Project Risk Coach
MAY 7, 2016
Are you a project manager who focuses on gaining control of your project risks? Some project managers start their projects with a strong focus on risk management. However, somewhere along the way they lose steam. They increasingly spend more time dealing with issues and implementing workarounds. They are frustrated and filled with anxiety. Other project managers start out strong.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 13, 2016
This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Paul Pelletier. Project managers establish and foster workplace behaviour expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. That leads to two clear choices: do you commit to a positive, respectful model for workplace culture or a disrespectful, bullying model?
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Musings on Project Management
MAY 11, 2016
Technical debt: we've all written about it; I've described in my book, Project Management the Agile Way (see below), but I guess the industry has never settled on a formal definition. I've always thought of it as a "punch list" that is a "debt" that must be retired in the future. stuff that needs to get DONE or fixed so that we can say to the sponsor: hey, it's DONE and the QUALITY is.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 9, 2016
Sometimes, the state of affairs has been so bad for so long, you just roll with it. Because everyone else does too! In the case of project management software, well of course it can be a pain to update, and it hardly ever reflects the current schedule but it works (sort of)! Everyone else is using it! I went to school to learn how to use it! It’s better than nothing!
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Project Risk Coach
MAY 13, 2016
Project managers may fail to achieve their project objectives because they don’t know how to take a look backward and forward at their risks. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Some project managers only look backward. If we only look backward, we will miss opportunities that lie before us, and we will likely be blindsided by threats.
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Herding Cats
MAY 8, 2016
The conjecture of #NoEstimates starts with the first Tweet. This conjectures - (there are) . ways to make decisions with No Estimates. is not founded on any principle of business management, microeconomics of decision making, or principles of probability and statistics. It's a fallacy. Let's start with a simple approach to exploring for anything?
The Tao of Project Management
MAY 13, 2016
Just to re-cap, I am taking a deeper look into what we can do to prevent projects going wrong. But let's start with the reason why projects fail. Why Projects Fail I covered this in a post in June 2015 but I need to add one bit of clarification on project failure. Stopping a project that is in danger of going badly wrong or failing is not a project failure, it is good project management.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 11, 2016
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Often times, the problems we encounter as project managers are not technical; they are interpersonal issues. Some project managers fail to reach their potential due to poor stakeholder management. In this video, Colin Gautrey shares his insights on how to influence stakeholders.
Wrike
MAY 12, 2016
Work requests come in all shapes and sizes : b ig requests, small requests, requests via email, requests via conference call, and probably one of the most dreaded — the “pop-in” request. We’ve all had our share of giving and receiving requests in different ways, so it’s no surprise that this feature was one of the most-wanted among our users.
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
Stepping Into Project Management
MAY 10, 2016
Work is not done in seclusion, our job part of our life and what’s going on in your life will affect your work. Everyday. This often means if you are going through difficult times in your personal life, it will reflect in your work as well. Hitting rock bottom doesn’t always mean you have to stay put there; it does help to have supportive work space and friends.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 9, 2016
By the time you read this I’ll be in sunny Barcelona for the PMI Global Congress EMEA 2016. I won’t be blogging live from the event – as we are travelling as a family I’m going really light on luggage and am not taking a laptop with me. You can get my latest thoughts and reflections on the event by liking GirlsGuideToPM on Facebook.
Project Risk Coach
MAY 9, 2016
What is one of the top challenges that you face as a project manager? Answer this question on my blog and join the discussion → The post What is one of the top challenges that you face as a project manager? [Question] appeared first on.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 8, 2016
Here's a good TED talk as an interview with Linus Torvalds, the geek of geeks, and inventor of LINUX and Git Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," Torvalds says.
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Fix my Project Chaos
MAY 8, 2016
Be a confident change leader In this podcast, I speak with Barbara Trautlein on why is it important for project managers to be confident change leaders. Listen to the podcast below about how to be a confident change leader. Barbara founded Change Catalysts twenty years ago and continues to serve as its principal. She is a […]. The post Podcast 84 – How to be a confident change leader with Barbara Trautlein Ph.
Kiron Bondale
MAY 8, 2016
The cynical among us might feel that special days like Mother’s or Father’s Day were created to boost the profits of greeting card companies, however there’s no doubt that we owe a great deal to our parents. Giving birth to a child meets the usual definition of a project in that it is a temporary and unique endeavor, it consumes resources, is fraught with uncertainty and yet is expected to deliver great value.
Function Point
MAY 9, 2016
Last week Function Point released a new Gantt chart, moving towards a more visual approach to creative agency project management. I personally think the new Gantt is awesome and am stoked for what’s next in the pipeline. But in these times of change, I find myself wondering what will happen to the old Gantt. It’s been around for so long, I feel bad for just tossing it aside.
Wrike
MAY 12, 2016
Work requests come in all shapes and sizes : b ig requests, small requests, requests via email, requests via conference call, and probably one of the most dreaded — the “pop-in” request. We’ve all had our share of giving and receiving requests in different ways, so it’s no surprise that this feature was one of the most-wanted among our users.
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Project Risk Coach
MAY 7, 2016
The Seminole County High School dedicated the Annual to Dorothy Hall in 1970. I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. -Abraham Lincoln. No one loved me like Mama. She was a kind, gentle, southern woman who touched many lives. Mama was a model, not a fashion model, but a model for others to follow.
Project Management Hacks
MAY 12, 2016
Would you like to achieve your goals faster? The right mentors and counsel have the potential to move you closer to success. In the span of less than two years, Geoff Woods has transformed his career through high level networking. I first discovered Geoff through his excellent podcast, The Mentee Podcast. Who Is Geoff Woods? Geoff Woods is the host of T he Mentee podcast.
Function Point
MAY 9, 2016
Last week Function Point released a new Gantt chart, moving towards a more visual approach to creative agency project management. I personally think the new Gantt is awesome and am stoked for what’s next in the pipeline. But in these times of change, I find myself wondering what will happen to the old Gantt. It’s been around for so long, I feel bad for just tossing it aside.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 12, 2016
Are you an Okta customer? In February we launched single sign-on (SSO) functionality. This streamlines access to LiquidPlanner for our customers and makes it easy for IT admins to manage employee access. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that LiquidPlanner now connects to Okta and is part of Okta Application Network , a catalog of thousands of pre-integrated applications.
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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.
Troubled and Failing Project
MAY 12, 2016
The other day a Latvian student contacted me for my views the connection between culture and success criteria—an important and intriguing topic. After working in Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Japan, Israel, United States, and Canada, I wear many scars of both blatant and subtle cultural violations. I also know that within a culture one person's success is often another person's failure.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 11, 2016
Being a leader can be considered both a position of power and vulnerability. You are in both a role of influence and one with high visibility. All the while, the effect you have on teams and individuals is meaningful. That’s why it matters to do your job effectively. After all, team leaders are often a big reason why many of us either stay at a job or leave.
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