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How to Motivate Your Team to Track Time

LiquidPlanner

Does your team groan when you they hear the words “track time”? Is it an activity that everyone on your team tends to duck and dodge and you’re on a repeat loop every week reminding people do fill in their time sheets? It’s no secret that there’s a lot of resistance around tracking time among team members, and for a variety of reasons. But what happens when you’re managing a team who needs continual reminders?

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Project Management and Sustainable Development Goal #3 – Ensuring Healthy Lives

Green Project Management

Sustainable Development Goal #3 and Project Management, ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Installment #3 of our series in which we cover each sustainable development goal (SDG) and how projects and project management can contribute to them. This post focuses on SDG number 3, Good Health and Well-being. This goal […].

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Quick Summary of Estimating Advice

Herding Cats

There's lots of misinformation going around again in the #NoEstimates community. We can't estimate things we've never done before - this is simply not true. There is not much that hasn't been done before in some form. If you truley haven't done the work before, you're probabiliy not the right person to be estimating for those wanting to pay you. . Estimates are guesses, because we don't know that the future is - this is a fundamental misunderstanding (either with intent or omission) on how estim

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Deserving Better

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Jo Cox’s murder, and knowing that her children – one the same age as one of mine – will grow up without their mother, has affected me greatly. And at the same time I’m aware that the depth of my feelings is nothing compared to her friends, family, colleagues and those who knew her personally. Today I was supposed to publish a book extract here on the blog.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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A brief history of project scheduling

Musings on Project Management

Patrick Weaver gave a talk at Primavera06 about the history of scheduling. His talk is captured in an interesting paper: "A brief history of scheduling: back to the future" Patrick is somewhat of a historian and prognosticator on matter such as these. He also has written: The Origins of Modern Project Management: www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Resources_Papers_050.html ‘Trends In Modern Project.

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Difficult Negotiation? Check Yourself!

PMStudent

Negotiating with a difficult person is not about winning or getting them to do things YOUR way. It is about moving beyond the barriers to a breakthrough. Once you do you will have a stronger professional relationship and an outcome that is beneficial to both sides. The post Difficult Negotiation? Check Yourself! appeared first on PMStudent.

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