Project Risk Coach
MAY 20, 2016
Many project managers feel overwhelmed with emails, phone calls, and meetings. They often work overtime, but few feel as though they are making progress. Although we are all given the same amount of time each day, some project managers are able to produce greater value for their organizations. Some are more engaged. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva).
Moira Alexander
MAY 18, 2016
Whether internal or external, successfully meeting client deliverables is a primary goal behind projects. Deliverables may be different for each project depending on industry, nature of the project, project size, company strategy and a host of other variables. That said, there are multiple shared factors that can easily compromise these deliverables and ultimately client satisfaction.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 18, 2016
Yey! I love this time each month when I get to interview a fantastic woman doing something amazing in the world of project management. Today it’s the turn of Christine Unterhitzenberger, a practitioner-turned-academic who is researching the social dynamics of project teams and how fairness affects project success. Let’s get started… Christine, how did you get into project management?
Musings on Project Management
MAY 17, 2016
Looking to hone your people skills and tie into SCRUM? Here's a seminar -- free even you are not a member -- that is more or less on the theme: "SCRUM is about people". Read in the library at Square Peg Consulting about these books I've written Buy them at any online book retailer!
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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.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 15, 2016
We start our projects with a small core team but as we proceed further down the rabbit hole we add team members to support planning and delivery activities. Then as work streams get completed, team size shrinks until we reach project closure where we are back to the original core team. On large, multi-phase projects, team expansion and contraction occurs frequently but even with much smaller projects, it is common to have team members exit before the project itself is completed.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 16, 2016
Do you struggle to get people on your team to make decisions? I have the perfect solution for you. Edoardo Binda Zane’s book, Effective Decision-Making is what you need to get your team focused. It’s a collection of tools for making better business decisions. Forget the academic and complicated techniques that you might have read about already – these are practical suggestions that work.
Ron Rosenhead
MAY 19, 2016
It has been an interesting few months working with clients and listening to some of the issues course participants face: My sponsor takes a too hands on/off approach and I find it difficult to deal with. I have a team member who despite saying they will deliver simply does not. No matter what I do they always fail to deliver and this is becoming concerning and demotivating for the team.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 19, 2016
OMG, we did it again! We’re thrilled to announce that LiquidPlanner won TWO SIIA Software CODiE Awards this week. For the second year in a row, we won the CODiE for Best Project Management Solution , and yesterday added a new award to the trophy shelf: the CODiE for Best Project Management Mobile Application. What it means to win a CODiE. This is big news and we’re excited for a number of reasons.
Fix my Project Chaos
MAY 15, 2016
Leap into a more powerful and purposeful future using personal development tools In this podcast, I speak with Founder and CEO of Break The Frame, expert change management professional Alli Polin who shares her take on leadership and how to make the leap into a more powerful and purposeful future using personal development tools. Alli is […]. The post Podcast 85 – Five Myths About Personal Development Everyone Should Know with Alli Polin appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.
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
Herding Cats
MAY 15, 2016
A primary learning process is research. This process is part of all science, engineering, management processes. Here's a starting point for learning how to estimate in the presence of uncertainty on agile projects. This is the start of a literature search. Anyone making suggestions about making decisions in the presence uncertainty on agile project can start here for establishing the basis of any arguments of how and why that suggestion (conjecture possibly) is based on some set of principles.
Project Management Hacks
MAY 20, 2016
Image Credit: stevepb (Pixabay.com). Once upon a time, email was a fun treat. Does anyone remember the 1998 movie “You’ve Got Mail”? Each arrival was greeted with the phrase “ you’ve got mail !” It was an event. That world is gone for most of us. In most workplaces, email is a powerful tool for communication. Email is also a source of professional pain and overwhelm.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 17, 2016
At a recent conference, I was asked, “Why do project managers hate schedules?”. I had to think about this for a while because I don’t think project managers hate schedules. I think what project managers don’t like is the administrative work required to maintain it. A detailed and well thought out project schedule is my #1 tool to use when managing a project.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 19, 2016
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Jones Loflin, time management speaker offers a fresh approach to dealing with work-life balance. More than once, I’ve let things get out of order in my life. I get busy with work and outside activities. I fail to take care of myself. Here’s my story of when things were out of control and what I did to get things back in order.
