Training and the Employee Lifecycle: Pre-Employment Development

The labor pool presents a challenge to many organizations when selecting employees with the foundational knowledge, skills, and abilities for success on the job. Pre-employment development is the process of preparing future employees with information a…

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Putting Together the Project Puzzle

In the business world, it is often said that resources are your most valuable asset. If that’s the case, are you doing everything you can to ensure that your most valuable assets are being leveraged to their fullest potential? It’s not as easy as it sounds—especially when you have multiple projects with overlapping timelines that require many of the same roles.

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PMP Question of the Week: Change Order Request Next Steps

You are the project manager on a very large, complex system software deployment project. The schedule is set for three years and the budget is $8 million. The project is approximately 50% complete but is slightly behind schedule and over budget (SPI = 0.94 and CPI = 0.96). One of the key project stakeholders (accounting department functional manager) contacts you to discuss what the accounting departmental manager believes to be required additional scope. You ask this key stakeholder to put his request in the form of a Change Order Request (COR). When you receive the COR, you expect to work the COR through the Control Scope process. After the impact of the COR has been determined, what is the best thing to do next?

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