Project Risk Coach
MAY 22, 2017
As a project manager, you will sometimes be asked to make presentations to a board, to a senior leader team, an external vendor, or to your organization. Here are opportunities to help your stakeholders understand your projects. With every presentation, you can try new things and learn to improve your presentations. Improve Your Presentations. 1. Plan your presentations.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 22, 2017
This article by Jaime Capitel of ITM Platform reviews 5 key considerations and knowledge areas under which the main criteria for managing a project portfolio can be grouped. You'll also like: Software review: Project Portfolio Office General information Name: Project Portfolio Office Vendor: Project Portfolio Office Hosting options: Web hosted only Cost and plans: Up to 10 users for $49 (£32).
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Project Bliss
MAY 24, 2017
Agile is a popular term these days, and you likely hear it a lot. But what is it and what’s the difference between agile vs waterfall methodology? If you feel left behind and want to catch up fast, this post is for you. By the end, you’ll have a high-level understanding of each and how work is done in agile vs waterfall. In this post I’ll do the following for you: Explain Agile.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 21, 2017
When designing project delivery methodologies, we are faced with the decision of whether information should be housed in standalone documents or in online repositories. While there are those who view this as a binary choice, I would advocate a hybrid approach. Assuming we have or can procure or build underlying tooling support we can then choose to host some information centrally and utilize standalone documents for the rest.
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Musings on Project Management
MAY 26, 2017
I've never been too keen on the typical book answer to "what is project management?" It seems it misses a more realistic statement of properties. So, I'm all about narrative, backlog, WIP etc, whereas the conventional definition is about initiating, executing, conrolling, etc. I made the comparison in this table. You can judge for yourself.
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The Digital Project Manager
MAY 25, 2017
Before you start looking for a Microsoft Project Alternative, did you know there’s actually a way to open and read Microsoft Project.mpp files without. The post Microsoft Project Viewer for Cost-Savvy Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Project-Management.pm
MAY 25, 2017
New project managers are basically fledglings of the organization: they’re still learning the trade and are still a little lost in keeping up with their tasks. If you are a new project manager, you must definitely learn how to survive in the business industry. How To Survive Your First Week As A New Project Manager ? Besides the usual grind of your work that will eventually pile up your desk and schedule, there are people that you need to deal with and a team to manage ; easy?
Inloox
MAY 24, 2017
The last part of our PMO blog series will try and answer this question. Implementing ‘new’ agile methods such as Scrum or Kanban will have a significant impact on the PMO, as it’s the project management center of the organization. So it is important that the PMO reacts to these new developments in project management as soon as possible. Agile is the trend “Agile” is one of the biggest buzzwords in project management and other industries at the moment.
Digite
MAY 26, 2017
The concept of Agile Release Train is central to understanding the constructs of SAFe and to implement them. So, what is an ART? Is it a set of teams working in tandem with each other following a common release calendar and Sprint timeline? Or is it a set of features scheduled for release at regular durations to continuously deliver the anticipated business value?
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 25, 2017
This story is part of our Industry 4.0 series, which looks at the new technologies, techniques, and trends that are pushing manufacturers toward a new level of optimization and productivity. There’s a new wave of robots on the horizon. They’re smarter, safer, and cheaper than earlier models. And, they’re going to have a major impact on manufacturing for years to come.
Project-Management.pm
MAY 23, 2017
Doing the same thing and encountering the same problem can take its toll in a project and the organization as a whole. They say the repetitive tasks can be quite boring and companies are doing the best they can to come up with innovative ideas to bring not only value and new competitive advantages but a fresh perspective as well. However, even with controlled projects coming and going, organizations still experience the same problem.
Green Project Management
MAY 23, 2017
The Rise of Sustainability (Non-Financial) Reporting I am often asked what I do for a living. When I explain that I work in sustainability I usually get an “oh, ok.” followed by a “what does that mean?” Therein lies the challenge. Sustainability is a broad topic. For us at GPM, we address global environmental, economic, and […].
