Tue.May 31, 2016

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8 quick ways to increase your PM knowledge

Moira Alexander

With 10 interconnected knowledge areas that incorporate the use of 47 processes organized into five process groups, project management can be a multifaceted maze to navigate. Developing a deeper understanding of this discipline can be an all-consuming and intimidating task at times, and just trying to find out where to turn for training can feel overwhelming. 5.

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Students: Lift Up The Hood & Learn Creative Workflow Software

Function Point

Guest post by Michele Della Mattia, Executive Director of Operations, The NOW Group. “Summer student” “Summer student”: in many agencies, this is a young person earning little to no pay fetching coffee, collating photocopies or doing digital drudge work until the wee hours. But this shortchanges both students and agencies. Students can offer a lot of value when you see their potential.

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7 Signs the Status Quo Isn’t Working for Your Business

LiquidPlanner

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill. It’s very easy to get comfortable with how things are and ride them out—even when those things are bad. To a large extent we’re conditioned that way from birth, molded to fit society’s current standard way of thinking and living. Most of us go from wanting to change the world to just wanting to be assimilated into it.

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Students: Lift Up The Hood & Learn Creative Workflow Software

Function Point

Guest post by Michele Della Mattia, Executive Director of Operations, The NOW Group. “Summer student” “Summer student”: in many agencies, this is a young person earning little to no pay fetching coffee, collating photocopies or doing digital drudge work until the wee hours. But this shortchanges both students and agencies. Students can offer a lot of value when you see their potential.

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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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Empathy and the Sponsored User

Zen Project Management

Empathy is an important attribute in Design Thinking. In order to solve our customer's problems, we really need to understand them. We need to walk in their shoes. But there's a limit to how far we can take this. We can spend hours talking to an astronaut, but we will never truly understand what it's like to walk in space. Agile has this idea of the Product Owner, but you don't see much written in agile about empathy.

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