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How to Select Your Risk Responses

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Harry Hall from projectriskcoach.com. Risk management is one of the core knowledge areas for project managers. Harry Hall. You’ve identified and assessed your project risks—both threats and opportunities. Now, you are planning your risk responses with your risk owners. A risk response is the way you intend to address the risk.

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Risk Analysis — The Managing Up Secret Weapon

Project Risk Coach

This is a guest article by Dana Brownlee from professionalismmatters.com. One of the most common questions I get when speaking to groups is “How do you deliver a difficult message to/push back on senior leaders – particularly the difficult ones?” I certainly understand the popularity of the question because that’s a sticky situation for sure. While project managers and others often find themselves in opposition to the boss’ ideas, recommendations, or preferred course of action, telling the boss

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How to Find Time to Become a Project Manager (Full System)

PM Basics

Before I became a project manager I was a sailor. During one of the voyages, I had a morning shift on the bridge for four months. In 20 minutes after the shift, there was breakfast. So, these 20 minutes were kind of useless. You can’t do anything with them. Except learning. 20 minutes a day for four months gave me 40 hours of pure reading. That’s ended up with about eight books.

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Should You Manage Your Time or Your Energy?

Scoro

Everyone has some ideas on how to better manage their time and energy. However, there seems to be this common understanding that we have to choose between the two. What if, instead of choosing one over another we can actually manage both at the same time? This 7-minute read will give you insight on how to improve your productivity with both time and energy management.

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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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How to Write a Project Scope Statement

ProProject Manager

Photo by Štefan Štefan?ík on Unsplash. As project managers, one of our most important tasks is to manage scope. A great project scope statement serves as a baseline to determine what work the project team is authorized to do and a guide for handling scope change requests. According to the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) 6th Edition, 2017, the Project Scope Statement is, “…the description of the project scope, major deliverables, assumptions, and constraints.

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GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2Crowd’s Spring 2019 Reports

GanttPRO Project Management

Spring already brought joy, happiness, and warm feelings for those who know what winter is. And G2Crowd like a spring messenger brought the marvelous news which we would never be […]. The post GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2Crowd’s Spring 2019 Reports first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Additional Recurring Task Intervals

ActiveCollab

Stroopwaffles are way more fun than reports and taxes. That doesn’t mean your body weight should rise along with that list of overdue reports. HAVE YOU PICKED THE DATE YET? We have this colleague who loves to travel and she always brings us extraordinary sweets. Last time it was a box of Scottish shortbread cookies. This time it was a bag of mini stroopwafels.

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GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2Crowd’s Spring 2019 Reports

GanttPRO Project Management

Spring already brought joy, happiness, and warm feelings for those who know what winter is. And G2Crowd like a spring messenger brought the marvelous news which we would never be […]. The post GanttPRO Achieves High Performer Award in G2Crowd’s Spring 2019 Reports first appeared on GanttPRO.

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11 Ways To Empower Your Employees At Work

Proofhub

Employee Empowerment: The Right Way to Do It In a post, we talked about building trust in teams , jam-packed with the importance of building trust and how it’s done. Yet we all know the need to empower the team to be the best. You know it takes a different kind of a leader to build a billion-dollar company; a leader that is surrounded by “empowered” staff.

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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