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Karoline Holicky

Karoline Holicky brings not only her southern charm and Cajun cooking (Louisiana born and Texas raised), but as the Marketing Director at Meisterplan, she also brings more than 15 years of professional experience in many industries including financial services, engineering, oil & gas and the software industry. Karoline watches for best practices and trends in project portfolio management because her main goal is to ensure companies are ready for anything and thrive in times of change.

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What Can You Learn from This Year’s Failures to Make Better Plans for Next Year?

Learning from our own mistakes can be one of the most powerful ways to grow as a business. Let's take some time to reflect together to make sure your next year's plans can lead to more success.

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Why Projects Fail and How You Can Reduce Project Failure

Failed projects cost companies a huge amount of money and frustration. One of the reasons for this is projects that lack strategic orientation. Learn why projects fail and how to solve this problem by establishing a strategic project portfolio.

7 min read
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Is It Possible To Have Too Much Data?

Many businesses believe a chaotic and unsuccessful project portfolio is caused by a lack of project data. This leads them to put great effort into documenting and obtaining as much project data as possible. But is the problem really that they don't have enough data?

8 min read
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The Gantt Chart – The MVP of Project Portfolio Management

Gantt charts are a powerful tool for portfolio and task management used by professionals across a wide variety of industries. Learn more about them, and why project portfolio managers are loving how Meisterplan utilizes Gantt charts here!

7 min read
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Strict Adherence to Agile Is Actually Not Very Agile

Is "Agile" everything it's cracked up to be? We believe the best use of Agile involves, well, some not-Agile aspects. Read on to learn more!

8 min read
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Agile or Top Down Project Management? The Answer: Hybrid Project Management

What is behind the hype about agile work? And what really works? In this blog post, we answer these and other questions and explain the challenges that management faces and how you can solve them.

8 min read
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Project Prioritization: Stop Working on the Wrong Projects!

In this blogpost, we break down three of the most common prioritization methods so you can determine which one is right for your organization.

6 min read
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A+ for Meisterplan’s Project Timeline Modifications and Resourcing

Learn more about the recent Meisterplan review by Info-Tech analyst, Barry Cousins, including his first impression, how Meisterplan is different from the competition, and his recommendation on who should try Meisterplan.

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Project Portfolio Management Works for More Than Just IT

There is no reason portfolio management principles should only be applied to the IT sector. In this blog post, we discuss why project portfolio management makes sense for multiple areas of business, and not just IT.

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