Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 23, 2016
Working out who does what on your project can be a challenge. A RACI chart is a project management tool that helps you do exactly that. At the end of this article there’s a link to download my free roles and responsibilities document template. Scroll to the bottom to get it. In this article I’ll give you everything you need to know about producing a RACI chart for your project.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 22, 2016
"Managing project value" has been a theme I've written a lot about -- I've even written a whole book about it (Did you notice the book cover below?) So, I was fascinated with a series on the Kahn Academy about the value of a start-up. Admittedly, venture start-up is a little off the bore-sight of a project, but not that far off.
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Kiron Bondale
MAY 22, 2016
In large organizations it takes a village to deliver a project. There are multiple internal stakeholders who must collaborate and contribute to generate project success. Many of them will have requirements of their own which they expect will be met. Some of these relate directly to the project’s underlying business rationale whereas others satisfy regulatory or policy compliance needs.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 25, 2016
Posted in General. Risks are ugly little things. They’re the things you never really want to talk about. But if the risks become issues, you’ll be in a bit of bother. So the temptation is just to sweep them under the carpet, never talk about them to the client and hope for the best. That’s a recipe for impending doom. Managing risk (or Management of Risk, sometimes helpfully abbreviated to MoR) is such a big deal that you.
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LiquidPlanner
MAY 26, 2016
Dear Elizabeth: My team manager is on a rampage to have us all log and track time. Part of me understands why but another part of me feels like Big Brother is watching. Is there a better way I can look at tracking my time—like, ways it can work for me? –Resisting in Roswell. Dear Resisting: For a start, Big Brother isn’t watching. Everyone has far too much actual work to do than pour over your timesheets to find out whether you took 30 minutes or 45 minutes as a lunch break.
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Fix my Project Chaos
MAY 22, 2016
What to do when your project team hates each other Good project managers know the most important part of the project is the people. But what do you do when your project team hates each other? In this podcast, I speak with change management consultant Gillian Klette about how to resolve personal conflicts within your […]. The post Podcast 88 – HELP!
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 27, 2016
Posted in General. There’s no doubt that co-locating a team is one of the best ways to improve communication and productivity. However, with many agencies using teams that span multiple locations, the benefits of physical co-location are not always possible. So how do you mix the trend for remote working and distributed teams with a collaborative, more agile approach, that really hinges on effective real-time teamwork and how can you achieve that feel-good, co-located feeling in a distrib
LiquidPlanner
MAY 27, 2016
So much has been made about the future of work, from the rise of the 1099 “gig” worker to the employee who works one full-time job and moonlights in another. Not sure either of these things are really new, but the data doesn’t lie. More than 53 million Americans, or about a third of all U.S. workers have a second job. Why? One theory is that as the economy slips, so does labor churn.
Herding Cats
MAY 25, 2016
Uncertainty is all around us. In the project world, uncertanty comes in two forms: Aleatory Uncertainty - the naturally occurring variances due to the underlying statistical processes of the project. These can be schedule variances, cost variances, and technical variances - all driven by a stochastic process with a known or unknown statistical distribution.
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
The Tao of Project Management
MAY 27, 2016
Continuing the theme of what we can do to prevent projects failing: Step one was to consider if the project manager has the necessary skills to manage projects; Step two was to consider the needs of the organisation. S tep three is to chose the right projects. Picking the Right Projects We need to make sure that only projects that are critical to the business take place.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 27, 2016
I love architecture, though I'm not an architect, and never studied architecture. Of course, I love system architecture, which is both different from building and construction per se, and identical -- because a building is a system, just as any other such integrated structure is a system. Frank Gehry is one of Canada-America's more esteemed architects.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 23, 2016
“Startups are hard,” Jason Carlson admits in the latest installment of our CTO Series. Not only does it take a unique vision, enormous commitment and hard boiled determination, you might have to take up jobs outside your expertise and hustle beyond your wildest dreams. And then, there’s chance and timing—which can be for you or against you. When the Great Recession hit and LiquidPlanner didn’t yet have a paying company, the company faced some challenging times.
Herding Cats
MAY 26, 2016
Here's a straightforward approach to estimating on agile projects. This is an example of the estimating profession found on many domains. .
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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.
The Lazy Project Manager
MAY 25, 2016
I need your help with the research for my new book ‘ How to avoid getting Fired at the ‘C’ Level’ (working title) – looking in depth at the reality of executive level engagement and understanding of the business change that they have ultimate responsibility for, through the project portfolio that they own, for the organisations that they lead.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 25, 2016
Since at least the 1970s we've all been acutely aware of the vagaries of the influence of the brain processes in concert with environment and context on decision making. Fair enough For those that are not so acutely aware, begin with the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky -- their stuff is the classic treatment Now comes more on the same line of thought -- no pun intended No less an.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 25, 2016
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. The post Coaching with the GROW Model [Video] appeared first on.
Herding Cats
MAY 23, 2016
The on-going discussions that Decisions can be made in the absence of estimates reminds me of this concept. . The conjecture that we can manage in the presence of uncertanty without estimating the impacts of our decisions, willfully ignores uncertainties in the present and future that will impact our outcomes, the external governance frameworks of managerial finance, probability and statistics of the processes under management, and regular governance processes and the decision rights of those
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Project Management Hacks
MAY 27, 2016
Image Credit: Pixabay.com. Making a move to a new job is a major decision. There’s new people, new terms to learn and the pressure of being “the new guy.” There’s also concern about knowing whether the move is right for you. Fortunately, there is a way to reduce uncertainty about these decisions: job shadowing. Once reserved for students and recent graduates, job shadowing is a strategy that professionals are using to explore new careers today.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 27, 2016
Posted in General The PM life. The post When it’s finally Friday! appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 27, 2016
Getting the right collaboration tool for your team is really important – as is knowing how to use it. It’s something that my book, Collaboration Tools for Project Managers , goes into in a lot of detail because if you get it wrong it’s a massive waste of expense and energy. But I don’t have the monopoly on knowing how to do it. I talk to a lot of project managers about the software they use and there is often a common theme: they are pushed into finding something better because they can’t carry
Herding Cats
MAY 27, 2016
The basis of #Noestimates is that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without having to estimate the impact of those decisions. Here's a research paper that hopefully will put an end to the nonsensical idea of #NoEstimates. All project work is uncertain. And has been stated here endless times, uncertainty comes in two forms - Reducible (Epistemic) and Irreducible (Aleatory).
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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 23, 2016
Learn about our new and improved project navigation bar and how it makes finding files, adding comments, and managing project members quick and easy for you.
Fix my Project Chaos
MAY 22, 2016
Giving back through the Project Management Day of Service (PMDoS) with Laura Barnard and Kendall Lott In this podcast I speak with Laura Barnard and Kendall Lott about the Project Management Day of Service. The Project Management Day of Service (PMDoS) is the largest event of its kind to give back to the community and support non-profits and charities […].
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 25, 2016
General Information. Name: iMindQ. Vendor: Seavus. Hosting options: Windows, Mac, online. Cost and plans: Online version is free. Windows single-user perpetual licence is €109. The Mac version is cheaper at €73. Languages: English. Currency: n/a. Mindmapping Made Easy. iMindQ is a mindmapping product. You can create mindmaps and flow diagrams for anything.
Herding Cats
MAY 24, 2016
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fool do not imitate the success of the wise - Cato the Elder. Any conjecture not based on testable principles, independent of personal opinion or anecdotes cannot stand up to the questioning of the wise. Related articles. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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