Sat.Jun 11, 2016 - Fri.Jun 17, 2016

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Brexit: The Implications for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Tomorrow the UK goes to the polls to vote on whether we should leave the European Union. If the country votes for Brexit, the implications for British business are huge. The implications for the country overall are massive too, but a lot has been written about that already and I’m not in a position to add anything to the debate. I’ll be voting in the morning.

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How to Be a Powerful Risk Management Evangelist

Project Risk Coach

Mark Langley, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI), penned a great article entitled Using Project Management to Reduce Risk. While the article was written for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), it’s a message that all leaders should read. Indeed, “high-performing companies manage risk in conjunction with projects and programs far more often than low performers do.” Image courtesy of AdobeStock (edited in Canva).

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Improve business outcomes by aligning project management and CRM

Moira Alexander

In most companies, individual departments or teams believe they hold the key to understanding customer needs more than other areas of the business. But the reality is that different departments simply have a different view into customer expectations and none has an all-encompassing view. CRM teams and EPMO/PMOs are not immune to this misconception. When you look at the two roles, both ultimately focus on customer/stakeholder satisfaction and utilize similar or comparable mechanisms to accomplish

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Communication Breakdown

The Lazy Project Manager

‘If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words’ Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. The would be ‘lazy’ project manager will think very, very carefully about what they need to communicate and how they need to communicate it and why they are communicating what they are communicating. The general guidance is that some 70-80% of a project manager’s time will be spent in communicating.

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Win a Training Course [Giveaway]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Is project reporting the highlight of your week? No, me neither. I have something that might sort that out for you. Better Project Status Reports is a 5 step process for communicating confidently about your project. We spend a lot of time communicating about projects in writing, and the different types of reports are a main tool for doing that. This course will help you: Save time on reporting.

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Drive for show…

Kiron Bondale

When a golf professional hits a monster drive it looks very impressive and draws “ Oohs !” and “ Aahs !” from the crowd. However golf pros know that excellence at the short game, especially putting, is what wins tournaments. For those of us who don’t make our livings on the links, when we visit a driving range, it is much more entertaining to pull out our long clubs and hit a bucket of balls than it is to put in the time to practice chipping or putting even though w

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How to Transition Your Team Over to a New Tool

LiquidPlanner

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Brand. If you’re an IT management professional, these are the glory days aren’t they? You have at your disposal an ever-growing throng of product developers working tirelessly to meet all of your needs and take the “hard” out of your hard day’s work.

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Stakeholder Register [Free Template]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This month’s free project management template is a register for your stakeholders. This is what it looks like. Pretty basic, huh? But using mine saves you a job. It’s not like being a classroom where you’ll tick them off as they arrive at meetings or anything (what’s that called where you are? Here it’s the class register and the teacher takes it in the morning).

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Deadlines Require Time and Care For Success

Herding Cats

The latest thread in agile is. the continued paradigm of deadline-driven development is killing the benefits that Agile Software Development can bring. It is suggested by Neil Killick that. using genuine time constraints as a factor in the prioritisation of work rather than as a focus for its execution, the odds of meeting those "deadlines" are actually improved.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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

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Why Most People Fail At Career Change

Project Management Hacks

Are you unhappy with the direction of your career? You’re not alone. Each year, there are new surveys on employee engagement that suggest millions are frustrated with their current job. In fact, Jobvite’s 2012 Social Job Seeker Survey found 69% of Americans they were either “actively seeking” a new job or “open to” a new job.

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How to Integrate Your Existing Process Into Dynamic Project Management

LiquidPlanner

Most of us working in the technology world are constantly on the look-out for the best new tool—something meaningful and a bit magical that will increase our productivity, boost confidence and improve the quality of our working relationships and the final product. But how do you make the transition from the known way of working on projects (even if it sucks) to the new, better way?

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Give Away: The Project Managers Guide to Mastering Agile

Stepping Into Project Management

If you have been planning to read up this summer, this might be handy. Giving away The Project Managers Guide to Mastering AGILE , to read a review about it and know more details click here. The give away is applicable only in India (no international shipping for now). Here' what you have to do: You can leave comments below on what inspires you to be a Project Manager?

