Wed.Mar 08, 2017

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The Stakeholder Management Survey Results Are In!

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Thanks again to everyone who took my stakeholder management survey at the end of last year. It’s been insightful reading through the challenges you have engaging people on your projects. Here’s what we found out…. Why Do You Do Stakeholder Management? Stakeholder management is something we talk about a lot in project management, but what drives people to do it?

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What’s missing from your projects?

Ron Rosenhead

I was filing away action plans from a recent project management course and noticed the wording from one person who answered; stakeholder management is missing. He explained to the group that there are often issues in the ‘people aspects’ of project. He said this could be dealt with by undertaking a detailed stakeholder analysis and then putting into play some solid actions including more effective project communications.

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10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate: Ineffective Risk Management [Video]

Project Risk Coach

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. This video is part of the 10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate online course. Click here to enjoy the entire course. The post 10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate: Ineffective Risk Management [Video] appeared first on.

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Resource Planning: 6 Ways Ineffective Resource Planning Is Affecting Your Project

Ganttic

There are many steps to creating the perfect project plan. One of which is definitely scheduling resources. Taking resource planning lightly and just dragging and dropping tasks in the resource management tool without actually thinking about it too much, can lead to numerous problems. Since you probably don't want a team that feels undervalued and is overworked to be working on a project that is behind schedule and over budget, you shouldn't be underestimating what resource planning with a good

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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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What It Takes to be a Project Portfolio Manager

Wrike

. Did you wake up one morning and say to yourself, “I want to become a project portfolio manager!” but have no idea where to begin? . If you did, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll dish out all the details on becoming a project portfolio manager, including examples of job descriptions and salary ranges. . While there are several types of project management roles and methodologies out there, they all overlap in some way.

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Has Technology Helped with Workplace Mood?[Guest Post]

Brightwork

If you’ve ever worked in a company with dated technology, you know how this can be frustrating. Still, when most employers think of boosting morale, they think of things like team-building exercises and extracurricular activities. These things usually provide some lift, but their effects are likely to be temporary in the absence of adequate technology.

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Project Management Software Purchase Trends in age of Digital Transformation

Celoxis

The Project Management discipline has been going through a wave of disruption over the last decade. The globalization of business prompted the collaboration narrative, the rise of cloud tech disrupted traditional PM technology with the onset of SaaS-based project management software. Social project management has made its way into project management systems and simplified the user experience and improved adoption.

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The Top 5 Reasons To Start Tracking Time As A Project Manager

TimeCamp

“Time flies,” said Virgil in the era of Ancient Rome. After more than 2000 years this proverb continues to be a live issue – we’re experiencing it every day, still looking for a way to add another productive hour to our daily routine. But there is a way to challenge the law of physics without […].

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Best Practices for Creating the BPI Project Charter

Gina Abudi PM

Develop a document that will help you manage your BPI project! Creating a project charter for your business process improvement (BPI) projects are a best practice for a number of reasons: Enables you to get your “head” around the scope of the BPI project Enables for clarification of BPI project needs/expectations Ensures a link between [.].

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management

Empower yourself as a project manager with insights that directly influence the financial landscape and strategic direction of your organization! Join us for a deep dive into the world of financial strategy, as we dissect key metrics that drive CFOs and business leaders’ investment decisions. This session will equip you with the necessary tools to craft compelling business cases as well as a comprehensive understanding of the crucial distinction between capital expenditure and operational expend

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Understanding Earned Value Management

Project Insight

Understanding the concept of earned value is not easy. Earned value is a technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. It involves looking at data from each individual task.

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Decision Making: 3 Approaches to Help You Make “The Right” One!

Brightwork

Decision making is hard. I put my hands straight up and admit, I am one of those people who always want to make “the right” decision. How do you make the right decision? “Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.” – Mark Twain But how many people want to admit this – who wants to make a bad decision?

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Owl Aboard Parts 1 and 2

EarthPM

Check out the 2-part series “Owl Aboard!” from our Projects@Work site: Part 1: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom. Part 2: Get Your Owl On.

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5 Women Leading the Way in IT Project Management

Brightwork

International Women’s Day (March 8th) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action. It marks a call to action for gender parity – not only for International Women’s Day, but for every day. This aim for equality infiltrates all industries and roles, including project management.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.