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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.
Moira Alexander
MAY 17, 2016
Key performance indicators (KPI) serve an essential role as a key measure of how effectively a project has performed in relation to identified, required and agreed-upon strategic objectives. Without KPIs, determining the success of projects and project activities is a guessing game, with no way to quantify goal attainment. The types of KPIs vary, depending on critical success factors (CSF) like industry, product or service, and stakeholder business and operational strategies.
The Tao of Project Management
MAY 20, 2016
So having established that our project managers have the basic ability to manage projects, and planned any development they need, the next step is to consider the needs of the organisation itself. Project Focus Business today needs to be agile and able to change and adapt quickly, if not it will fail. Because of this the business environment today is becoming more and more project driven, which means the business must have a project focus.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 20, 2016
Every week we share some of the interesting stories we’ve read, in the hopes of making your day a little bit more insightful. This week we’re focusing on productivity, creativity, and how saying no to work (or projects) can actually lead to more work. Happy reading! “ Find, Vet and Close the Best Product Managers ,” from Firstround.com. “ How to Be Agile in Six Steps, ” from AFRweek.com. “ An Extreme Method for Improving Your Habits ,” by Mikael Cho, Lifehacker.com. “ How Email is Killing Your C
Stepping Into Project Management
MAY 16, 2016
Stop Waiting - It’s never going to be perfect time for anything. So, stop waiting to ask for a raise, to try a new project, a blog, a hobby, launch of a new idea. Start it today and the thrill and positivity of starting something new to bring in the momentum you have been waiting Create Routines - start creating routines that allow you to be positive or creative.
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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.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 20, 2016
Here’s my video diary of PMI EMEA Global Congress in Barcelona. It’s a compliation of my Periscope broadcasts, so if you didn’t catch them live you can see my impressions of the conference here. You'll also like: Video Diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 2 This is the video diary from Day 2 at PMI’s Global Congress EMEA in Dublin.
Zen Project Management
MAY 16, 2016
By LibertyGroup25 (Own work) Henry Ford pioneered many of the ideas that are now commonplace in business, including ideas used in Design Thinking. He has been quoted as saying "If you ask people what they want, it would be a faster horse." This hits on the design thinking principle of divergence. You need to understand what problem you are solving before coming up with a solution.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 14, 2016
Glen Alleman recently quoted Kennedy: For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie ― deliberate, contrived, and dishonest ― but the myth ― persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ― John F.
PM by PM
MAY 16, 2016
Critical Path Analysis Using 0 and 1 Method I am a software engineer by education. I learned project management while managing software projects. I got introduced to MS Project and Critical Path Analysis in year 1997. In fact, I learned about Critical Path while using MS Project. MS Project, like many other scheduling tools, performs […]. The post 2 ways to Perform Critical Path Analysis appeared first on PM-by-PM.
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This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.
TeamGantt
MAY 15, 2016
Process Street's Benjamin Brendall shares four simple ways to boost team productivity and camaraderie, as if you were working at an office.
Function Point
MAY 19, 2016
Clients can be great to work with. They challenge you creatively and inspire you to innovate. There can also be times when they ask you to take on an additional project with a tight timeline or change the scope past the cutoff date. When this happens, here are some strategies to say ‘no’. 1. Be Polite. “In our sign-off meeting, we agreed upon the scope of the project.
Stepping Into Project Management
MAY 19, 2016
SIPM Connect is the Community of Project Managers that allows the Newbies and the Experts to interact. Oh and it’s free. 3 top benefits of being a mentor in SIPM Connect: 1. Y ou get to share your experience with someone - the greatest of satisfaction is to help someone our and see them grow. It makes you a better person and professional and it add a boost of positivity in your life.
Herding Cats
MAY 19, 2016
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. — Bruce Lee. Any new innovative or revolutionary suggestion in the software development world, needs to be anchored on the established principles of how to manage the spend of other people's money. If it's your own money, spend as you please - no one cares.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
70% of most digital transformation projects fail. Learn how you can quickly improve that success rate. To be successful, digital transformation involves the strategic application of digitalization to improve a business’ entire system of production, procurement, sales, operations, human resources, and financial management. In short, to basically transform the way a company makes money and delivers value to customers.
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