December, 2014

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8 Project Management Infographics You Have to See

Wrike

You just became a project manager, or you’ve been in the field for a while but you’re ready to learn more. These great project management infographics from sources all over the net provide interesting education for PMs and PM-wannabes. Check out all these infographics and learn something new. 1. Bust some p roject m anagement m yths you probably believe.

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Plan Your Agency’s Success With Project Management Software

Function Point

The New Year is fast approaching, and there is no better time than now to start thinking of ways to improve your creative agency. Transitioning your team to more efficient and profitable workflow processes is easier with an all-in-one project management software. The software can provide your team with the breakthrough you’ve been hoping for to grow your agency’s profits.

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Achieving Your PMP Goals: New Year, New You!

Velociteach

With Christmas not quite here yet, it may seem a bit overzealous to start talking about New Year’s resolutions. Call me spirited, but let’s address it anyway! I love this time of year, because there is this change in the air that promotes positive change. We’re thankful in November, celebrating in December, and soon setting […] The post Achieving Your PMP Goals: New Year, New You!

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New Resources Pt 1- Interview with Jeff Furman

Stepping Into Project Management

This is a special short and crisp series of posts that promise to help you get prepped up for 2015. And we start with some new available resources that help you get to your goal faster. We start with Jeff Furman and his second edition of the book "The Project Management Answer Book" (second edition) which is a great resource for anyone getting into project management as well as considering about getting the certification.

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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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Better Decision Making

Zen Project Management

I started reading the book Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath. They have a couple other books I've read, including Switch and Made to Stick , so I thought I'd give this a try. I'm only about a quarter through the book, but so far, I am enjoying it. It's easy to read and has some good examples to support the ideas. The book is about how to make better decisions.

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COTS – Commercial off the Shelf Lifecycle Model

Jez Lister

This article is one of a series covering COTS – Commercials off the Shelf Lifecycle model methodology, also know as package software. I first started working on COTS software products and their integration with other systems back in the 90’s when working for a large systems integrator. Since then I have implemented numerous COTS Commercial off the Shelf packages in sectors such as central government, local government, law, housing and higher education.

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Plan Your Agency’s Success With Project Management Software

Function Point

The New Year is fast approaching, and there is no better time than now to start thinking of ways to improve your creative agency. Transitioning your team to more efficient and profitable workflow processes is easier with an all-in-one project management software. The software can provide your team with the breakthrough you’ve been hoping for to grow your agency’s profits.

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Corporate Culture with Evan McBroom: Episode 73

PM for the Masses

On this last episode of the year I speak with my friend Evan McBroom about corporate culture. The post Corporate Culture with Evan McBroom: Episode 73 appeared first on Project Management for the Masses. On this last episode of the year I speak with my friend Evan McBroom about corporate culture.

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Adopting Agile Pt2- Who should be the scrum master?

Stepping Into Project Management

A lot of organizations and teams tend to appoint a scrum master for the team, sometimes against the wishes of the individual taking up the role. I think it beats the purpose of transformation. Appointing someone for the role can never lead to success. A scrum master as we know plays a crucial role during the transformation, you want someone who is interested, who will put their best foot forward and who’s up for the challenge.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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

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Ho-Ho-How Santa’s Workshop Manages Christmas

Wrike

Santa Claus: one of the most well-known, eagerly anticipated , and incredibly successful entrepreneurs in history. Each year he oversees the production and distribution of toys to every single child on his Nice List — and with over 1.9 billion children on Earth , that’s a lot of toys! He hasn’t missed a year yet, but that’s not to say it’s all sunshine and snow angels.

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How to buy Project Management Consulting Services: Service as a Product (SaaP)

Guerrilla Project Management

When you need to hire a project management consulting firm, knowing in advance exactly what services you are getting and how much they will cost you gives control and peace of mind. Innovative firms are thinking differently about how they charge for their consulting services and they are offering creative ways to package Project Management. When you need to hire a project management consulting firm, knowing in advance exactly what services you are getting and how much they will cost you gives co

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Tips For Estimating the Return on Your Project Management Software

Function Point

There are many aspects to consider when choosing a new project management software for your agency, design studio or internal marketing department. Some of the important factors to consider are: product features. support and training. ease of use. security and integration with other tools. Additionally, determining the return on investment (ROI) on implementing the tool is often the biggest question we get asked about.

