Project Risk Coach
MAY 24, 2022
Project managers are not just managers. They’re leaders. Project managers shape and influence their project culture for good or bad. Tolerance can be a great trait. However, project managers must be deliberate in what we will tolerate and what we will not tolerate. Project managers must refuse to tolerate things that cause disorder, degradation, and uncertainty.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 19, 2022
Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) you can use to help you close those gaps, yet it isn’t easy. And you’re not alone in this challenge. Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution.
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Kiron Bondale
MAY 8, 2022
In a project-oriented structure where the project manager has people management responsibilities for their team members, it is expected that an individual’s performance on project work is the primary basis for their formal (HR) evaluation. But in a matrix structure, formal evaluations get carried out by the functional managers to whom the team members report to.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 11, 2022
This is a guest contribution from Monica Georgieff, Agile Coach and Trainer at AgileSherpas. Monica Georgieff. What does this current year have in store for marketers running projects? So far, the outlook for modern business means dealing with the effects of the pandemic on the workplace, uncertainty, crisis, and a volatile global situation. . However, beyond the bad news we’ve had to deal with since the beginning of this year, these changing circumstances have ushered in a different kind
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Inloox
MAY 30, 2022
Content. External influences. Intentional miscalculation. Lack of uniformity in implementation. Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders building, an extension to the House of Representatives in Berlin, Germany’s capital, recently acquired the inglorious title "BER 2.0" The reason for this was the announcement that the building will not be completed before 2024.
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Musings on Project Management
MAY 2, 2022
To state a strategic principle is one thing; to reduce principle to a practical plan is another; but then to get stakeholders to approve and invest in both the principle and the plan is yet another.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 9, 2022
Managing a project is a very challenging, but project evaluation makes it easier. Everything starts with careful planning, which sets the stage for the execution phase where estimations, plans and schedules guide the project team as they complete tasks and deliverables. But it’s not as simple as it sounds, project managers need to keep track of costs, tasks and time during the whole project life cycle to make sure everything goes as planned.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 15, 2022
The PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition defines a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as a “ hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work to be carried out by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables “ While this definition provides a good understanding of what a WBS is, it doesn’t provide guidance on how to organize the structure of a WBS.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 14, 2022
This is a guest article by Joel “Thor” Neeb from Afterburner. In school, we were taught that 99% was an A+, and if you were the recipient of such a grade you would probably be accused of “blowing the curve” on the test for everyone else. Well, in today’s business world, 99% business execution is no longer good enough. In fact, it’s an “F”. Take, for instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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
LiquidPlanner
MAY 24, 2022
If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Using this analogy, projects also have constrained or limited resources to deliver on their commitments. So your imaginary expeditionary team must predict the optimum number of Jerry cans that can be carried and determine if that capacity is enough to execute.
Scrum.org
MAY 19, 2022
Every event in Scrum revolves around the Sprint, which is the heartbeat of Scrum. Each event is important. The Sprint Planning event sets the goal and plan for the Sprint, and the Daily Scrum increases the likelihood of delivering a done increment. The Sprint Review is an opportunity to inspect what the team got done and collaborate on what to do next.
Planio
MAY 9, 2022
After running Planio for more than a decade, I’ve come to learn that managers and leaders often wear blinders. Even if we think we’re being open and understanding, underneath it all, we think we know best. And that’s a problem — especially on remote teams. As Planio moved to a fully remote work setup, I’ve made it my mission to create more psychological safety across the company.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 4, 2022
ProjectManager’s May release provides two new highly-requested features that further enhance the user experience—new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views. These new features make it easy to locate the information most important to you. These new keyboard shortcuts and customized project views are designed to improve software adoption and appeal to all roles within your organization.
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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.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 1, 2022
Whether we are looking at project or operations, understanding what progress has been made with the individual work items owned by your team is part of a normal day or week’s work for most leaders. This information is critical to using tools such as earned value management and information radiators such as burn down or burn up charts. But how you ask for work item updates will influence the quality of the work performance data you receive.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 9, 2022
What is EMV? EMV is a risk analysis tool that helps establish the contingency reserves for your project activities. It’s a statistical technical for quantifying risk. At the end of it, you get a decision tree that summarizes the financial impact of following a course of action. Using expected monetary value allows you to calculate the profit and loss of an activity, whether that’s a whole project, or part of a project, taking into account different scenarios.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 31, 2022
Project management has been a job since the Egyptians mapped out plans for pyramids – and probably before that too. We’ve seen a lot of changes over the past 4,000 years, and the pace of change for our profession shows no sign of stopping. I’ve been around project management most of my professional career, which has given me over 20 years on the job.
Scrum.org
MAY 10, 2022
Co-authored by: Chris Conlin and Mark Wavle. As Scrum.org professionals, we have coached, trained and mentored thousands of Scrum Masters and consulted the organizations they work with, and we’ve consistently encountered similar issues that not only limit Scrum Teams from thriving, but also restrict empiricism from working. This stifles the advantage that Scrum and Agile can bring to teams and organizations. .
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Inloox
MAY 5, 2022
Content: The importance of a well-run complaint management system. The complexity of complaints. Project management as a success factor. Wherever transactions take place between buyers and sellers, complaints are an integral part of everyday life. You have probably had negative experiences with companies yourself and may have addressed a complaint to them.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 3, 2022
Construction estimating is one of the most important parts of landing a construction project. Bid too high and you lose money. Bid too low and you lose the job. It’s also one of the more complicated aspects of all the costs to consider, from equipment to crew and more. That’s why you need construction estimating software to make your forecast as accurate as possible.
Proofhub
MAY 3, 2022
Why Workers Are Disengaged and How Employers Can Win Them Back There is no doubt that employers do everything possible to boost their employee engagement ; whether it is spending countless hours or spending a great amount of money. But, despite all of this, they are not successful in engaging their employees. So, they need to use effective methods to measure dedication instead of using traditional methods.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 25, 2022
Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team. She’s even written the book on it. I caught up with Ruth to find out more about how to motivate teams and why it’s something you should be actively doing. Ruth, let’s start at the beginning. Why do you think motivation on project teams is so important? Because motivation is intrinsic.
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LiquidPlanner
MAY 17, 2022
Most days for project managers can be fairly similar. But each day can also bring a new level of excitement depending on numerous factors. Constraints to your project plan often pop up, creating chaos that keeps you on your toes. And if you like to lead initiatives, there is plenty of room for that when managing complex projects. The daily life of a project manager can vary greatly for many reasons, such as: Project managers may manage competing priorities when there is poor alignment across the
Scrum.org
MAY 20, 2022
Some time ago, we hosted an experience interview with Bas Vodde. Together with Craig Larman, Bas developed Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS). A framework for scaling Scrum to medium to large products while staying true to the original Scrum principles. During this meetup, Bas answered a wide variety of questions raised by our Patreon community. For example: What would be a 2-minute explanation of LeSS?
Online PM Courses
MAY 9, 2022
One of the hardest tasks for Project Managers is Project Estimation: predicting the future, despite the uncertainty. Meet the PERT method. The post Make Your Project Estimation More Reliable, Using the PERT Method appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.
ProjectManager.com
MAY 12, 2022
Producing things isn’t cheap. There are so many costs that occur during production that it can be hard to track them all. These costs are what is called manufacturing overhead. Let’s define manufacturing overhead, look at the manufacturing overhead formula and how to calculate manufacturing overhead. What is Manufacturing Overhead? Manufacturing overhead is part of a company’s manufacturing operations, specifically, the costs incurred outside of those related to the cost of direct materials and
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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