Project Risk Coach

MARCH 26, 2016

Do you remember the first time you missed a project deadline? I do. I recall the embarrassment for me and my team. I promised myself I would take proactive steps to mitigate this outcome for future projects. Why do projects take longer than expected? Often times, risks occur and project managers lack adequate schedule reserves. Once burned, many project managers start a bad habit – padding their project schedules.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 11, 2016

Kano analysis is a new product feature/function evaluation tool that gives visualization to feature/function relative merit over time as trends change. The usual presentation is a four-sector grid with trend lines that connect the sectors. The grids are defined by the horizontal and vertical scales that are easily set up on a white boad in the war room (don't take the word 'scale' too.

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Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 15, 2016

Horrible headlines and a horrible situation. The above costs come from a report published by Budget and Performance Committee of the London Assembly. Some of the statistics and comments in the report are astounding and some are below: · ….TfL has grossly mismanaged its signalling contract with Bombardier, which means that anyone taking the District, Circle, Metropolitan, or Hammersmith & City lines will have to wait five years longer than originally expected to see the improvements.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2016

Work/life balance comes up time and time again when I speak to people. We’re all desperate for a bit more time in the day, either to fit in more work or to fit in more slippers-and-TV time or something inbetween. For me, an extra hour in the day would probably just mean more pushing Thomas trains around the wooden track. Read on to see the advice that 6 real project managers have for getting a meaningful work/life balance.

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Planning

Kiron Bondale

MARCH 20, 2016

The hurdles which today’s project managers face are likely to be replaced by new threats over time. For example, when the profession first started to be formalized, the tools weren’t available to facilitate highly virtual projects and hence the advantages and disadvantages of those types of projects weren’t realized. Improvements in virtual reality technologies, near zero communication latency, increased global literary, self-serve professional development and crowdsourcing bec

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 11, 2016

Last week, we looked at why we evaluate risks — it saves time and money by allowing us to focus on the risks that matter most. Before we look at HOW to improve your qualitative risk analysis, allow me to share one more quick example of WHY it’s important. Have you ever had a termite guy (you know — the guys from Bugs-R-Us or whatever) check your house?

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 17, 2016

I like headlines that have a simple message This one--No more self-organizing teams--caught my eye for three reasons: I agree with the sentiment It was written by Jim Highsmith, who rights some good stuff I have an interest in leadership per se Now, to be fair, Mike Cohn has an excellent counter-point blog, except he more or less supports the thesis we present here when he (Mike) quotes.

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Ron Rosenhead

MARCH 29, 2016

The group were sipping coffee and chatting until I interrupted them. I asked them take a look at the question posed putting some thoughts onto post it notes. The question was: So what is project sponsorship like in your organisation? Slowly, they started to write. I called a halt just before I started speaking (this was an event hosted by the British Computer Society in central London.).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2016

It’s been an odd month for reading. I’ve tried to choose things to read that are short because while I like the escape of a novel, I am struggling to find the brainpower to commit to anything for any length of time. I read The Half Truth *, by Sue Fortin, a story with a cover that belies what it is really about. It is far better and more gripping than you are led to believe.

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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

Finance

Kiron Bondale

MARCH 27, 2016

I wrote an article in October 2015 describing how the eight forms of waste (a foundational lean tool) can affect project teams. Let’s do a deeper dive into the waste of over-processing. Over-processing occurs whenever someone continues to work on an activity past the point where it would be deemed acceptable from a customer’s perspective or past the point where meaningful value is being added.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 31, 2016

Posted in General Tools. [link]. Yesterday’s PMO was plagued with some serious issues: ineffective resource management, lack of visibility and inability to demonstrate value. Fortunately, Clarizen’s new approach can help you to better manage and streamline any PMO, whether it’s a legacy group or a newly formed organization. Sign up for a 30-day trial.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 18, 2016

How can we better your quantitative risk analysis? Let’s talk about what it is, why it’s important, when you need to perform it, and a few techniques you can use. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. What is Quantitative Risk Analysis? When a doctor says you have a high temperature, she is describing your temperature in qualitative terms.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 30, 2016

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling the culprit Coupling? Coupling is system engineering speak for transferring one effect onto another, or causing an effect by.

