The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Plus, there is a vibrant wealth of knowledge out there (books, websites, blogs, podcasts, communities of practice, magazines such as ‘Project’ and so on) that project managers today can tap in to.

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2017 Certification Influencer Executing 150

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Follow more of Chris’s insights at his blog EntrePMeur. He has a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Technology Management with an emphasis in Building Construction Management and Master’s of Science in Project Management. He is a certified PMP.

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Construction Controlling Influencer Leadership 207

Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Project Meetings: 3 Steps to Maximize Efficiency This is a guest post by Kathlika Thomas, head writer for the IT Project Blog. You'll also like: Intelligent Planning: interview with Vanessa Carpenter Putting together a project schedule is all well and good, but it only really comes to life when you add in people. After all, you.

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Ron Rosenhead

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Picture courtesy of Glen Alleman who has a blog site – Herding cats . It is however easier to deal with at the front end of the project rather than the back end; when you deliver and what you deliver is ‘not what was wanted.’ ’ So, let me ask you, are you all on the same page in your projects?

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Initiating Process Governance Government 142

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

On Line PM Course has listed the 50 Greatest Project Management Blogs in alphabetical order.

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TeamGantt

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

There's no “holy grail” to create a perfect work team. However, there is a vital mix of principles that are at work in nearly every high-performance team.

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Binfire

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For example if you are a blogger and write in your to-do list ” I need to write a blog post, I know it is very important for my online business”, Well that is not a plan but just a wishlist. If you write I will spend 2 hours a day, five days a week and I will publish 2 blog posts a week, then you have a decent plan.

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Planning Software Review Defining Risk Management 87

Wrike

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Check out our blog post on 5 Online Project Management Courses for Beginners for a full list of PM courses and certifications. . The post What it Means to be a Digital Project Manager appeared first on Blog Wrike. If you’ve already made the switch to digital project management, share your story. Resources: Indeed.com.

Software Review 71

Software Review Technical Review Certification PMO 71

Redbooth

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Selling Power provides an online magazine, a blog, events, a TV channel and other resources to help sales teams lead their sales forces to deliver higher revenues. Our co-founder and CEO, Yuri Sagalov, recently authored an article in Selling Power magazine titled Successfully Navigating a Sales Pivot.

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Controlling Defining Process 60

Celoxis

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That’s our aim with this blog; 7 hacks to make meetings more effective. Sadly, 71% of employees feel that meetings are unproductive and executives feel that over 67% of meetings are failures (Source: The Muse). Doing away with meetings is not the solution. We just need to find ways to make meetings more effective.

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Executing Software 50

Digite

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In David Anderson’s initial blogs “ [link] ” he has clearly emphasized the importance of reducing the lead or cycle time of a Kanban system. The post Cycle Time goes Visual appeared first on Digité Blog. Cycle time is the time taken by a Kanban card to move from start to end on the board (or some part thereof). Priyank Parekh.

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Controlling Closing Initiating Lean 60

TeamGantt

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Is there a magic formula to building a great team? Maybe not, but there are certain qualities that the best teams possess that you can emulate as well.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

appeared first on Digité Blog. The culture change challenge is tough to win, but Essential SAFe 4.0 hopes to show you can do it. Anshuman Singh. Product Manager, SAFe. The post Essential SAFe 4.0 – How is it Different from SAFe 4.0?

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Lean Cadence Agile 2016 83

Susanne Madsen

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Maybe that’s why so many of us are interested in time management tips and productivity blogs. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that they felt great about procrastinating and completing work later than planned.

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Planning 73

Wrike

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

appeared first on Blog Wrike. No matter which method you choose, you can closely monitor progress with a project timeline, maintain communications with team members and stakeholders, and easily share important information and documents. Sources: Telegraph.co.uk , Queue.ACM.org , CIO.com , Inc.com , Forbes.com.

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Construction Finance Manufacturing Innovation 46

Binfire

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Project planning only works for projects involving manual or mundane tasks like manufacturing or writing a blog or recursive tasks like accounting and customer support. The arguments is that you really can’t plan for projects involving knowledge work. Truth: This can’t be any further from truth.

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Software Review PMI Certification Software 87

TimeCamp

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from this week, chosen by our team! We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles […].

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2017 40

TimeCamp

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from this week, chosen by our team! We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles […].

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2017 40

TimeCamp

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from this week, chosen by our team! We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles […].

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2017 40

Celoxis

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Did you get promoted? Congratulations! All your hard work and great work ethic have paid off. This promotion is more than just about yourself now. Being a manager is about handling not just the work, but also people. An excellent people manager gets the best out of their team members.

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Leadership Software 65

Celoxis

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

There is no doubt that a self-sufficient team is the pillar of a successful project. Moreover, for it to flourish, the workplace should be driven by trust and mutual respect. In such optimized environment, both the project manager and team members can work together hand-in-hand to deliver the best possible output.

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Influencer Software Leadership 61

Celoxis

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

According to Gartner research, collaboration software is growing in popularity among enterprise businesses. It’s so important, in fact, that it’s considered a critical capability that enterprises should prioritize when evaluating a new project and portfolio management (PPM) software. But what about small and midsize businesses (SMBs)?

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Software 54

EarthPM

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Our latest blog post from Projects@Work is particularly interesting in that it goes over some recent (and fantastic!) discoveries from the world of life science. The discoveries are around the way that forests run (thus the lame reference to Forrest Gump in the post title). It’s about connections.

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Sustainability PMO PMI 28

ActiveCollab

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

I remember discovering Active Collab on some blog and thinking it had what I needed. We are a premium agency and Basecamp didn’t look professional enough for our clients (while JIRA was too complicated). That’s why we were overjoyed when we discovered Active Collab. Why we decided to switch to Active Collab.

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Process 28

Wrike

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The post 4 Tips for an Effective Project Management Plan appeared first on Blog Wrike. With the right software and a good project management plan come together, a leader can schedule tasks, set deadlines for deliverables, and maintain visibility into how the different aspects of the project affect each other.

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Planning Risk Management Risk Closing 54

Project Management Hacks

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’ve also learned some blog writing techniques by studying the work of other highly successful bloggers. Resource: To dive further into mental models, read Creating a Latticework of Mental Models: An Introduction from the excellent Farnam Street blog. Can you give me feedback on this small task or deliverable?

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Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Energy Risk Management 41