Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Today, I’m handing the blog over to Leigh Espy. She might not have been blogging about project management for long, but she has made quite an impact with her personable and helpful articles. In this piece, Leigh talks about how to tailor your presentations for the top echelons of management and the rest of the world, and how to make an impact in both.
Project Risk Coach
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
The Power of Results-Based Goals Project sponsors send a message to their project teams and other stakeholders through the goals contained in their project charters. The focus of the goals — either business results or project activities — will drive the project team. As Steven Covey said, “Begin with the end in mind.” Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.
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Green Project Management
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
“I don’t want to wear something on my body that hurts the environment or the people in it. It’s hard to know what is good and what is bad on the high street and equally hard to find fashionable or youthful ethical clothing. It shocks me that even today only 1% of cotton produced in […]. The post A rookie mistake with sustainable procurement… Lessons Learned appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.
The Lazy Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
A guest post by my friends at Genius Project. Automotive projects present challenges to companies with regards to time management, capacity and budgets. Here are a few ways to help put the right tools in place. Automotive projects are often very complex. Project management software can help manage this complexity. For example: In Germany, 80 % of the project in the automotive are delivered but only 30 % of these projects are delivered without delays and meeting budget. (2014, GPM Deutsche Gesell
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
I have been a bit lax with project management reading recently but one book that I have made time for is The Conscious Project Leader: How to Create a Culture of Success for Your Projects, Your Team and Yourself. Colin Ellis. I was lucky enough to find Colin D Ellis through talking to Ellen Maynes. It didn’t take much browsing on his website to realise that it was going to be my kind of book.
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Kiron Bondale
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Studying for the PMP exam forces a candidate to relearn project management using a standardized nomenclature, to view the world of project management in black and white rather than the many shades of grey it is, and to memorize and to be able to apply a number of mathematical formulas. One of the simple formulas we learn during our PMP study is n*(n-1)/2 which represents the total number of communication channels which can exist between a fixed number (n) of people who are working together towar
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Project Manager. Program Manager. Most of us have met one or the other, and many of us have wondered: What’s the difference? It’s easy to get confused because in some organizations program managers do work that looks a lot like what program managers do. Also, the names are so similar it’s hard to separate their meaning. And then there’s the question—does it matter?
Ganttic
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Employee onboarding processes are more important now than ever before because people are changing jobs more often today than they were just a couple of decades ago. Employees want to feel valued by their new employer and understand exactly what the expectations will be. Planning ahead for proper onboarding is key to ensuring a smooth transition for new hires and starting them on the right path toward productivity , job satisfaction, and overall success with a new company.
TeamGantt
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
Want to run productive meetings? These 10 steps can help you plan ahead and turn loathsome meetings fruitful discussions that everyone looks forward to.
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Thanks to Sean Craig's Live Sketch Note for capturing concepts directly from Woody Zuill's talk. This is a good starting point for answering the mail on the notion that decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty without estimating the impact of those decisions. Let's look at these Notes and plausible responses to the conjectures. But first, let's look at the motivation for a blog post like this one from Bono's admonition.
LiquidPlanner
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Architecting procedural change within a business is hard work, but it’s the vital and often overlooked work that can make or break the long-term success of a business. No one knows this better than Kevin Kohls, Director of Continuous Improvement for Rex Materials Group , makers of refractory (heat-resistant) and high-temperature materials commonly used in the plastics, light metals, solar and semiconductor markets.
Wrike
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
Planning and overseeing a project so that it’s completed on time, within budget, and meets expectations is not an easy feat. The best project managers know how to balance stakeholder communications with preventing scope creep, watch out for risk, and clarify roles, responsibilities, and priorities within their team. Steal some of the secrets to their success by using these 10 best practices in project management. . 1.
