ProjectManager.com
JULY 11, 2017
Project management is not an easy job. In fact, it’s several not-easy jobs, including the initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing of a project. Even more difficult, that project is delegated to a team of your choosing, given specific goals to achieve over a defined timeline for a determined budget. And you have to do all that successfully.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 26, 2017
This article, How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Help! I’m an accidental or new project manager. How do I get started? Simon Harris. That was one of the questions asked recently in Project Management Café, our Facebook Group (what, you’re not a member? Hop over and join us now! ). Simon Harris was our expert guest for the week, hosting the chat on the theme of ‘The Accidental PM’s Surgery’ and this is what he had to share about ho
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Project Risk Coach
JULY 17, 2017
Some vendors exploit the weaknesses of your employees This is a guest post by my twin brother Charles. He is a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He is a partner in the firm McNair, McLemore, and Middlebrooks & Co. Charles lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife Kelley. He is the author of The Little Book of Local Government Fraud Prevention and Preparation of Financial Statements & Compilation Engagements.
Project Bliss
JULY 25, 2017
Are you considering a career move? . Perhaps you’re considering Project Management because it uses many skills you already have. But wait. You’ve also heard that teams are going Agile and that Scrum Master might be a good option. Or maybe you’re already a Project Manager, and you’re wondering if a Scrum Master job might be a good move.
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The Digital Project Manager
JULY 18, 2017
What went wrong for project planning, and is it still useful for project management? We tackle the tricky question, ‘does a good project plan matter?', share a handy project plan checklist infographic and give you a step by step guide to creating a project plan complete with a website redesign project plan template. The post How To Create The Perfect Project Plan.
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ProjectManager.com
JULY 7, 2017
Organize your team’s work schedule to better manage your project’s workflow with a simple work schedule template. You can note the days your team is work on the project or a particular task, as well as collect their pay rate and hours spent completing those tasks. A work schedule template is a crucial arm in handling the resources, so you can control your project as it progresses to a successful completion.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 12, 2017
In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. Pam has amazing energy and is the kind of person who grabs every opportunity.
Project Risk Coach
JULY 5, 2017
I have had the privilege of managing two PMOs, both composed of several project managers. It was always interesting to watch—the best project managers were the ones who had a habit of identifying risks, both threats and opportunities. And these individuals did not perform the risk identification just once at the beginning of their projects. Rather, they had a habit of reevaluating their projects with an eye toward new risks.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 7, 2017
Want a happy client? (Who doesn't?) Don't be late! Which means: establish -- mutually -- the most valuable milestone (as seen by the client) and then. protect it! How? with a buffer. The buffer is unscheduled time used to capture the unforeseen overflow of work from the backlog, or to work off essential debt collected along the way.
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
Kiron Bondale
JULY 3, 2017
While it is frequently used by agile teams to size work items (e.g. user stories), planning poker can also be used to facilitate other types of decision making so why not use it for qualitative risk analysis? A common approach to this process is to utilize a Likert scale from very low to very high or even just low, medium and high to assess the probability and impact of identified risks.
The Lazy Project Manager
JULY 3, 2017
The following is an extract from my new book ‘How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all’ in association with my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions – the extracts follow a series of 5 Challenges that I think every organisation should consider, and consider very carefully: Challenge 4 – Invest in good analysis and good reporting.
The Digital Project Manager
JULY 5, 2017
I’ve been working in project management for quite a long time (I’m not going to give exact figures here, but I’ve been around since the. The post Agile vs Waterfall. What Should You Use For Your Project? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 17, 2017
Nobody wants to sit through a meeting and feel it was pointless, so why is up to half of the time attendees spend in meetings wasted? It demoralises your team and is unproductive. Putting some thought into the objectives and format of your meeting in advance will allow you to get the most out of your attendees’ time. Take this project as an example.
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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.
