Zen Project Management
JULY 29, 2014
Yesterday was the first full day of Agile2014. In general it was a pretty good day. The original keynote speaker, Aneesh Chopra, apparently had to cancel. His replacement, Sam Guckenheimer, provided an overview of Microsoft's journey to agile. It was an ok case study with some interesting information, but it wasn't a motivational keynote to get us all charged up.
Wrike
JULY 21, 2014
. Today, Gantt charts are a staple tool in project management software. They show up in project binders, on boardroom walls, in project management plans — all because they are able to visually convey what would take paragraphs of boring text. But who invented them? What makes them beneficial for project planning? And what are the useful parts of every Gantt chart?
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Velociteach
JULY 29, 2014
So, you’ve decided you want to be a PMP? Congratulations, you’ve just made it passed step one! Venturing onwards, there are a few requirements to get you to your PMP exam seat and out the door with three letters to add to your name. First things first, I always recommend that you have a sense […] The post What Are the Requirements to Take the PMP Exam?
quantmleap
JULY 24, 2014
T he four weeks or so that have now passes since the Agile 2014 Conference in Melbourne have given me the opportunity to reflect on the conference and consider some of the presentations and messages I have been exposed to. While the theme of the conference was Embracing Disruption, and while a number of the key note presentations were about Business Disruption, there was little in terms of providing hands-on, practical, implementable clues or ideas for ‘how to elicit disruption’.
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Guerrilla Project Management
JULY 7, 2014
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Zen Project Management
JULY 2, 2014
Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. One of the challenges I often face when I start working with a new client that has not been following agile is the amount of time expected from their business people. Their approach has always been that the business people meet with business analyst (BA), tell them what they want, and come back 9 months later to see what got built.
Wrike
JULY 30, 2014
Our friends over at TechnologyAdvice spend a lot of time gathering the best tech advice for you to improve your work performance. This guest post from one of their writers, Christopher Herbert, tells you the three things you need to take your projects down the road to success. A project’s success or failure is judged by its adherence to the guidelines established when it began.
Velociteach
JULY 22, 2014
I shared salary data for project managers in a recent post, PMP Certification: Show Me the Money! The gap in median salary for those who hold the PMP certification was significant. $18,500. That was the difference in annual pay. PMPs earned on average nearly twenty grand more than their non-credentialed peers. Nice! Would you like to […] The post Who Wants an $18,500 Raise?
quantmleap
JULY 10, 2014
I f there is anything we can and have learned from the Global Financial Crisis is that what we were taught at university in the 80s was blatantly wrong. The over reliance on mathematically elegant Macro Economic models at the expense of the necessary immersion in what makes the REAL world work. I can recall with some sense of apprehension the aesthetically beautiful graphical models showing how market forces will emerge to push markets into an efficient equilibrium.
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Guerrilla Project Management
JULY 7, 2014
Managing your first ERP project is the ultimate challenge you will face in your career as a project manager.
PM for the Masses
JULY 28, 2014
It’s July of 2014 and we just watched the largest party on Earth take place in my birth country of Brazil. As a Brazilian I had mixed feelings about this World Cup because there was a lot of controversy as Brazil prepared for the event, and it seemed like the problems were a combination of […]. The post Epic Project Management: Managing the World Cup and The Olympics: Episode 45 appeared first on Project Management for the Masses.
Sudipta Lahiri
JULY 30, 2014
As Agile gets larger acceptance across the industry, the (manual) testing community has been concerned about how it will impact them. They hear about developers doing testing, test automation and hence wonder – what role am I going to be play? Is this going to kill my job? The concern is natural given a general perception that in Agile, developers should be doing testing.
Wrike
JULY 25, 2014
One of the biggest trends in project management in 2014 is the shift to virtual training. After all, online learning is often more time-efficient , allowing you to fit in coursework whenever you have free time and limiting the hours you need off work. They can be more cost-efficient by eliminating travel expenses. Some argue they’re even more effective , since you can learn at your own pace, without cramming three months’ worth of material into your head only to have most of it leak
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Velociteach
JULY 8, 2014
In a series of posts, we’ve been exploring topics related to the PMP certification. –PMP Certification: Is It Right for You? –What Happens After You Pass the PMP Exam? –How the PMP Certification Makes Careers Soar You may be thinking: Let’s talk about salary and earning potential. Why should I endure the pain & suffering […] The post PMP Certification: Show Me the Money!
quantmleap
JULY 28, 2014
L ike many things in life, Retrospective – as a concept – can have many layers of abstraction. At the superficial level it can be used to identify symptoms and find ways dealing with them. At a deeper level it can be used to highlight symptoms and attempt a rudimentary root-cause-analysis and possible experiments to address them. At a fundamental level it can be used to highlight symptoms, explore their causes and explore the attitudes and motivations that need changing in order to better addres
quantmleap
JULY 17, 2014
T he Agile story, at some levels is a rosy one. A Manifesto that stipulates a set of values, a collection of principles that underpins these values and teams of people of different skills working together in collaboration and harmony to deliver value in the most efficient and lean way. Behind the scenes however, organizational politics, power games and internal manoeuvring have the motive and the opportunity to use some of these values and principles in a manner not intended for originally.
quantmleap
JULY 21, 2014
J ust finished reading David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (note: affiliated link) by Malcolm Gladwell. The key premise of the book is that things are not what they seem to be. More specifically, using a number of real life examples, it demonstrates how situations they seem to be advantageous are really (in some circumstances) an indication of disadvantage and similarly, situations where the odds seem to be stacked against the main character result in a favori
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quantmleap
JULY 13, 2014
G eorge Bernard Shaw once put it: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Think about it!
PM for the Masses
JULY 7, 2014
This episode marks one year of the PM for the Masses Podcast. I can’t believe how far we have come with the show. Just a year ago I did not know many of my guests and most of you who listen to the show and visit the website. I think it’s fair to say I […]. The post The Human Side of Business and Ways We Make Stuff Up: Episode 43 appeared first on Project Management for the Masses.
Wrike
JULY 15, 2014
Small business owners do it all: juggle responsibilities, shift roles without a hitch, and stretch every dollar to do more with less, all while keeping their heads above water and their businesses afloat. It’s not surprising then that more and more small businesses are turning to project management tools to become more competitive, efficient, and profitable.
Wrike
JULY 11, 2014
We’re big fans of the cloud here at Wrike. As you can tell from the tool we build and the other tools we use every single day. We’re not the only ones — cloud adoption is flourishing. A chorus of tech innovators and business leaders are singing the praises of the cloud, and more than 60% of businesses rely on cloud solutions to power their projects.
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