Traxidy

JUNE 12, 2023

3 Leading Indicators That Your Project is in Trouble By: Steve McBroom, CEO, Traxidy (Click to follow on LinkedIn) Monitoring key project metrics and trends can provide you with a clear view of the project road ahead and whether your project is under control, and continuing on the expected road, or is heading off a cliff.

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Teamweek

APRIL 22, 2021

But how do you create a project mix to achieve these objectives? How do you prioritize resources between these projects? Strategic Project Management can help you answer these questions. In this article, you’ll learn: What is Strategic Project Management? What is Strategic Project Management? Ready to get started?

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Resource Guru

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That’s why it can sometimes be hard to catch the signs of burnout early. If we don’t know how to spot signs early and are able to remove (or at least manage) contributing factors, companies are looking at a hefty price tag. So, as a project manager, is it all just doom and gloom when you hear the B word? Bad sleep habits.

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nTask

JULY 13, 2021

But, if done right, you and your team can complete many great projects together. From to-do lists to vision-oriented goals, projects can be divided to suit everyone in the team. Being able to manage the tasks is essential as the end success depends on how effectively each part of the project was completed.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 13, 2019

Nine years ago I changed my title from Project Manager into Scrum Master. Nowadays I frequently receive the question: “Hi Barry, I’m currently a Project Manager (or any other role) and I would like to become a Scrum Master as well, where do I start? My dream of becoming a Project Manager. In the meantime, a lot has happened!

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Prince2

JANUARY 26, 2018

Not all projects are created equal. If you can spot any of these five red flags early enough, you’ll be better prepared to stamp them out, or avoid managing a doomed project altogether. It’s easy for project managers to fixate on the schedules, budget and resources. Single points of failure.

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Wrike

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, learning from them is essential, particularly in the project management space. Even if your company believes the latest project was a job well done, take the time to reflect and use the experience as a way to get even better. They also involve taking note of valuable insights into the project planning process.

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Planio

AUGUST 14, 2023

Adopting a marketing project management process can help you stay organized, improve team collaboration, and turbocharge your delivery. Jump to a section: What is marketing project management? What does a marketing project manager do? Assign tasks to your team and build your project plan 5. Create project deliverables 6.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, with the ensuing difficulty of refocusing everyone on creating hypotheses, running experiments, and embracing failure while abandoning the command and control management style at the same time, legacy organizations have tended to give autonomy, accountability, and transparency a try at the team level. Agile Project Management.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

With agile recruiting, you’ll spot this failure after a week instead of basing your entire hiring process on the wrong first step in the hiring process. These short meetings are crucial if you want to spot challenges quickly and correct them in time because, by day 42, it may be too late. Set and measure your KPIs.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 8, 2024

Virtual teams only work together for a particular task or project and then go their separate ways. After a few costly failures to hire quality remote workers , we’ve built Toggl Hire — an all-in-one screening, assessing, and hiring platform! They also work together on projects but report to the same manager.

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Redbooth

MARCH 28, 2018

Project failure is painful. There’s nothing worse than that sinking feeling when a project deadline comes and goes, and you haven’t been able to deliver on your promises. You can learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones with a project pre-mortem and post-mortem.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 13, 2023

And that may be true, but here at Resource Guru, we say that a watched project never fails. Monitoring and controlling a project is an essential part of any successful project process. In this article, we’ll cover: What is monitoring and controlling in project management?

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Resource Guru

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And if you ask any seasoned project manager, the worst kind of creep comes in the form of scope creep. Because the next morning, you might be dealing with an entirely different kind of beast: a project that’s out of control. Sent back to the darkest depths of project management hell. There’s no project scope.

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Teamweek

JUNE 26, 2023

Virtual teams only work together for a particular task or project and then go their separate ways. After a few costly failures to hire quality remote workers , we’ve built Toggl Hire – an all-in-one screening, assessing, and hiring platform! They also work together on projects but report to the same manager.

