Mon.Jan 16, 2017

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Business Leadership for IT Projects [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Before I’d got far reading Gary Lloyd’s Business Leadership for IT Projects I realised he was offering a critical assessment on the Standish report on project failure – thankfully. I knew then that we were going to get along just fine. Don’t get me wrong – I have no issue with the Standish research and the CHAOS report itself, but it is often used for a quick headline without any analysis of how the numbers were arrived at.

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3 Team Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates

Project Risk Coach

Improve buy-in and support for your project budgets Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when trying to improve cost estimates? You’re not alone. Actually, you have a team. Many project managers are left to their own devices when estimating projects. This can be rather challenging. So, how can we improve our cost estimates? I’d like to suggest something different — engage your project team and key stakeholders.

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Managers need to motivate remote workers

Binfire

As an entrepreneur and owner of a software company, I know first-hand how hard it is to recruit top notch talent. About five years ago, we instituted a work from home hiring policy. At Binfire, when we hire developers or customer support technicians, we no longer require them to work from our offices. In fact almost 90 percent of our employees are remote workers.

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Resource Planning Software: Why Managers Choose Ganttic

Ganttic

There are hundreds of Gantt chart resource planning tools out there. We are sure that whatever your need are - you’ll find a software that will meet them. Ganttic isn’t right for everyone. There isn’t a tool in the project management or resource planning scenery that would be right for everyone. Nevertheless, Ganttic might just be the one for you. Our happy customers have had their say in what they like about our resource scheduling tool.

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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’s does 2017 look like for Project Management

Celoxis

As a project management software company in existence for the last 15 years, we have been fortunate to have front row seats to the evolution of the Project Management discipline. From the rise of social project management to the significance of collaboration and management reporting, we have seen Project Management rise above the mundane and have imbibed it into our product philosophy.

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Best Time Tracking App for iOS

TimeCamp

Despite some strange practices applied lately by Apple Inc. (farewell, dear 3,5mm headphone jack!), their phones sell like hotcakes, and their fanbase is constantly growing. iPhone is the symbol of the modern mobile phones, called smartphones (being the first of its kind – when Steve Jobs announced it launch in 2007, it was a breakthrough.) Also, […].

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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