ProjectManager.com
JULY 11, 2017
Project management is not an easy job. In fact, it’s several not-easy jobs, including the initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing of a project. Even more difficult, that project is delegated to a team of your choosing, given specific goals to achieve over a defined timeline for a determined budget. And you have to do all that successfully.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JULY 12, 2017
In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. Pam has amazing energy and is the kind of person who grabs every opportunity.
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Project Risk Coach
JULY 10, 2017
Discover the Power of Project Procurement Management As we initiate our projects, we may find that our organization lacks the skills and knowledge to create the project deliverables and meet the project objectives. In other cases, we may need products outside of our organization. Project managers use procurement management to secure these needed products and services.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 11, 2017
Normal 0. false false false. EN-US X-NONE X-NONE. Doing a hybrid agile-traditional project? Many do; perhaps [gasp!] most real projects are hybrids. You can't really do Agile all the time everywhere on everything. And, so, inevitably, we.
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Kiron Bondale
JULY 10, 2017
When documents are used to track project information, a common approach is to create a consolidated workbook in MS Excel for tracking risks, actions, issues and decisions. This is usually referred to as a RAID log. The benefit of this approach beyond having the information in a convenient, centralized location is that there are logical relationships between these disparate elements which can be easily reflected if they are consolidated.
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Inloox
JULY 11, 2017
Reasons for the widening gap The PMI has shown in his latest Pulse of the Profession Report that the project management maturity of organizations is increasing. Not only are they getting better at implementing PM processes and methods, they are also finally seeing the fruits of their labor. IT project success rates are finally improving after years of continual decline.
Ganttic
JULY 11, 2017
Whether we want to believe it or not, men and women have always been viewed as two different sets of people. And of course, there are stereotypes that go with the sets. Women are supposed to like pink, and men blue. Women are supposed to take care of the children, men are supposed to bring home the bacon. Women are supposed to be emotional, men should never even shed a tear.
Project-Management.pm
JULY 8, 2017
An online master of project management is one of the best investments one has in order to advance his or her certification levels or acquire one. Online education has been around for decades, catering to distance learning and for those who do not have access to extra education due to their location and schedule. Organizations need project managers who can juggle different operations and processes, all the while achieving the end result of the projects.
The Digital Project Manager
JULY 13, 2017
In this episode, Ben Aston chats with Natalie Semczuk about project management hacks, diving into the details of automation you can setup, tools you can use, techniques you can apply and philosophies to adopt that'll make your DPM life a whole lot easier. The post DPM Podcast: Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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
JULY 13, 2017
Picture an avid outdoor enthusiast. It’s likely you’re thinking of flannel, heavy boots, backpacks stuffed to the brim, and an SUV with a giant roof rack. With their sense of adventure, they’re prepared for anything and are experts at planning ahead. While the worlds may feel completely separate from one another, project managers and business leaders can learn a great deal from the adventure experts; our PMs for the outdoors.
Function Point
JULY 12, 2017
In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.
Project-Management.pm
JULY 12, 2017
Both the market and business industry are putting more pressure on organizations in terms of visibility and improvement. Organizations are struggling to make relevant and maintain the reputation that they have been safeguarding for the past years. It’s a jungle out there and everyone is bent on surviving. Putting more work for company growth isn’t always that favorable.
Growing Agile
JULY 11, 2017
We often talk about feedback, it is a crucial aspect of agile. Feedback on our behaviour as team mates, feedback on our product by users, feedback on our approach as leaders. Yet so often when we hear people give feedback or we get feedback ourselves we find people are too polite to be honest, and this ends up with feedback like: “It was great” and “There’s nothing you need to improve” This might make our ego’s feel great but it doesn’t actually help us
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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.
TimeCamp
JULY 13, 2017
Task management is one of the key issues disconcerting those who wish to manage their business successfully, now and in the future. What should be done in the first instance, who ought to work on it and so on − those questions are just a few examples of tasks that one has to handle whether he likes it or not. A perfect solution to the question how to efficiently organize a project and, consequently, mitigate the risk of its failure is the Task Planning Software.
Function Point
JULY 12, 2017
In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.
Project-Management.pm
JULY 11, 2017
Effective and competent project managers have already shown what they are made of even before they do their roles and responsibilities. In this case, the first stage in determining if an individual is qualified to do the job is through an interview. And for project managers , it’s an opportunity to showcase what they got. Job interviews are meant to stimulate an applicant’s skill set, expertise, knowledge, as well as a reaction to particular questions that can be often nerve-wracking.
Herding Cats
JULY 9, 2017
Today the Rally chart reappeared. This chart is from " The Impact of Agile Quantified.". This chart shows a performance index. But, a VERY critical caveat of the report is. The findings in this document are extracted by looking for correlations between decisions or behaviors (keeping teams stable, setting your team sizes to between five and nine, keeping your work in process— WiP—low, etc.) and outcomes as measured by the dimensions of the SDPI.
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Project Insight
JULY 10, 2017
Projects come in many shapes and sizes. Combining budget amount, scope, number of participants, subject area, degree of complexity and other attributes there are hundreds of variations. Yet, a project is a project. It requires initiation, pla.
ExamsPM
JULY 10, 2017
Procurement is the formal processes many organizations follow obtain goods and services. Project Procurement Management is the process of selecting, monitoring and closing vendor contracts. In this PMP study guide, we will cover the 4 processes with the Procurement Knowledge Area. They are: Plan Procurement Management. Conduct Procurement. Control Procurement.
Avaza
JULY 12, 2017
Over the last few years, the Avaza team has been helping you transform and streamline your business operations. We’ve taken another step to help you better manage your people resources, visualize team availability and deliver successful projects by launching Project Resource Scheduling. As you plan your projects, you will now be able to answer questions like this more accurately: Who is working on what, and when?
Herding Cats
JULY 13, 2017
There are several studies on how software development can be improved by applying various process. Some studies have very large data sets, with analysis of each process and the differences between the processes. Other studies have small data sets, no error bands on the data, and no real statistical analysis of this raw data. Here's a checklist for the steps needed to produce a credible answer to - Is there any difference between one process or another process for improving the outcomes of a pro
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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.
Wrike
JULY 13, 2017
Processing, prioritizing, and tracking incoming work requests takes a lot of effort, especially when they’re coming at you from so many channels: emails, meetings, instant messages, informal conversations, and more. Managing this deluge of requests is time-consuming, unwieldy, and can be difficult to sustain as your company scales. . These best practices will help you bring order to the chaos of incoming work so you can spend more time on important projects and less time trying to decide what yo
Entry
JULY 11, 2017
The post How to Measure Project Management Success appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.
Musings on Project Management
JULY 14, 2017
35% of the US GDP depends on quantum physics Brian Greene Theoretical Physicist (TV Interview with Charlie Rose) Talk about a case for science at the most inquisitive level! There you have it. Quantum Physics wasn't really discovered until about 1920. Now, about 100 years later, it runs the world? Holly cow! I wonder how the business case and backlog looked for that project?
Herding Cats
JULY 11, 2017
To continue the previous Trouble with Charts post, here's a quick overview of what was missing from the CA report. The chart below is from Larry MacCherone's presentation titled The Impact of Agile Quantified Follow Larry's link back for other presentations on this topic. I picked a sample to show how a point value is of little help when it is produced from a collection - in this case, 10's or 1,000's of samples - without the variance bands for sample space.
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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