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Clearly communicate with
people on the project team and your customers about the project
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Accurately define the problems your project will help
solve
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Specify the requirements
of your project in terms of how your customers will use the project deliverables
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Clearly define the end
point of your project to rein in costs
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Get everyone on the project team to define their roles and responsibilities
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Determine exactly what you need to
get started with your project and what represents completion (and success)
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Create measurements to
insure your project meets your criteria
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Define reviews and approvals at each stage of your
project
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Collect relevant
information in periodic reports to coordinate project execution
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Assess and prevent risks
that could derail your Project
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Define the priorities of
the project in terms of cost, schedule, and quality
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Identify your constraints
and conflicts
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Specify the final and
interim deadlines
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Determine the staff and
resources needed to complete the project
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Align your budget with
your overall goals and objectives
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Define team members' roles and responsibilities
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Create dependency schedules and use Microsoft Project
software (if desired) to record your information
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Use a three point
estimating technique to calculate budgets for work and resources
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Track your progress
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Record your lessons learned in a way that can
be used to improve the way you manage your next project
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Identify how you’re going
to use what you’ve learned doing this project to continue to build your career
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Earn PDUs or
CEUs - If you're a PMP, you will earn 20 PDUs upon completion of
this course towards your re-certification. If you need to
attain CEUs, you'll earn 2 CEUs upon completion.
