INFOGRAPHIC: 7 Tips for Preventing Project Manager Burnout. MORE
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 15, 2017
Today I’m interviewing Amy Hamilton. Amy’s spoken at a TEDTalk, served in the US Army, and is writing a book. Truly a woman of many talents! I asked her how she got started. Amy, how did you get started in project management? I have been in the IT field since I graduated from Eastern Michigan University and was commissioned in the US Army.
Project Risk Coach
MARCH 13, 2017
Discover Practical Ways to Build Trust in Your Teams Team values drive the team’s behavior and actions. If the team values efficiency, individuals will look for ways to get greater results with less effort. Project managers who value communication seek to improve understanding between stakeholders. Many individuals assume that all the team members have similar values.
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Project Bliss
MARCH 15, 2017
As project managers, we have to influence others – usually without formal authority. We lead project teams made up of people who likely report to a different functional manager. And yet we depend on these team members to complete project work, meet milestone due dates, and prioritize our project work among their other tasks. We need to encourage software end users to embrace and adopt new solutions.
Binfire
MARCH 13, 2017
Everybody makes mistakes. The secret to success as a project manager or any other profession is to learn from our mistakes and not repeat common mistakes project managers make; even the experienced ones. Project manager’s role is complicated. Depending on organization’s structure, project management method used by the organization and the team’s experience the role of project manager varies widely from project to project.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 13, 2017
I’m glad to be partnering with Resource Guru to bring you this article. When I was researching Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World I came across a multitude of studies on how projects run late. The headline figures are often impressive, but it’s harder to find research into why scheduling doesn’t go to plan. In my experience, there are some very common reasons for project schedules turning out to be unreliable.
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Ron Rosenhead
MARCH 15, 2017
The latest PMI Pulse of the Profession Report said: “We are encouraged to see in this year’s Pulse of the Profession® that organizations are making progress—significant progress—as they are experiencing more success with implementing strategic initiatives. For the first time in the last five years of this research, we see that more projects are meeting original goals and being completed within budget.”.
Ganttic
MARCH 14, 2017
You have dragged and dropped yet another meeting to your schedule. You already know you'll see a bunch of annoyed faces around the meeting table. It's not you. It's the way meetings are being held. 41.9% of the meetings are evaluated to have poor quality. But you can do better. You can actually plan a meeting that is both useful and enjoyed by your team.
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 14, 2017
As a consultant, I frequently work with companies that lack a unified business process and struggle to deliver their projects on time. Even though I hear the same story time and again, I’m surprised by how so many organizations function in a state of constant chaos. It doesn’t have to be this way! With just 6 steps, you can go from missed deadlines and isolated teams to a shared process and on-time delivery.
The Digital Project Manager
MARCH 13, 2017
Sortd is a project management tool akin to Asana or Trello, right inside Slack. It gives you full function collaboration boards in each of your. The post Sortd – Project management tool for Slack 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
Project-Management.pm
MARCH 14, 2017
One of the key elements of an effective and successful project management is someone’s ability to master persuasion. It’s hard work since you don’t want to appear too pushy when you want certain members of the group to do what you asked them to do. Project management persuasion is different than your usual persuasion techniques that you see when someone sells a car or who leads a country for a change.
Green Project Management
MARCH 14, 2017
In this installment of our series on the SDGs, we look at #12 of 17, Ensure Responsible Consumption and Production Patterns. This goal encompasses eight targets for sustainable development. For this post, we are going to focus on numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7. Sustainable consumption and production in this context, means to do more and better […]. The post Sustainable Development Goal #12 of 17 and Project Management, Responsible Consumption and Production. appeared first on Delivering a better w
LiquidPlanner
MARCH 16, 2017
LiquidPlanner CEO Liz Pearce was recently featured on TechChats, a web series by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). The series offers a look into some of the most successful executives in the industry and what they’re doing to grow and innovate within their companies. In the interview, Pearce chats with Rhianna Collier, VP for the software division at SIIA, about top project management challenges, the benefits of a data-driven approach to project management, and how an A
Digite
MARCH 17, 2017
Img Src: Youtube.com/VanceLowe. There is a quote introducing PI Planning content on the Scaled Agile Framework website. The quote reads “There is no magic in SAFe except maybe for PI Planning” In this blog, I aim to take a closer look at the PI Planning ceremony and in the process maybe gain more clarity on why it is held in such high regard.
