Project Risk Coach
JUNE 24, 2016
You get on the elevator with someone who asks you about your upcoming project. Can you clearly describe your project in 60 seconds? Photo courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva). Perhaps you are on the way out of a meeting with senior leaders when a Vice President asks you about your project. She says, “I only have a minute, but could you give me a brief summary of the project?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 26, 2016
This is a guest contribution by Patrick Mayfield, non-executive director of pearcemayfield. It is always going to be a challenge when we come across people who we regard as difficult to deal with in our business and we are very likely to face this at some point. In fact in today’s business environment, there’s probably a more significant challenge of having to face this dilemma than ever before.
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Musings on Project Management
JUNE 29, 2016
The first question of risk management -- in my opinion of course: Where does the slack go? And, that's the first question because: No matter the nature, cost, impact, probability etc of the risk, you can't manage any of these without slack, ie "buffer" or "white space". "No slack" is akin to "hope is not a plan" Usually, the first parameter to be abused is the slack Usually, the first abuse.
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 17, 2016
‘If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words’ Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. The would be ‘lazy’ project manager will think very, very carefully about what they need to communicate and how they need to communicate it and why they are communicating what they are communicating. The general guidance is that some 70-80% of a project manager’s time will be spent in communicating.
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Kiron Bondale
JUNE 12, 2016
When a golf professional hits a monster drive it looks very impressive and draws “ Oohs !” and “ Aahs !” from the crowd. However golf pros know that excellence at the short game, especially putting, is what wins tournaments. For those of us who don’t make our livings on the links, when we visit a driving range, it is much more entertaining to pull out our long clubs and hit a bucket of balls than it is to put in the time to practice chipping or putting even though w
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Project Risk Coach
JUNE 17, 2016
Mark Langley, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), penned a great article entitled Using Project Management to Reduce Risk. While the article was written for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), it’s a message that all leaders should read. Indeed, “high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do.” Image courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva).
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 29, 2016
General Information. Name: BusiBI Project Manager 2016. Vendor: BusiBI. Hosting options: iPad. Cost and plans: £3.99 in the UK iTunes store for a standalone version. Monthly or annual credit packs available to buy in-app. It’s £7.99 to add a team member to your projects for collaboration for a year. Languages: English, German, Spanish, Japanese. Currency: All of them, but the look of the gigantic picklist, but you can only choose one.
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 2, 2016
If you follow this blog you've read several references to the project balance sheet. So, is this about accounting? Yes, and no: Yes, it's about a double entry tool to keep track of "mine" and "yours", but no, it's not the accountant's tool used in your father's accounting office. Take a look at this figure: What have we got here? First, the business and the project; but.
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 10, 2016
Posted in Tools. If you’ve got an Office 365 subscription, and in the market for a project management tool, you’re in luck. Microsoft has launched its Office 365 tool, Planner. Aside from Project and SharePoint, Microsoft had been conspicuously absent from task management and collaboration tools. Borrowing features and functionality heavily from the likes of Trello, Asana, Basecamp and Wrike, Office 365 Planner is a tool for teams to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share
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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
JUNE 5, 2016
When staffing projects, many organizations follow restaurant prix fixe models – give me one team member from column A, two from column B and so on. Allocation decisions for such projects are usually made through a combination of degree of fit for requirements with a healthy dash of politics thrown in. Anyone who disagrees with my inclusion of the latter has never managed a project where the quality of their relationship with people managers was a key influencer over the calibre of the team
The Lazy Project Manager
JUNE 10, 2016
‘Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.’ Robert Heinlein. During my time leading a number of PMOs across different organisations one thing was common across all of the project managers that worked under the PMO, and that was they generally could be placed in to two groups.
