how we can get out of them. Project portfolio management trap Read the full blog at  Do you want to avoid the Project Portfolio Management Trap ?

Professional Services Automation (PSA) Software for MSPs and IT Professional

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  TouchBase is a   Professional Services Automation   Tool which helps teams to plan, organize and put together a work force for a successful Project Management. TouchBase —  Professional Services Automation (PSA)  software empowers your enterprise’s professional services business to experience real-time reports and helps increase project profitability by maximizing resource utilization. Experience all of this on a single Cloud based platform know as  TouchBase . Professional Services Automation Software Read more on  Professional Services Automation (PSA) Software for MSPs and IT Professional .

Business Continuity with a Cloud-Based Project Management Software

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Business Continuity can be termed an enterprise’s capability of maintaining its Business-As-Usual processes in case of any disruptions due to natural or unforeseeable catastrophes. The strategy covers human resources, business processes, assets and so on. Cloud Based Project Management Software A Business Continuity plan is the most important for every enterprise or an organization whenever any unusual problem occurs. It enables enterprises to carry a degree of flexibility in processes no matter what happens, and it affords a degree of adaptability to unusual changes in the management. Carrying out business continuity is important for all businesses as it helps the organization to keep growing its revenue streams and stay afloat even in the face of disaster Read more at https://www.productdossier.com/blog/details/0000000179

Opportunity to Cash Process : Bids & Proposal to Profitably execution of project

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Visualize a professional services business or any company that undertakes projects and programs for external customers. Generally called as Opportunity-to-Cash (O2C) or Quote-to-Cash (Q2C), we could split O2C as – Opportunity to Cash Process : Bids & Proposal to Profitably execution of project The life cycle of O2C projects and programs could be distinctly bucketed as – Bids & Proposal Management Project Planning Project Execution Organizations continue to struggle to deliver O2C projects & programs — profitably! Read the full blog on  Opportunity to Cash Process : Bids & Proposal to Profitably execution of project

Importance of cost control in project management

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Think about this — Why should an organization invest in a project if profitability would be compromised due to poor  Project Cost Control ? Importance of Cost Control in Project Management Irrespective of the nature of the project and its objectives, cost control in project management is — and would continue to be an important measure of project success. Unfortunately, many project managers and team members are still not comfortable managing this dimension of project management — they are contented to focus on the technical aspects of their projects. Strangely, project  t eams do not realize that it does not make business sense to deliver projects when cost control is not assigned top priority. Read the full blog on  Importance of Cost Control in Project Management .