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Software Economics

Herding Cats

Here's some thoughts on the economics of software development using other people's money, after 3 weeks of working a proposal for a major software intensive system of systems using Agile. With the advent of Agile, the linear spend planning and delivery of capabilities was altered to iterative and incremental spend and delivery planning. Time boxed, drip funding, fixed budget are funding profiles that might be added to the economic model once they've been verified and validated in practice to pr

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.

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Cash on the barrel-head

Musings on Project Management

Has everyone got a handle on EBITDA? NO? In a few words, EBITDA is a measure of cash earnings from the real business, the day to day stuff that creates value for customers, users, and stakeholders: cash, as Earnings, Before any Interest payments, Taxes, or Deductions for non-cash items like depreciation of tangible assets and Amortization of intangibles.

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What We’re Reading This Week: Data Mining

LiquidPlanner

Every week we scour the web to bring you a few of the stories we think are worthy of discussion. This week we’re deep in the data weeds, exploring the pros and cons of big data vs. small data, how to use it to make business decisions and whether the role of data scientist is really needed. We all know that data mining is incredible useful, assuming you know what you’re looking for and have a mechanism for mining and parsing it.

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Is Work/Life Balance really a Myth? | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

When you work remotely, setting boundaries around when you work is critical. Find out how work/life balance benefits you—and why it’s totally possible.

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Software Development Process Improvement Opportunities

Herding Cats

When we hear about all the suggested ways to improve the effectiveness of our development effort, if we're to going work on improvements, let's go where the REAL money is. . Here's the IT budget for the Federal Government. This is larger than all the IT systems found everywhere else in the world, plus all their custom built IT stuff. This is not the embedded systems.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Morse code on a Smart Phone?

Musings on Project Management

OMG! Now we learn about an experiment to "simplify" typing on a smart phone -- perhaps someday coming to you. Google has been thinking about a variant of Morse Code they call TAP Don't remember your Morse? Perhaps you remember this: Of course, on a smart phone, it's much "simpler". You merely 'tap' on two large buttons, one for dot and one for dash.

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The New and Improved LiquidPlanner Help Center

LiquidPlanner

In a self-service business world, it’s important to have quick access to the right kind of help articles. Whether you’re new to LiquidPlanner or you’ve been around for a while, there’s often something new to learn about, or brush up on. There are a lot of features that make our project management tool rich and robust. As a product expert, I help people become experts in using LiquidPlanner to map to their process and business needs.

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5 Ways to Effectively Manage Shifting Priorities

Hydra

{socialbuttons}. No matter how closely you are managing a project, there are certain factors even the most experienced project managers simply cannot control. There could be changing legislation that means the deadline on one project is brought forward while another is pushed back. Alternatively, last minute client requests or deadline changes could lead to a shift in priorities and the swift reallocation of resources.

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Podcast 89 – Tips on How to Manage a Demanding Workload

Fix my Project Chaos

Let’s talk about how to manage a demanding workload Project managers often having incredibly arduous workloads. In this podcast, project leadership coach Susanne Madsen talks to me about how to manage a demanding workload. For 17 years, Susanne Madsen worked in the corporate sector leading change programs for organisations such as Standard Bank, Citigroup and […].

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

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.

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Qualities of good employees

Musings on Project Management

Jeff Haden at the Owner's Manual on Inc.com has written about employee qualities. By Haden's telling, great employees have these qualities: They ignore job descriptions. They’re eccentric. But they know when to dial it back. They publicly praise. And they privately complain. They speak when others won’t. They like to prove others wrong. They’re always fiddling.

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A Design Workflow Tutorial for Developers: Deliver Better UI/UX On Time

Ganttic

Working with a great designer. or design team can be an invaluable asset to any team. With clear. communication channels, and free-flowing co-operation, the designer. should give you everything you need to speed up the building process and limit questions and confusion as much as possible. What can you, the UX developer , do to ensure that the product you have built is delivered in a timely. manner without sacrificing the quality of the user interface and user. experience?

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A Guide to Buying the Right PSA Solution

Hydra

{socialbuttons}. A guide on what to look out for when choosing a professional services automation software and its benefits.

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The Way

The Tao of Project Management

So to get back to the Way, let's look at how this all fits with the Tao: Establish the Current Status We need to become silent and listen with our inner selves. The wise project manager stays in the present. The past is over and done with, there's no point in thinking about what might have been.Likewise there's no point in trying to second guess the future, it will be what it will be.

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From Concepts to Actionable Insights: Powering Digital Transformation Success

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.