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

There’s no way to completely eliminate the risk of things going wrong with your project. But you can prepare for these project management challenges, keep solutions handy before they happen—or at least reduce their impact on the project’s success. It’s also known as “constantly changing project scope.”. Scope creep.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 27, 2020

Lean Project Management can fix this. In this article, we’re going to explore: What is Lean Project Management? What is Lean Project Management? Let’s start with a definition: Lean Project Management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the practice of project management. Ready to dive in?

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Teamweek

JANUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, Henry Ford was an early adopter of the 40-hour workweek in the 1920s after realizing that longer hours didn’t necessarily lead to more output from his workers. . Project management software company Basecamp does 32-hour weeks during the summer months. author of The Sweet Spot: How to Accomplish More By Doing Less. .

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Resource Guru

AUGUST 18, 2023

That provides space to keep projects on track and on budget. Build robust processes Building robust processes early on is a value-producing activity. That means fewer late nights, working lunches, and weekend shifts to get projects over the line. A birds-eye view of how to get from A to B for projects and operations.

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Wrike

JULY 29, 2021

Project planning is all about accuracy. With about 28% of projects failing due to imprecise cost estimates, it’s clear that your project plan deserves time and attention. Let’s take a deeper look into cost overrun, causes of project delay, and how to successfully complete projects while managing cost overrun.

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Proofhub

JULY 16, 2019

Even after spending all that time and money: Executives consider more than 67 percent of meeting to be failures. You keep one large project to tackle in the day (your “1”) along with three medium-sized tasks (your “3”), and, finally, five small tasks that are easy to take care of (your “5”). Sometimes your meetings end early.

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Resource Guru

MAY 9, 2023

Agency resource planning and management processes help you align the right people with available project work. Project success and satisfied clients will naturally follow. Fewer meetings make it easier to allocate resource time to billable projects. More billable hours and projects mean revenue: revenue means profit.

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Teamweek

MAY 9, 2023

If you “wing” the interview and determine the flow of the interview on the spot, it will come out as highly subjective and biased. For example, you can test a developer’s technical abilities by giving them a few lines of code to fix on the spot. What helps you bounce back when things are not going to plan?

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Teamweek

JULY 22, 2020

In another study, 86% of employers and employees state that lack of collaboration and communication in the workplace is the primary reason for workplace failures. Tell me about a successful project you completed as part of a team. Often times, work processes depend on one another, so one bad link can delay the entire project.

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Wrike

AUGUST 9, 2021

That horizontal leadership structure can lead to a lot of camaraderie, but the day-to-day roles and responsibilities related to project ownership and completion can get messy and chaotic. That wasted time can be costly when every minute and dollar spent in the early startup days are precious, especially when nine out of 10 startups fail.

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Planio

MAY 2, 2018

It’s got the best spot and is (or should be) extremely visible to everyone. If you’re using Agile or Scrum project management , OKRs are still a great option. While your mission, vision, and goals state the change you want your company to make, Objectives are the devices used to measure the success or failure of those efforts.

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Runrun.it

AUGUST 7, 2019

For instance, project management software that provides a straightforward way for you to communicate with your employees and send and receive key documents or revised spreadsheets. However, companies have also had to grapple with resistance among employees and the need to learn from potential failures during the implementation process.

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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 18, 2017

And you may be ready for a project management course. But, for a new project manager, project management books are still a great way to learn. And for those of us with experience under our belts, the right project management books can offer new insights and ideas. The result is five project management books.

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Teamweek

MARCH 5, 2020

Here are some clues that you have a bottleneck: People waiting on others Work piling up on anyone’s desk Missing project deadlines Inaccurate estimates Errors in communication. Those findings were then leveraged to create systems that prevent future failures. We keep missing design deadlines, which makes the rest of the project late.

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Teamweek

MARCH 17, 2020

Your ambition is admirable, but you’re probably setting yourself up for failure. Who it’s for: People who keep pushing a large project off. Why it works: Are you an early bird who does your best work in the morning? Documenting this can help you spot themes and identify times of day when you’re at your best. Timeboxing.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Today, Mike Cottmeyer sits down with Andrew to discuss how LeadingAgile is talking about OKRs and KPIs, the impact governance and teaming strategies have on your ability to run them effectively, why your project mentality might be getting in the way, and how you can get started using them in your business. Is there a parallel there in an OKR?

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