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Have You Left Anything Out of Your Project Plan?

Project Risk Coach

The Project Plan Checklist Have you left anything out of your project plan? Check out this project plan checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. I like to keep my project plans as simple as possible. For many project plans, I will only have three or four of the items in this checklist.

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Are you ready for remote project management?

Moira Alexander

Managing projects is a demanding job, and it's more seem challenging when you add in the fact that you're doing it remotely. But it doesn't have to be. After identifying all the possible barriers to remote project management, as well as some of the possible solutions, your business should further analyze and document the readiness of your teams, processes and technologies.

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The not so minimum Minimum Viable Product

Kiron Bondale

Through their Lean Startup work, Steve Blank and Eric Ries have popularized the idea of focusing on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which will meet a customer’s core needs while minimize investment and providing opportunities for learning, refinement and the ability to fail fast. Organizations have latched on to MVP principles and reworked development approaches as a means to avoid gold-plating and to achieve time to market and early ROI benefits.

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Hex Naw

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in Tools. [link]. Make the web better with Hex Naw, a color accessibility testing tool that uses the power of Colorable to help designers and developers test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility. Plug in your palette or color system and let Hex Naw do the rest. The post Hex Naw appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Developing a Project Plan [Video]

Project Risk Coach

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Although this video focuses on community projects, the questions presented in the video apply to for any type project. I recommend that you develop a project charter prior to developing your project plan. Here’s a checklist to help you with your project plan. Video Credit: Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal.

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Done Is Better Than Perfect: How To Manage Your Projects The Right Way – Guest Post by Andrea Bell

Celoxis

What makes a perfect project? Ask any project manager and they will all have conflicting answers. Some may quote cost effectiveness, others may say delivery before the deadline and some may say planning. But do we really have a scale to measure how perfect a project is?

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Team Chat Made to Stick

Redbooth

Wondering why so few people are using your newly implemented team chat app? From our experience, it boils down to two things. First, it might be that the app wasn’t rolled out properly to teams. Because many team chat apps seem intuitive, team leaders or admins often just invite members and expect everyone to jump on it. Most people don’t want to change the way they already work — even if the new way is better.

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3 Tips to Improve Project Management for Creative Teams

Wrike

The art of project management is strongly influenced by the line of work you’re in. In some companies, project management is a full-time job, overseeing large teams and multiple, complex projects. Whereas in others, teams are small and task distribution is pretty straightforward. When it comes to managing creative wor k, the project manager is often also a team lead—and a team mediator.

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Why We Need Estimates

Herding Cats

The ability to generate reliable cost and schedule estimates is a critical success factor necessary to support business projects. Without this ability, business value is at risk of experiencing cost overruns, missed deadlines, and performance shortfalls—all recurring problems that projects assessments too often reveal. Furthermore, cost increases often mean that the business firm cannot fund as many projects as intended or deliver them when promised.

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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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This is How I work- Laurens Bonnema

Stepping Into Project Management

Laurens Bonnema is an Agile Management Consultant with Xebia and an expert in sustainably aligning business and IT to improve the results of IT projects. He also helps people (re)learn how to visualize their ideas through sketchnoting, graphic recording, and videoscribing so they can communicate those ideas more effectively, help each other to solve problems, and have lots of fun.

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Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time

Fix my Project Chaos

Let’s talk about how to do career planning in a short period of time In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks with career coach Scotia Lockwood about how busy project managers can do career planning in a short period of time. Scotia’s passion is to empower professional woman to take control of their careers, whether that […]. The post Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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How To Pick Up A Project From Someone Else

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the last couple of weeks I’ve turned into a woman who runs down Regent Street in ridiculous heels to get to her next meeting on time. Who has said, “Sorry, I’ve got a mouthful of lunch, hang on,” too many times on the phone because there isn’t enough time in the day not to work through lunch. Who has paid library fines even though the books are just there ready to go back, because she can’t get out of the office for 20 minutes to return them.

