Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
We’re part way through Quarter 1 and you’re thinking what a great year it’s been so far at work. Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the competencies I need to succeed.
Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Are you looking for ways to improve your project communication? You’re not alone. Most project managers know that 90% of their time is spent in communicating – hearing, speaking, and seeking to understand. Project managers constantly communicate — coaching, summarizing action items, influencing stakeholders, educating team members, listening, facilitating decisions, creating a contract with a third party, escalating an issue, and meeting with a project sponsor, to name a few.
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Binfire
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
You are promoted to manage your first project, congratulations! Since you are a serious manager you have decided to improve the team’s productivity by purchasing one of the project management tools available in the market. That is awesome! you are on the right track to becoming a great project manager. But your team is giving you a hard time and is pushing back by telling you that there is no need to purchase Project Management software because it is too complex, expensive, takes a long ti
Herding Cats
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
To increase the Probability of Project success means we have to know something about the attributes and measures of the Five Immutable Principles that enbale this project success, when managing in the presence of uncertainty. All engineering projects, including software projects, are a constrained optimization problems. How do we take the resources we have and deliver the best outcomes requested by those paying?
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Stepping Into Project Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Grab a coffee and get reading :) Here are some random reads for Feb: How to get a better paying job in IT industry Looking into productivity patterns P roject management online courses Rapidstart PMO review Building an Agile Enterprise Change plan Visually Changing role of product management Day in the life of a product manager Moving from project management to product management Just in case you want to read more, try the 20 books for project managers.
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Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Remember TOC: The Theory of Constraints? Goldratt explained it in his business novel "The Goal". TOC is alive and well if you use Kanban in your WIP management First, you may ask, before considering the theory: What is a constraint? Limitation on throughput What’s throughput? Stuff, outcomes, that are valuable to business or client That which is value-add to the business value.
TimeCamp
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
App promotion websites that you can use to quickly make your creation more popular. We know very well how hard it is to create a solid app – it takes time, patience, teamwork, and a lot of heart. Once we finish it, we would like it to get as many users, as possible, as we know […].
EarthPM
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Our latest blog post from Projects@Work is particularly interesting in that it goes over some recent (and fantastic!) discoveries from the world of life science. The discoveries are around the way that forests run (thus the lame reference to Forrest Gump in the post title). It’s about connections. It involves beagles, mushrooms, a critter named a ‘springtail’, and of course, trees.
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