The Digital Project Manager

MAY 27, 2016

Posted in General. There’s no doubt that co-locating a team is one of the best ways to improve communication and productivity. However, with many agencies using teams that span multiple locations, the benefits of physical co-location are not always possible. So how do you mix the trend for remote working and distributed teams with a collaborative, more agile approach, that really hinges on effective real-time teamwork and how can you achieve that feel-good, co-located feeling in a distrib

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 27, 2016

So much has been made about the future of work, from the rise of the 1099 “gig” worker to the employee who works one full-time job and moonlights in another. Not sure either of these things are really new, but the data doesn’t lie. More than 53 million Americans, or about a third of all U.S. workers have a second job. Why? One theory is that as the economy slips, so does labor churn.

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Innovation 74

The Tao of Project Management

MAY 27, 2016

Continuing the theme of what we can do to prevent projects failing: Step one was to consider if the project manager has the necessary skills to manage projects; Step two was to consider the needs of the organisation. S tep three is to chose the right projects. Picking the Right Projects We need to make sure that only projects that are critical to the business take place.

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Herding Cats

MAY 27, 2016

The basis of #Noestimates is that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without having to estimate the impact of those decisions. Here's a research paper that hopefully will put an end to the nonsensical idea of #NoEstimates. All project work is uncertain. And has been stated here endless times, uncertainty comes in two forms - Reducible (Epistemic) and Irreducible (Aleatory).

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Musings on Project Management

MAY 27, 2016

I love architecture, though I'm not an architect, and never studied architecture. Of course, I love system architecture, which is both different from building and construction per se, and identical -- because a building is a system, just as any other such integrated structure is a system. Frank Gehry is one of Canada-America's more esteemed architects.

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The Digital Project Manager

MAY 27, 2016

Posted in General The PM life. The post When it’s finally Friday! appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 27, 2016

Getting the right collaboration tool for your team is really important – as is knowing how to use it. It’s something that my book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers , goes into in a lot of detail because if you get it wrong it’s a massive waste of expense and energy. But I don’t have the monopoly on knowing how to do it. I talk to a lot of project managers about the software they use and there is often a common theme: they are pushed into finding something better because they can’t carry

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