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Wedding DIY: Using a Wedding Project Management Template

wedding project management template

Project management isn’t just for the office—learn how a wedding project management template can help you plan your wedding like a Boss!

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for. Your significant other gets down on one knee with a beautiful ring in their hand and asks the big question: Will you marry me? You say, Yes!, with your hands in the air. When you announce the news to your friends and family, they are delighted and can’t wait for the big day. They start asking about the date, the venue, did you know your cousin is allergic to shellfish, are they able to bring a guest, and of course it would be an honor for them to sing at your wedding.

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What Does a Legal Project Manager Do?

What does a legal project manager do?

The growing field of Legal Project Management (LPM) can be a somewhat contentious subject. Not everyone understands what LPM is or why it’s necessary. What does a legal project manager do, or, more importantly, how can they improve your law firm?

The nickel description? An LPM is an efficiency expert who streamlines a whole operation from top to bottom. They cut out wasteful practices, wasteful expenses… waste in general. And they provide a number of valuable insights into how legal teams are performing; strengths and weaknesses, their best and worst practices, and more.

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How We Turned Gryffin into a Powerful Blogger Outreach Platform

Blogger Outreach Platform

Blogger outreach has dozens of moving pieces. From selecting the right targets, tracking conversations, developing assets for publication, following up with potential site relationships, to promoting published articles… it’s a lot for marketers to track! Especially when most blogger outreach platforms only cover a piece or two of the much, much larger puzzle.

Designed by marketers, Gryffin is all about eliminating the pain points of managing work just like blogger outreach: work that is complex, multi-faceted, and multi-channel. Gryffin also has a wide variety of features meant to handle all the elements of blogger outreach in one place: from tracking emails to content creation, relationship management, and so on.

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Remote Project Management: Tools & Tips to Improve Engagement

Remote project management tools can make or break team engagement

If you’ve spent any time working remotely, you’re almost certainly familiar with remote project management tools. These tools can help you communicate with the rest of your team, organize your files… but what about tools that actively improve your (and your team’s) engagement?

Working from home involves exposure to a great many distractions. Your family is likely to be a source of distraction (not that they’re unwelcome… usually.) There are also the typical day-to-day experiences of being at home: pets that need attention, people at the door, phone calls to the house, etc. And the causes aren’t always external: it’s easy to come up with your own ways to procrastinate on occasion. Hey, you’re only human, right?

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How to Build Project Status Report Templates with Gryffin

Project Status Report Template

Nothing’s hard than tracking the status of your projects across teams, offices, clients, campaigns, and deadlines. How do you keep an eye on all that information, let alone keep it organized, cohesive, and—most importantly—on track?

Gryffin’s robust Reports feature makes it easy to build project status report templates that can be used to track your data continuously. These templates can be used to create custom reports that will keep you on the pulse of your project deadlines, team activities, and even company expenses.

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How to Handle Project Management Accounting (When You’re Not a CPA)

Project Management Accounting

Project managers are often required to wear many hats: project accountant is one of them. Keeping track of project expenses is one thing, but true project management accounting— analyzing transactional flows, predicting and managing risk—can be a daunting prospect.

Let’s take a look at how you can handle project management accounting, even if you’re not a CPA.

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Automation to AI: Project Management Tools of the Future

AI Project Management Tools

When we think of project management tools today, we think of advanced platforms like Gryffin that use automation to make our jobs easier and more efficient. But while the phrase “project management” might be relatively new, the concept goes back to antiquity.

Imagine traveling back in time a few thousand years to ancient Mesopotamia. The hot technology shaking up the business world in those days? The abacus. And that was sort of an early project management tool, after a fashion—a “modern” way to keep count beyond our fingers and toes, revolutionizing how we tracked bags of grain and heads of cattle.

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What Is Legal Project Management? | Does My Practice Need LPM?

What Is Legal Project Management

For lawyers and legal professionals, anything that polarizes uncertainty is a good thing. So here’s a binary statement for you: legal project management is a good thing.

Efficiency is always preferred over chaos. Always. It doesn’t matter what avenue of professional life you’re walking down or what field you’re in. Retail, construction, medicine, finance, efficiency is something every working person should strive toward. And that statement is as true in the legal realm as it is anywhere else. Perhaps even more so, given how high the stakes can be.

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100+ Project Management & Productivity Statistics You Should Know

productivity statistics

Investing in project management software is a big decision, even if you’re using a platform as cost-effective as Gryffin. As a business owner or executive, it’s important you always complete your due diligence, researching various platforms to ensure their quality.

It’s to that end that we decided to compile a list of more than 100 valuable project management and productivity statistics you should know, organized into various categories for your convenience.

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