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Emerging Trends & Challenges in Information Technology

ProjectManager.com

The best IT teams often operate efficiently in the background as they create and automate tasks for smooth business operations. By being aware of these important trends, IT project teams can find success regardless of their location, work style or role. Reduced visibility causes IT teams to struggle with how to prioritize projects.

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The Mad Hatter: How Many Hats Do Project Managers Have to Wear?

LiquidPlanner

If you’re a project manager – and if you are reading this you probably are… or deal with them often on a team – then you know that you often need to be a jack of all trades in order to get things done for your projects. Manage the budget closely. A 10% budget overrun can be corrected fairly easily. The financial guru hat. .

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How to be a Superhero Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

Protect all assets (Stay on budget). In most cases, project managers aren’t the functional manager of project team members, and it isn’t always clear what priorities have been set. A great way to swoop in as the hero is to ensure the project team is working on the right priorities for the company. Protect all assets.

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Six Characteristics of a Great Project Leader

LiquidPlanner

To effectively lead a project to completion, I think we agree that many soft skills are needed to manage a project team and timelines successfully. Really it’s critical for everyone on the project team, but it is an essential skill for the project leader. Let’s explore a few of them…. Excellent communicator . Emotionally intelligent.

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A Day in the Life of a Project Manager

LiquidPlanner

The daily life of a project manager can vary greatly for many reasons, such as: Project managers may manage competing priorities when there is poor alignment across the organization. Sometimes team members fall behind schedule, causing delays to the timeline and affecting other projects across the portfolio. Prepare for meetings.

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Time to Check-in on Your Mid-Year Goals

LiquidPlanner

Shifting priorities isn’t always a bad thing. Budget issues may have gotten in the way. We’ve all had times when no matter how hard we tried to progress on a project or personal goal, a budgeting issue got in the way and forced us to change direction. Make sure to take the time to revisit them even when the budget is tight.

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The Inevitability of change

Scrum.org

During the Industrial Revolution, when traditional management practices were developed, the ebb and flow of niches was a slow and deliberate endeavour, usually driven by a single educated visionary. The change was no longer necessary, and the competition was weak and slow to disrupt markets.