Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
3 Powerful Questions for Fast Tracking Your Projects In this article, let’s look at three simple and powerful questions that project managers should ask in every project, the what, why, and how of projects. Getting answers to these questions will greatly reduce risks to your projects and position you and your teams for success. 3 Key Project Questions. 1.
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
. When my daughter was very little she came home from school one day and told me the saying about assumptions: When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me. Gasp! “Where did you hear that, honey?” “At school, Mommy. Our teacher told us.” Yes, you’ve heard that one. I just didn’t expect my little one to learn that saying so early in her life.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
This article, How to Create a Project Team Culture with Colin Ellis , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. I recently did a Live Q&A with Colin Ellis in my Facebook group. Are you a member yet? Sign up for the Facebook Project Management Cafe and join in the discussion. We discussed creating a project team culture. You can watch the video or read the transcript below.
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Somebody asked: can a virtual team do Agile? 15 years ago, the answer might have been no. Seven years ago, more less pre smart phone and smart-phone networking, the answer was probably yes, but with reservations. Now, the answer is "Of course", with some adjustments. Here are my thoughts on this. The communications channel: Virtual teams often begin by emulating the behavior and.
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Ron Rosenhead
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
So let’s start with a definition or an understanding of the ‘Pareto Principle’? “The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes.”. Let me give you an example of how I used this many years ago. I was the training manager in a company that had a centralised typing pool (I did say it was many years ago).
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Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
I fear that many project managers live by the letter of the law and may fail to gain the true benefits of risk management. These individuals are too concerned with checking boxes and making the risk management processes overly complex. Let’s look at some common mistakes and how to overcome them. 1. Thou shalt not make risk management complicated. Every project is different.
Planio
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
Redesigning your site, web app, or blog always seems like a good idea. A fresh coat of paint keeps you current, improves usability, and upgrades your brand. But when it comes to a full website redesign, it’s not just what’s on the surface that counts. A full website redesign involves a lot of moving parts. And if you've already got traffic coming to your site, the last thing you want to do is ruin a good thing just because you wanted a facelift.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
This article, How to Be Assertive At Work (Nicely) , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. This is a guest article from Andy Kaufman, PMP. Andy Kaufman. I work with project managers around the world, and increasingly there’s one success trait that I find could use a tune-up. In a word, it’s assertiveness. Some of this is unquestionably cultural.
Leading Answers
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
We have shifted to Knowledge Work, but how do we find, develop and retain knowledgeable workers? This post examines Talent Management from two perspectives. First, what works well for agile teams. Second, how does the function change as organizations evolve, showing us how talent management may be done in future. Let’s start by understanding what talent management covers.
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
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
A coffee shop discussion on process redesign and process improvement led me to state the obvious to my caffeine-charged debaters: Managers responsible for the business buy results [and outcomes], not process. Process, by itself, does not sell well; what sells is results. Process per se is a tool. For the most part, business people hire experts for their ability to deliver results; what.
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
Project managers need to be comfortable with different estimation techniques. Foundational project management courses will teach you about analogous, bottom-up, parametric and three-point estimating. Take a course covering agile delivery and you’ll learn about relative sizing techniques such as estimating poker or t-shirt sizing. But have you heard of RBS?
Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Project managers should be prepared to perform different types of risk analysis. For many projects, the quicker qualitative risk analysis is all you need. But there are occasions when you will benefit from a quantitative risk analysis. Let’s take a look at this type of analysis: What is it? Why should we perform it? And when should it be performed? Continue Reading.
Planio
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
As far as changes to the way we work, few things have had as much of an impact as the rise of remote work. And why not? As our jobs shift from menial repeatable tasks to more independent, cognitively demanding roles the need to be constantly supervised has dropped dramatically. Add to that a plethora of powerful tools that make collaboration and communication easier than ever and it’s no wonder that remote work is seeing such high adoption.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
This article, Free Organisational Chart Template , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. This month’s freebie is an organisational chart template created with PowerPoint’s SmartArt tool and another sample organisational chart created from scratch, also in PowerPoint. I’ve already populated the charts with made up details so you can see how they will look.
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Effective meetings don’t just happen. It takes effort. And for that reason, you might be tempted to skip the prep work needed for a great meeting. But don’t do it. It’s easy to simply send out invitations and walk into the conference room at meeting time. But you’d be making a big mistake and missing valuable opportunities. There are three big reasons why running effective meetings is more important than you think… 1.
Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Barry Boehm on the C.R.A.C.K. Customer Dr. Barry Boehm, a noted software methodologist with a long and illustrative career at TRW, DARPA, and USC, and author of the COCOMO model and Sprial methodology, writes about the ideal customer for agile projects. They are: -- Collaborative: they will engage with their customer peers and with the development team -- Representative: they know the.
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 25, 2018
I’ve written previously about what I look for when reviewing project manager resumes as well as what I look for when hiring for these positions. Testing a candidate’s knowledge of hard or soft skills provides limited benefit to the hiring process. If they have the letters “, PMP” or “, PRINCE2” after their names, they can very likely talk the talk even if they’ve never walked the walk.
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Project Risk Coach
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
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.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Leadership is essential to any successful work environment. Managers are in charge of not only running a productive team, but ensuring that there is a positive environment in which their team can work. Recently, the concept of using mindfulness to create this sort of workplace has gained popularity. While it is easy to write the myriad of articles off simply as a passing trend, there is an increasing amount of data suggesting taking time out of your day to breathe and meditate can have concrete,
Rebel’s Guide to PM
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
This article, What I’m Reading , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. I have to get new glasses and I’m trying to give my eyes a rest from screen time by reading more on the train. Actually, my optician said that it’s not the screen itself that’s the issue, it’s the distance – having your eyes focused on one distance all the time is hard work for them.
Digite
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
This year’s Nobel for Economics has gone to the Behavioural Economist Richard Thaler. Richard is a Distinguished Professor at the Chicago Booth Business School. His big work is the influence of clues and society on individual decision making and actions. The field of Behavioural economics has fascinated me ever since I read Daniel Kahneman’s bestseller “ Thinking Fast and Slow ”.
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Musings on Project Management
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Here below I shamelessly reprint a posting from herdingcats. Why? Because Glen's point about the purpose of plans is to illuminate possibilities; not to constrain critical thinking, common sense, and accommodation for changing facts, is profound. Everyone who practices project management or team management should understand that. From herding cats: In the space of two days I had evolved.
Kiron Bondale
FEBRUARY 11, 2018
In a recent role, I had the opportunity to review the lessons submitted by teams running large, complex projects and programs and found that over 90% of what was being captured and shared was of low or no value. Back in April 2009, I published my very first blog article titled “ Lessons Learned; Avoid the Oxymoron “ Since that time, I’ve gained a broader appreciation of the multiple challenges organizations face when trying to get sustainable, reusable knowledge out of projec
PM Basics
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Eh? Scrum Master vs. Project Manager vs. Product Owner? Sound like comparing apples with oranges. However, in real life, project managers lead scrum teams. Scrum Masters do need project management tools and techniques. I’m asked this kind of questions so many times that I decided to create this in-depth article on roles in different project management frameworks.
LiquidPlanner
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Estimation is an invaluable tool for anticipating and managing project uncertainties. Accurate project estimates help identify cost and schedule requirements with relative precision, and reduce the risk of running out of time, resources, and budget during a project. But even with years of experience, project managers struggle with accurate project estimates.
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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