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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.
Project-Management.pm
MARCH 14, 2017
Projects involved a lot of planning , implementation , and not to mention tracking or detecting issues and problems within the team or the project, and surpassing the following process. It also means successfully identified the stakeholders and risks and the project are already in the plan, ready for implementation. But don’t forget the essential factors of them all—controlling and monitoring.
Kiron Bondale
MARCH 12, 2017
Today’s Dilbert comic strip provides us with a good reminder of the fine line which exists between reasonable oversight of activities and micromanagement. Dilbert has allowed sufficient time to pass before seeking an update on a colleague’s assigned task only to find that it has been neglected due to a lack of following up. When Dilbert attempts to get commitment on a revised completion date, he’s accused of micromanaging the activity.
Redbooth
MARCH 17, 2017
As with any startup, the members of our small marketing team each wear multiple hats and often share them with each other. Between re-branding exercises, new product launches , and a shift in our sales and marketing strategy , it sometimes feels like we’re picking random hats out of an old costume trunk and wearing what just feels right for the day.
Digite
MARCH 16, 2017
Personal productivity and time management tools/methods have always been a subject of interest. Numerous methods and tools have been developed over the years. However, few seem to stick over time. Given that any tool or method needs a certain level of discipline at an individual level, is there a method that can really help you manage better, visualize what you need to do and most importantly, stick?
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TimeCamp
MARCH 15, 2017
As an entrepreneur, you often struggle to find the balance between the workload and the constant lack of human resources. It can feel scary and separating, particularly in the first place. Be that as it may, because of the web, you don’t need to go only it. There are an enormous amount of free online […].
Wrike
MARCH 15, 2017
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: . Product managers are technical people, so there’s no need to involve them in business, marketing, or sales decisions. Product managers spend all their time writing requirements. Creating a roadmap is just a matter of sprinkling some features on a timeline and adding a few dates. Product managers are all former engineers.
Herding Cats
MARCH 11, 2017
There was a Tweet two days ago from one of the founders of eXtreme Programming, that said. What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? . This quote demonstrates a lack of understanding of making decisions in the presence of uncertainty and the processes and events that create uncertainty. First, let's establish a principle.
Resource Guru
MARCH 17, 2017
As a remote team, Slack , the messaging app, is a key part of our daily life here at Resource Guru. As our central communications hub we use Slack to discuss work, share photos, and keep track of notifications from tools like Trello. We plan to release an official Resource Guru – Slack integration in the future, but in the meantime I wanted to show you how you can combine Resource Guru’s leave management functionality with our new Zapier integration to send sick leave booking notifications
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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
MARCH 12, 2017
Thinking of switching project management tools? Ask yourself these three important questions before you do.
TimeCamp
MARCH 13, 2017
In a marketing agency, many factors can determine our success. Thus, it is vital that we keep an eye on every client, task, project, but also on our employees. It is not easy, and we may easily miss an important chance, just because there is too much on our minds. A great way to improve is […].
Herding Cats
MARCH 17, 2017
It's common to hear, projects are overhead, we just need to get the value to the customer as fast as possible. This seems to be a lament from agile developers. Anything getting in the way of them coding is seen as an impediment. . Here's a little story. Long ago (1978) in a land far away (Redondo Beach) I too wrote code and continued to write code for a decade or so after that.
Celoxis
MARCH 16, 2017
INFOGRAPHIC: 7 Tips for Preventing Project Manager Burnout.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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