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Changing the Face of PM Training

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my APMP course recently and there were a bemusing amount of training providers to choose from. Go for something like PMP® or PRINCE2 and the choice is even greater. So how do you pick the right course for you? Craig Kilford has the answer. Craig has set up a review website for project management training and there’s a philanthropic initiative on the side as incentive to get people to write reviews.

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Get Ahead of Your Risks

Project Risk Coach

How to use key risk indicators Which would you prefer? To respond to risks after they occur or to see the risks early and take steps to prevent or reduce your risks? I’ll take the latter, thank you! Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. Project managers can get ahead of their risks by thinking differently. Rather than focusing on past performance only, consider how you can anticipate when future threats and opportunities may occur.

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How to spot signs your project is about to fail

Moira Alexander

Project management has many facets and anyone of them could derail even the best-laid plans. Recognizing the signs of an impending disaster can give a project manager the "heads up" before it happens. To help you spot the telltale signs, here are some of the more common signs grouped into three key categories. 1. High-level objectives. Missing strategic tie-in: Difficulty easily and clearly tie the project purpose and goals back to company-wide objectives is one of the biggest signals that proje

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Bringing a whole new meaning to ‘Business Casual’

The Lazy Project Manager

The other day a work colleague made the following observation to me ‘You bring a whole new meaning to business casual’ was what they actually said, and they most certainly were not referring to the clothes I was wearing at that particular time. Let’s start with what exactly is ‘business casual’ in the general meaning of the phrase: noun: business casual – relating to or denoting a style of clothing that is less formal than traditional business wear, but is still intended to give a pr

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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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True agility requires ruthless prioritization

Kiron Bondale

Primary roles on agile delivery teams are expected to be fully dedicated to the one project or product that they are supporting. Depending on the scope and context of a project, certain specialized roles such as database administrators might support delivery activities during specific iterations, the core analysts, developers, designers and testers need to focus on that one project or product to avoid incurring the velocity and quality-impacting fruits of multitasking.

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Tool review: Admation

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in General. Project management tools often make the mistake of trying to be everything, to everyone. They create masses of functionality without a real vision of workflow and how the tool might be used by ad agencies and their clients to deliver projects. They start loading in masses of functionality for every type of agency and work but without any real focus.

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How to Lead Your Team Through a Transition

LiquidPlanner

If you’ve ever tried to be a change agent at work, you know the kind of resistance you’re up against. You could be recommending a new work process or project management tool that will greatly improve the business—and you’ll champion it—and people will suddenly get very busy. Asking a team to give up a work process they’re used to—even if it’s highly flawed—and learn something new can feel overwhelming for teams that already have a lot to do.

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Is Project Planning The Same It Was 20 Years Ago?

Ganttic

A lot of literature on project management has been focusing on the importance of scheduling to make a project to succeed. You probably already know that it's not all there is to it. Don't get us wrong, being a resource planning software, we think it's really important to schedule. And according to an old but still relevant article by Belassi and Tukel, it was important 20 years ago, too.

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The Myth That Research Can't Be Managed

Herding Cats

There is a popular myth that. some software development projects are research and aren't subject to normal business management processes. I'm here to tell you this ain't true. I've managed several pure and applied research projects in my life, including my graduate research. This experience includes bio-pharma, engineering development, and physics research projects - all software intensive.

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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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Creative problem-solving with design thinking frameworks

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in General Tools. [link]. Frameworks alone don’t provide all the answers but they can be incredibly useful for forming unexpected connections. Here’s a curated list of some of the best design thinking frameworks out there – a gallery of best practices for leading workshops, brainstorms, and general strategies for solving creative problems.

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What I Learned About Project Management From A Failed Volunteer Project

Project Management Hacks

Image Credit: Pixabay.com. I like to start projects. But I don’t always finish them. Let me tell you a story about what I learned from a failed project. For several years, I have been a volunteer with various university alumni associations. I’ve created budgets. I’ve ran events like organizing a dinner to connect alumni and students interested in the financial industry.

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This is How I work- Lindsay Scott

Stepping Into Project Management

Lindsay Scott is a Director at Arras People , the programme and project management recruitment specialist in the UK. She’s also founder of the PMO Flashmob and PMO Conference. She is PMI’s PM Network career columnist and writes for TwentyEighty Strategy Execution and Project Challenge. Lindsay is also Co-Editor of the Handbook of People in Project Management.

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

This is a book about my favorite subject - the uncertainty in the normal world. As readers of this blog know, managing in the presence of uncertainty is how adults manage projects. This is called Risk Management. And as always in order to make decisions in the presence of the uncertainties that create risk, we need to make estimates. No estimates?

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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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Negotiating with a liar

Musings on Project Management

Leslie K. John has an essay in the July-August 2016 Harvard Business Review entitled "How to negotiate with a liar" Among other things, he notes that most of us can only identify a lie about one time in two; and, further: studies show most people tell some sort of a lie about once or twice a day. Good grief. With those statistics, it's a wonder we ever know if we're getting the straight.

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5 More Inspirational Quotes for Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some more of the quotes that have inspired me recently. I am loving using iMovie! I’m constantly looking out for things to video just so I can use it. You'll also like: Some Inspirational Quotes for Managers Some inspirational quotes to help you get motivated today! 10 Inspirational Women in Project Management Last year at the PMI Global Congress in Dallas, Peter Taylor gave a presentation celebrating project management.

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Inner Space

The Tao of Project Management

The start of the new rugby season is always exciting and for Topsham RFC it is even more so as we have been promoted to the Cornwall and Devon league (the highest we have ever reached). Watching the two pre-season friendlies against Exmouth RFC and Sidmouth RFC (both in higher leagues than us) and seeing the new coach (Chris Whitehead, former Exeter Chiefs hooker) and players starting to work together as a team was great.

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What is the Ideal Team Size to Maximize Productivity? | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

A lot of hiring managers try to lock down the perfect size for a team. Consider these factors to find the sweet spot between productivity and cost savings.

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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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Draw it -- then write it

Musings on Project Management

A great technique for writing proposals, papers, or books -- as I do a lot -- is to storyboard the ideas. My favorite expression: "If you can't draw it, you can't write it!" Here's Einstein on the same idea: "I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes and I may try to express it in words afterwards" If you're not a storyboard person, or just want some great ideas about.

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Festival of the PMO – The Rise and Fall of PMOs

Fix my Project Chaos

Another fabulous guest blog from Vicki Daniel – National Practice Manager – Projects, Integral Technology about the rise and fall of the PMO So a few months back, I was told that in the Australian context, PMO’s last on average for three years before they are disbanded or re-engineered into something that is not really […]. The post Festival of the PMO – The Rise and Fall of PMOs appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Happy Weekend

Stepping Into Project Management

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APMP: Reflections On The Course

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my APMP exam recently, at the culmination of five days of study. It was quite an effort – it has actually been a while since I’ve been out of the workplace to do a course that lasted that long (or to do any formal training, if I think about it). It was a great excuse to focus on the basics and to take a break from the busyness that is a normal working week.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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.

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The Big Shift: How LiquidPlanner Democratized Project Management

LiquidPlanner

Project management software has a difficult history. Traditional tools have been inflexible, hard to use, time-consuming and often unreliable. LiquidPlanner set out to change this from inception. One of the ways we did this was to include a collaboration platform in our project management solution—one that every member of the team could contribute to and access.