Project Risk Coach
JULY 10, 2017
Discover the Power of Project Procurement Management As we initiate our projects, we may find that our organization lacks the skills and knowledge to create the project deliverables and meet the project objectives. In other cases, we may need products outside of our organization. Project managers use procurement management to secure these needed products and services.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 11, 2017
Normal 0. false false false. EN-US X-NONE X-NONE. Doing a hybrid agile-traditional project? Many do; perhaps [gasp!] most real projects are hybrids. You can't really do Agile all the time everywhere on everything. And, so, inevitably, we.
Kiron Bondale
JULY 10, 2017
When documents are used to track project information, a common approach is to create a consolidated workbook in MS Excel for tracking risks, actions, issues and decisions. This is usually referred to as a RAID log. The benefit of this approach beyond having the information in a convenient, centralized location is that there are logical relationships between these disparate elements which can be easily reflected if they are consolidated.
Ron Rosenhead
JULY 26, 2017
This was the sentiment expressed by one person on a recent project management course. This person was not alone; many of the group agreed. We discussed whether the sponsor should understand project management and it was agreed that while they did not need to know every technique they should have ‘a very good overview.’. It raises an interesting issue – just how much does a project sponsor need to know and how do we ensure they have that knowledge?
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Inloox
JULY 11, 2017
Reasons for the widening gap The PMI has shown in his latest Pulse of the Profession Report that the project management maturity of organizations is increasing. Not only are they getting better at implementing PM processes and methods, they are also finally seeing the fruits of their labor. IT project success rates are finally improving after years of continual decline.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 5, 2017
This is a guest article by Dr Mike Clayton from OnlinePMCourses.com. We all know that defining your project well is the foundation of good project management. Without it, you’re managing a mess. And there’s one thing I’ve learned in training many thousands of project managers. This one topic seems to hold the biggest light-bulb moments.
Project Risk Coach
JULY 24, 2017
Project Procurement Management For most of my career, I have served in financial service organizations. As a project and program manager and PMO director, I’ve had the responsibility of procuring the necessary products and services from sellers. In other words, I was a buyer. I recently left the corporate world to develop my LLC where I provide consulting services and teach courses to help project managers prepare for their PMP and PMI-RMP exams.
Ganttic
JULY 11, 2017
Whether we want to believe it or not, men and women have always been viewed as two different sets of people. And of course, there are stereotypes that go with the sets. Women are supposed to like pink, and men blue. Women are supposed to take care of the children, men are supposed to bring home the bacon. Women are supposed to be emotional, men should never even shed a tear.
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LiquidPlanner
JULY 6, 2017
This story is part of our Industry 4.0 series, which looks at the new technologies, techniques, and trends that are pushing manufacturers toward a new level of optimization and productivity. Once the stuff of science fiction, the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) carrying out tasks that only humans could previously achieve has become a reality. AI, which fundamentally converts large amounts of data into intelligence, is being adopted at an increasingly rapid pace across many industry sectors,
Project-Management.pm
JULY 8, 2017
An online master of project management is one of the best investments one has in order to advance his or her certification levels or acquire one. Online education has been around for decades, catering to distance learning and for those who do not have access to extra education due to their location and schedule. Organizations need project managers who can juggle different operations and processes, all the while achieving the end result of the projects.
Kiron Bondale
JULY 31, 2017
I’m not asking for your elevator pitch for the discipline , but rather what does it mean to you personally ? Being in the middle of changing roles, the thought process I went through to decide to make a change caused me to revisit a question which I’ve asked myself more than once over the past two decades. If you see your current work in project management as a stepping stone to a higher role such as a C-level business executive then it might just be a job.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 31, 2017
This article, Behind The Scenes At PMCamp Barcelona , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. The only foreign holiday my boys have been on was to PMI EMEA in Barcelona (I take them to all the good places!). Consequently, every time my youngest sees an aeroplane he asks if it’s going to Barcelona. I don’t know how he can even remember it, being that he was 2 at the time.
Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.
When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.
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