Project Management Hacks
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Cornelius Fichtner and Bruce Harpham, PMI Congress 2015. Do you work with people in different locations? I often work with people in different offices and countries. It’s an interesting experience to navigate. This week, I appeared on Cornelius Fichtner ‘s excellent podcast the Project Management Podcast where we discussed remote work. As a side note, I recommend the PM PrepCast if you are studying for the PMP exam (created by Cornelius Fichtner’s company).
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Herding Cats
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
The mantra of Agile is Trust the team. In some domains, that is an admirable goal. In other domains it's a naïve path to disaster. I work in the latter domain, on mission critical, sometimes national asset programs, but always mission critical - can't fail, must work, must provide proper information when called upon to do so. When we are called on to perform a Root Cause Analysis of why the system failed to do what it was suppose to be, we find the same thing that Dr.
The Digital Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
Posted in General. 3,828.7 km, that’s all that separates me from this year’s Digital PM summit. Now just over a month away, if I was going to cycle (my preferred method of transport) to San Antonio from Vancouver, I should probably start riding tomorrow. That said, I think I’ll settle for flying – after all, I want to be in tip-top learning shape and when I get there, not just a sweaty mess.
Wrike
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
It’s not often that the fastest way is also the best way, but thanks to Eric Verzuh, project managers can have the best of both worlds. Bestseller The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management pulls ideas from one of the masters in project management to deliver a comprehensive guide to succeeding in the industry — at top speed. Summary and Book Review of The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management.
Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Value and values are only one letter apart Anonymous If you're interested in a soap opera depiction of the early PC wars, you might tune into AMC's "Halt and Catch Fire" 2-season drama. The first season is on Netflix if you've missed it. On display is certainly the conflict between value and values The former being the "end" The latter being the "means" And, the conflict being whether.
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Herding Cats
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
The SAFe Reference Guide is out. The website has most everything you need, but it is hard to use and when printed in simplified mode doesn't contain the embedded pictures. In our local Agile Meetup at Rally, Charles Bradley went through the 3 major methods for agile at scale - SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus. This book is a very useful even if you're not using SAFe, there is invaluable content in the book, including many pages on estimating.
Project Risk Coach
SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Want to be more productive in your projects? Check my article: How to Be a Productive Project Manager: 7 Tips. The post The Science of Productivity [Video] appeared first on.
The Digital Project Manager
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Posted in General. [link]. Are you still using Spreadsheets to Schedule your Team? Join the 1000’s of Project Managers who have moved on! The post Still using spreadsheets? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
I don't write about construction projects all that often, but lately that's been my thing: construction. roofing, HVAC, electrical, even some plumbing and floors, etc The PMO construction extension to the PMBOK is pretty much a non-starter in my opinion. The place to start is the AIA -- aia.org -- the American Institute of Architects.
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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
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
It is probably dangerous to use this theory of information in fields for which it was not designed, but I think the danger will not keep people from using it - J. C. R. Lickider (1950). Related articles. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. IT Risk Management. Why Guessing is not Estimating and Estimating is not Guessing.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
This month’s free template is one you might not have come across before but it’s one of the most useful spreadsheet tabs I have. It’s a project communication plan template, but it focuses on the summary milestones to hit during the project life cycle. It’s not pages and pages of your approach to a project communications strategy. It’s a one-page, every comms event on a single screen, type planner.
Moira Alexander
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Many project managers may view the end of a project as a perfect opportunity to debrief, while others are onto their next project with very little time dedicated to debriefing. Some swear by the debriefing process and others simply bypass it altogether. Let's take a look at the process, its purpose, the benefits and, yes, the drawbacks. The debriefing process is conducted once the project activities have come to a close and the project is complete.
Musings on Project Management
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
The following is borrowed unashamedly from Matthew Squair at Critical Uncertainties: "Herewith, are the 15 commandments for thine safety critical software as spoken by the machine god unto his prophet Hermann Kopetz. Thou shalt regard the system safety case as thy tabernacle of safety and derive thine critical software failure modes and requirements from it.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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