Project Risk Coach
JUNE 10, 2016
Have you ever encountered conflicting ideas when facilitating change within a department, business unit, or across an organization? Do you often see resistance to your change efforts? Have you ever started down a path that made perfectly good sense to you but seemed crazy to others? Image courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Perhaps you’ve recently started a program.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 13, 2016
Tomorrow the UK goes to the polls to vote on whether we should leave the European Union. If the country votes for Brexit, the implications for British business are huge. The implications for the country overall are massive too, but a lot has been written about that already and I’m not in a position to add anything to the debate. I’ll be voting in the morning.
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Musings on Project Management
JUNE 23, 2016
In 1711 Abraham De Moivre came up with the mathematical definition of risk as: The Risk of losing any sum is the reverse of Expectation; and the true measure of it is, the product of the Sum adventured multiplied by the Probability of the Loss. Abraham de Moivre, De Mensura Sortis, 1711 in the Ph. Trans. of the Royal Society I copied this quote from a well argued posting by Matthew.
Moira Alexander
JUNE 13, 2016
In most companies, individual departments or teams believe they hold the key to understanding customer needs more than other areas of the business. But the reality is that different departments simply have a different view into customer expectations and none has an all-encompassing view. CRM teams and EPMO/PMOs are not immune to this misconception. When you look at the two roles, both ultimately focus on customer/stakeholder satisfaction and utilize similar or comparable mechanisms to accomplish
LiquidPlanner
JUNE 22, 2016
When you select a great new piece of software for your team, it’s an exciting time. You’re anticipating a better way of working and all the long-awaited benefits. “Yeah, it’s here!” (“But now we have to learn to use it, gulp.”) When it comes to the implementation and rollout process, things can get tricky. As a Customer Success guru, I’ve seen some exceptional implementations of LiquidPlanner over the past six years.
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 24, 2016
Posted in The PM life. The post When you spend months planning a project with a client only for them to cancel it at the last minute appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Project Risk Coach
JUNE 4, 2016
Got any new team members? Tom replaced Bill as a developer at the midpoint of a software development project for an insurance company. Sheila, the project manager, had her hands full with multiple projects and hoped that Bill had provided Tom with the necessary information to hit the ground running. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock. At Tom’s first project meeting, he was rubbing the back of his neck, twisting his watch, and bouncing a foot.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 10, 2016
Managing lots of projects at the same time is tough. Here’s how 6 project managers stay on top of multiple projects – and keep their sanity. It was fun to talk to them to find out more about their tactics – the tip from Christine about diary management is definitely going to change the way I plan my week. Helen Curel. Get organised, if you’ve got a good system for keeping all your project documentation in one place, use it and block out time either at the end or the beginning of each week to giv
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 8, 2016
John P. Kotter is a change guy. I've been going through his 1996 classic "Leading Change" Here's my take: it's a good book, but a little long on the narrative since the essentials are right up front: 8 leadership steps towards change management.
Kiron Bondale
JUNE 19, 2016
I’ve previously written about the importance of discussing and harvesting lessons regularly over the life of a project and how important it is for someone to be reviewing, distilling and sharing them. I’ve also recommended that incorporating lessons into standard practices is better than just consolidating them into a repository, no matter how easy it might be to search that knowledge base.
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LiquidPlanner
JUNE 20, 2016
Does your team groan when you they hear the words “track time”? Is it an activity that everyone on your team tends to duck and dodge and you’re on a repeat loop every week reminding people do fill in their time sheets? It’s no secret that there’s a lot of resistance around tracking time among team members, and for a variety of reasons. But what happens when you’re managing a team who needs continual reminders?
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 2, 2016
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Project Risk Coach
JUNE 14, 2016
You are walking down the hall at work and you see someone with a gun. How should you respond? If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Let’s first define active shooter. The United States Department of Homeland Security defines active shooter as “an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms(s) and there is no pattern or method to their selectio
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 6, 2016
This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. This one is about ensuring everyone buys into the project schedule. The One-Man Plan: A Story. Hans had spent a lot of time working on his project plan. He knew what needed to be done and how long everything would take. Requirements gathering, that would take a couple of days, right?
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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