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Certification

Susanne Madsen

MARCH 2, 2016

According to Harvard Business Review (HBR), being forward-looking and enlisting others in a shared view of the future is one of the attributes that most distinguishes leaders from non-leaders. In an ongoing survey, HBR asked tens of thousands of people around the world what attributes they were looking for and most admire in a leader. The number one requirement—honesty—was also the top-ranking attribute of a good colleague.

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TeamGantt

MARCH 31, 2016

Get tactical advice on how to ensure your client understands the details of your project plan so you can set clear expectations and maximize buy-in.

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Paymo App

MARCH 24, 2016

That’s the key finding of a recent report released by research and reviews firm Software Advice. The company receives hundreds of project management software consultation requests annually and has selected for this study a random sample of recent consultations to learn more about SMB buyers searching for cloud-based PM solutions. In this context PM software acquisition remains a top business priority.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 4, 2016

Posted in General Tools. Could Wrike be the answer to your project management software woes? A growing number of big digital companies like Paypal, Gapgemni and Hootsuite seem to think so – they’ve begun using Wrike as a project management software solution to manage their digital projects. We all know how on large projects, with lots of resources, stakeholders, dependencies and complexity you’re going to find yourself drowning if you’re not equipped with the right tools.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 2, 2016

John Smith was hired as a new project manager at a leasing company, and he was assigned a small project with a team of six people. The project goal was to reduce customer billing defects by 10% before the end of the year. How well did John use risk management to accomplish his goal? He and his team completed a project plan and identified project risks.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 20, 2016

The introverted leader: is this an oxymoron? In my experience: definitely not. And, my experience aligns well with Susan Cain's popular book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. And by introverted, we mean: Someone who gets more energy out of quiet time--loner time, even if in an open plan--than they do mixing in a group.

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Green Project Management

MARCH 23, 2016

According to ISO 21500, Guidance on Project Management, a stakeholder is a person, group or organization that has interests in, or can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by, any aspect of the project. It is commonly taught that stakeholders are identified, analyzed and managed. Manage however is a curious word. […]. The post The Stakeholder in the Stakeholder; Overcoming Adversity appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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TeamGantt

MARCH 23, 2016

Master how to write a project brief, review brief examples, & learn why it’s vital to include a brief in your project plan with TeamGantt.

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Innovation

Brett Harned

MARCH 7, 2016

I've been thinking a good deal about the principles that should guide our community. But what rolls up to those principles is the vision you have for the role you play in your day-to-day as a digital project manager (or whatever similar title you may hold). The way you present your role and value to the people you work with is so important to your success as a DPM.

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Project Management Hacks

MARCH 24, 2016

Meena Dowlwani​, CHRM. Moving to a new country is exciting. Immigration is often the result of months or years of planning, research and logistics. Unfortunately, many highly educated and capable new Canadians struggle to find rewarding professional opportunities. It doesn’t have to be that way. Enter Meena Dowlwani. Among other roles, she serves as a Humber College instructor who has achieved great career results since arriving in Canada in 1999.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 5, 2016

Evaluating risks save you time and money. Too often, project managers assign resources and spend money to manage risks that are unnecessary. Because these project managers do not know whether certain threats are significant, they may respond in ways that cause more harm than good. Photo courtesy of DollarPhotoClub.com (edited in Canva). I learned a lot about evaluating risks as a cotton scout in the early 80s.

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 2, 2016

In the beginning, there was pre-history Agile, almost prehistoric era: Before 2000 and the meeting in Utah that birthed modern Agile Rogue developers trying various "light weight" and "rapid" prototyping and coding practices. In the SEI world, a ghastly level 1 operation of different strokes for different folks Everyone else slaving to command and control -- SEI maturity model uber alles!

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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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