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The Importance of Professional Project Managers

Many integration companies that are beginning to mature their business management practices go through a process of determining who to select as their project managers, and how to nurture their competence and capabilities.

As someone who has taught more than 15,000 students in project management worldwide, I have seen many of these selection cycles across many different business markets. I’ve seen it at IT and AV integration companies, construction companies (especially smaller firms), as well as at financial services organizations and many others attempting to improve how they manage projects by using their own internal resources to manage and staff those projects.

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The Myth of the Perfect Project Estimate

Is it better for a project estimate to be precise or accurate?

It’s my experience, over hundreds of AV integration projects and hundreds more in numerous industries, that most people believe a precise estimate is more accurate — and that most of the time, “precise” and “accurate” are considered synonymous.

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