Brett Harned
MAY 24, 2017
PMs are always on the lookout for milestones, and we have a big one coming up at the Bureau of Digital. This October, the Digital PM Summit turns five this October 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we are ready to celebrate everything the Digital PM Summit is about: our growing community. Back in 2012, when planning the first Digital PM Summit, we didn’t know who our attendees would be, and where (or if) they’d travel for this new conference.
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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.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 23, 2017
Manufacturing is essentially a series of sequential steps in a longer process. Because each step must be completed before moving onto the next, even the smallest delay can have a significant impact on delivery. That’s why proper planning, scheduling, and risk management are so important. We recently asked more than 100 manufacturing executives, engineers, and project managers about their day-to-day project management practices and how these play a role in their work and businesses.
Celoxis
MAY 23, 2017
Looking for project management inspiration? You don’t need to go too far to find it. The greatest project manager is the one who raised you and your siblings, stood rock steady beside your father, made the house a home and did all this while building a successful career. MOM! In this blog, I try to draw the parallel between motherhood and project management.
Boost by Brightpod
MAY 24, 2017
This week we feature, Danny Garcia, Marketing Operations Manager at Stacklist. Stacklist is a curated guide to the best tools for growth, featuring tools use.
Resource Guru
MAY 24, 2017
Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. In order to onboard my team, I linked everyone to the project brief, added them to the project task board, and held a hasty all-hands meeting imparting the urgency of the deadline and asking everyone to let me know if they had questions after they read through the project docs.
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Herding Cats
MAY 24, 2017
A popular phrase in some agile areas is X is the Smell of Dysfunction. Estimates, governance, planning, architecture, financial forecasting - pick you poison. One naive response to this smell of dysfunction is to conjecture a solution with no evidence that the problem OR the solution have any principles to be based on. . Let's not do X and the smell will be removed is a common approach.
ActiveCollab
MAY 23, 2017
Waterfall is a project management approach where a project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers. You make a big plan upfront and then execute in a linear fashion, hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan. When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 20, 2017
Simplicity requires a lot of complexity Jack Dorsey Founder, Square, Inc Can you repeat that? Making it simple for the user/customer/beneficiary often requires a lot of 'backstage' complexity. Ask any system engineer. . Project managers beware! Often, the sponsor's vision is simplicity itself. And, the sponsor makes resource commitments on their idea of value.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 24, 2017
The world of project management education doesn’t stand still. It feels to me like the changes that happen are evolutionary rather than transformative, but it’s still good to see the methods and standards continue to develop. I’m not actually sure what a transformative update would look like – evolutionary is probably the only way to Click for more.
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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.
Herding Cats
MAY 20, 2017
If we are to make logical decisions and choices in product and systems development, we need to have criteria to measure the value or relative importance of aspects of alternative proposals. This is an essential pre‒requisite for part of trade studies. Both the client (customer, user) and the engineer have such measures, and these are related. Measures of Effectiveness (MoE) represent the customer view, usually annotated and of qualitative nature.
ActiveCollab
MAY 23, 2017
When you take traditional project management and apply it to software development, you get Waterfall. As such, no one invented waterfall - instead, we gave it name once we realised that there are others ways to manage projects. The defining characteristic of waterfall projects is that you make a big plan upfront and then execute in linear fashion hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 26, 2017
Everyone has their own idea of leadership Consequently, there's no one idea that is all encompassing There is no "master definition", though you can certainly look it up in the dictionary. Here's one that struck me as capturing the "soft power" of leadership: "A leader’s authority comes from the [constituents'] belief in his [or her] right and ability to rule, in the willingness of.
Brightwork
MAY 26, 2017
Office 365 has some of the best team collaboration options on the market today. But as you start to use these tools more and more (you can connect Office 365 and BrightWork by the way!), it can be hard to wrap your head around the various collaborative options available. You could use Teams, Planner, SharePoint, or other some combination of apps and tools!
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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