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Tips For Estimating the Return on Your Project Management Software

Function Point

There are many aspects to consider when choosing a new project management software for your agency, design studio or internal marketing department. Some of the important factors to consider are: product features. support and training. ease of use. security and integration with other tools. Additionally, determining the return on investment (ROI) on implementing the tool is often the biggest question we get asked about.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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Achieve Creative Freedom With Project Management Software

Function Point

Working with many agencies, we have found the #1 thing they wish they could achieve is freedom — freedom from chaos, disorganization, overtime and stress. A project management system can help you achieve the freedom you desire. Now is the time to start putting the tools in place that will help you finally have freedom in 2015. Here are 4 ways that a project management software solution can create freedom for you and your agency: “Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; if it is not manag

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Achieve Creative Freedom With Project Management Software

Function Point

Working with many agencies, we have found the #1 thing they wish they could achieve is freedom — freedom from chaos, disorganization, overtime and stress. A project management system can help you achieve the freedom you desire. Now is the time to start putting the tools in place that will help you finally have freedom in 2015. Here are 4 ways that a project management software solution can create freedom for you and your agency: “Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; if it is not manag

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Chute Gerdeman is an award-winning strategic brand and design firm. Founded in 1989, the company is an innovator in beneficial customer brand experiences in the retail, restaurant, consumer goods and service provider industries. Summary Of Challenges Prior To Function Point. The company used custom-built, time-tracking software that was ready to update it.

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Project Management Software Case Study: Chute Gerdeman

Function Point

Chute Gerdeman is an award-winning strategic brand and design firm. Founded in 1989, the company is an innovator in beneficial customer brand experiences in the retail, restaurant, consumer goods and service provider industries. Summary Of Challenges Prior To Function Point. The company used custom-built, time-tracking software that was ready to update it.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Prep Your fp. Project Management Software For 2015

Function Point

It’s almost 2015 and it seems like every year goes by faster. It’s easy to let the holidays sneak up on you. November 1st comes around and I catch myself saying, “I can’t believe stores have Christmas decorations up already!” Really Marc? You can’t believe it? That’s funny because they go up at the same damn time every year.

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Prep Your fp. Project Management Software For 2015

Function Point

It’s almost 2015 and it seems like every year goes by faster. It’s easy to let the holidays sneak up on you. November 1st comes around and I catch myself saying, “I can’t believe stores have Christmas decorations up already!” Really Marc? You can’t believe it? That’s funny because they go up at the same damn time every year.

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Creating the Space

Stepping Into Project Management

We have so many things to think, plan and execute and as busy bees we barely get the time to get to all of these. To take up more we should also create more space in our life. Here are simple tips that I have been doing for the last 1 month- Pic Courtesy: Google Images Delegate - I delegated my grocery and regular market trips to the online way of shopping.

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Wrapping up 2014

Stepping Into Project Management

It’s been a wonderful year for me personally. Like all others it had its ups and downs, life became more complex, sometimes fun, sometimes tiring and most of all just another day I had to go through. There have been some major changes though in addition of having my son. In the last 365 days I have realized that in just going through the days and checklists and meetings and the stress, I was sometimes missing out on the fun.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Merry Christmas!

Stepping Into Project Management

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas with friends and family and doing good for others. While its never going to be a white Christmas for me in India, am just glad being around family and friends I truly care for.

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Programming your mind for success

Stepping Into Project Management

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Create New Time Tracking Habits at Your Creative Agency

Function Point

There’s no time like the present to start thinking about the changes you would like to see happen at your creative agency. As we have all learned from experience with our failed resolutions, a goal needs to be simple, measurable, and must generate the results we are looking for in a reasonable amount of time, or else it is unlikely to take hold.

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Create New Time Tracking Habits at Your Creative Agency

Function Point

There’s no time like the present to start thinking about the changes you would like to see happen at your creative agency. As we have all learned from experience with our failed resolutions, a goal needs to be simple, measurable, and must generate the results we are looking for in a reasonable amount of time, or else it is unlikely to take hold.

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From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Effective Compliance and Security Measures

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.