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Fair and Balanced in the Absence of Principles?

Herding Cats

We hear fair and balanced is a desirable approach to problems. Turns out this is a false balance when the issue under discussion doesn't address an underlying principle. . One side can be wrong. It is seductive to state we're exploring new ways to do things. in the absence of the underlying principles that would guide the explorer to a possible new way to doing something.

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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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Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success (REVIEW)

Project Management Hacks

Ever since I read “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcom Gladwell , I have been fascinated with productivity and success. I recently read Shane Snow ‘s book, “Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success.” In sum, it is a good book that puts forward compelling principles and provides fascinating stories to support them.

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Leading with microknowledge

Musings on Project Management

Robert Gates, former U.S. Defense Secretary, wrote in his memoirs that a strong and effective leader in a big and complex organization needs to put the time and energy into acquiring "microknowledge" but refrain from "micromanagement. An interesting thought, to be sure. Let the emphasis lie on ". put in the time and energy. " This stuff is not free.

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The New Social Project World [Giveaway]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Roll up, roll up! Peter Taylor and I are hosting a fantastic event in London on 1 December all about how to work in a collaborative, social project management structure. It’s the first event that I have been responsible for organising and as my name is on it, I can guarantee you that we’ll be putting in every effort to make it practical, value-packed and fun.

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How & Why to Use the Kanban Methodology for Software Development

GanttPRO Project Management

You’ve probably heard of the Kanban project management methodology, but you may not know a lot about it. What are the differences between Kanban and other agile methodologies like Scrum, […].

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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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Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time

Fix my Project Chaos

Let’s talk about how to do career planning in a short period of time In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks with career coach Scotia Lockwood about how busy project managers can do career planning in a short period of time. Scotia’s passion is to empower professional woman to take control of their careers, whether that […]. The post Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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The originals creative thinkers

Musings on Project Management

Not necessarily first we learn, but certainly be the best and be different In a TED talk, Adam Grant opines on what qualities or habits there are to look for in "the originals" -- as he calls them -- that lead to creatively different successes Grant finds three habits: Modest procrastination: not pre-crastinators for sure -- those working far ahead of schedule -- but not so late as to be out

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Digital PM Summit: Video Diary Day 2

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s my video recap of Day 2 of the Digital PM Summit in San Antonio, featuring the Alamo! And some other work stuff too, including a quote by Jeremy Clarkson, which rather tickled me. If you can’t see the video, watch it here on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/187462789. You'll also like: Digital PM Summit: Video Diary Day 1 My video diary from Day 1 of the Digital PM Summit in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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How to start projects better with your clients

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in General How-to Guides. We all want great project kickoff meetings but are we doing the right groundwork with our clients so we have a better client kickoff meeting? Projects sometimes start off a bit wonky because we dive straight into the project without getting to know the client and truly understanding some of. The post How to start projects better with your clients appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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How & Why to Use the Kanban Methodology for Software Development

GanttPRO Project Management

You’ve probably heard of the Kanban project management methodology, but you may not know a lot about it.

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October Product Update: Focus on the Work That Really Matters

LiquidPlanner

Did you know that your ability to focus at work directly impacts personal and business success? Various studies have proven that focus is tied to job engagement, which is tied to increased productivity and business growth. Still, the struggle to focus on work that needs to be done right now is universal. Distractions are everywhere. Projects grow in scope and priorities change; co-workers stop by to chat (fun), and ask for last-minute help (not so fun).

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What's On TeamGantt's Reading List? | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

What's on the TeamGantt team's reading list? Check out our current selections, from fiction to spiritual literature to non-fiction.

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Facilitation

The Tao of Project Management

Lao Tzu tells us that there are four types of leaders and this seems to apply quite well to project managers, see how many of the four you have come into contact with: Weak Project Managers Ineffectual project managers that have been promoted to their level of incompetence. They struggle to get anything done and are generally seen as losers. Consequently n o one wants to be in their team and we can all agree they are poor project managers.

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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.