The Digital Project Manager
MAY 14, 2019
What is the most valuable asset any professional, project manager, or agency can have? Trust. The post How To Build Trust In Your Client & Business Relationships appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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Project Risk Coach
MAY 13, 2019
According to PMI, "47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management." Wow! Requirements are a pretty big deal. Let's look at five things to start and five things to stop in requirements management. 5 Things to Start Identify and engage appropriate stakeholders. Project managers who work in a matrix environment should seek resource approval from stakeholder's managers early in the project.
Project Bliss
MAY 16, 2019
The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. But that’s EXACTLY what it’s intended to be. It’s structured in a way that allows participants to quickly talk through various topics they choose in a short amount of time. Sounds promising, you say? But then isn’t that what OFTEN happens in meetings with no structure? People just sit around and talk…and there’s often no value.
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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.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 16, 2019
To lead a top-performing team, you need to do more than direct and delegate work. Truly effective managers can recognize the unique strengths of each team member and optimize all those natural gifts. If you’re in a leadership position, this might sound like a daunting task, but it’s not. The first step is to identify each person’s strengths and then manage around those essential skills.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
MAY 13, 2019
In my experience, most project managers feel that they could ‘do’ lessons learned better. We all know that capturing lessons learned is an essential part of making sure that future projects go well, but capturing and sharing them seems to be something that we don’t feel we do particularly effectively. And it isn’t surprising – managing lessons learned is hard to do well on a project.
Scrum.org
MAY 12, 2019
. It was 8:59 am on Monday. It is another week which I think is going to be amazing. Last week our company just got another round of investment. The company is now strategizing to scale agility throughout the company. . As I was rushing to the office I met Ahmed at the front of the office as he was going to the pantry to get some coffee. Ahmed is our Chief Financial Officer. .
Kiron Bondale
MAY 12, 2019
Information radiators are a great idea. After all, who wouldn’t want to reduce the effort involved in keeping stakeholders up-to-date about a product or project or increase the consistency in messaging to all stakeholders? But convincing executives to use information radiators as a primary means of staying current is not an easy task. Yes, there might be a few early adopters who are open to trying a different way but most are likely to prefer to receive these updates the way they’ve
ProjectManager.com
MAY 14, 2019
Much as a librarian is responsible for organizing a large collection of books, organizations must have a set protocol for managing the information they collect when doing business. Not being able to find or protect data makes for a dangerous precedent. While companies might hire someone with a library science degree to help them organize large amounts of data, that is only a part of what is needed.
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
Musings on Project Management
MAY 12, 2019
The first thing you do to reduce risk. is: loosen the coupling between sources of effects. Create buffers; remove dependencies; install redundancy. This is a concept from System Engineering (buffers, dampers, redundancy; but also loose tolerances; fuses; barriers and walls.
Scrum.org
MAY 12, 2019
We have been experiencing a radical change in terms of market dynamics and economic models for the last few decades. In fact, we are shifting from a world where giant companies are kings to a world where clients are kings, in other words, from a production-oriented world to a new service-based world. This radical and great change also affects the company structures and ways of doing business.
The Digital Project Manager
MAY 13, 2019
The post How To Calculate The Cost of Project Management In Your Project Estimate? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
LiquidPlanner
MAY 14, 2019
Building high-performing teams isn’t easy, even though teamwork and project management go hand in hand. As teams form, they all go through Bruce Tuckman’s four stages of team development, which is characterized by formal introductions and pleasantries, recognizing conflicting opinions, establishing common ground, and eventually working better as a team.
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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.
Musings on Project Management
MAY 15, 2019
Shim Marom has interesting post on complexity wherein he says this: "A lack of an intellectual capacity to grasp a complex system is not a sufficient argument or drive for simplification. If you artificially simplify a complex system you end up with a different system that, while simpler, is fundamentally and conceptually different from the one you started with and thus, simplification.
Scrum.org
MAY 13, 2019
Changing the way we work is extremely difficult?—?we all know this. It requires us to find novel solutions to wicked challenges, to deal with cultural baggage (‘the way we do things here’) and to bring along the people needed to make a change successful. And yet, this difficult challenge is a core responsibility of Scrum Masters: How can your organisation work effectively with Scrum if it is not considering the entire system?
ProProfs Project Management
MAY 16, 2019
The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised various questions and theories among people. Right from “whether AI is ethical?” to “how exactly will it change the world?”, there are numerous questions that are yet to be unanswered. But, what about the questions we can answer? AI has already begun revolutionizing various aspects of our lives such as online shopping, and it definitely has brought in a change for the better.
Epicflow Blog
MAY 14, 2019
We all dream of reaching maximum success with our teams and projects, even though project failure is common. We’ve surveyed members of LinkedIn PM communities to find out what leads to project failure. Over 200 PM experts from ExxonMobil, INEOS, DXC Technology, and other companies have shared their experience and proved that it’s a super hot topic. We’ve also received lots of great ideas on how to overcome the causes of project failure.
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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.
Green Project Management
MAY 13, 2019
Henry Ford never said people wanted faster horses, “what they wanted was less horseshit” (Flowers, 2014). It was a little more complicated than that, but you get the general point. The lesson of this post is that too much of anything can be bad, and we need to look at the whole asset life-cycle system […]. The post Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.
Scrum.org
MAY 16, 2019
Creative reframing is an excellent facilitation and professional coaching technique that allows you to explore problems from various, sometimes unusual and unexpected angles. In the next video , I will talk about some strategies that an agile coach can use with the creative reframing. Want to learn more about creative reframing and other facilitation techniques?
nTask
MAY 17, 2019
There are two types of mindsets in the world – a fixed mindset vs. growth mindset. Without a doubt, our minds are one of the most powerful things on Earth. The things that you grow up telling yourself will likely end up forming your personality in the long run. Which brings us to the two kinds of mindsets people generally have. Are you someone who loves challenges and don’t shy away from new experiments?
Epicflow Blog
MAY 17, 2019
There’s quite a lot of long-standing advice on how to be a good leader, yet times change and so should you. To be a good leader in our day and age, you need a different set of skills than were needed a decade or even a year ago. We’ve analyzed this spring’s leadership articles in top business publications including MIT Sloan Management Review, Inc., and Forbes and highlighted the most useful insights on how to be an empowering leader in 2019.
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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.
Proofhub
MAY 15, 2019
How to Say “Team Recognition” in 5 Different Languages. Try These Out at Your Workplace In 1995 Dr. Gary Chapman published a book called The Five Love Languages. It describes five ways to show and experience love mainly in the relationship with your mate. In his follow up book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace , Dr. Chapman and Paul White use the same concepts in the workplace.
Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives
MAY 16, 2019
Project managers don’t usually have a specific budget for team development, and yet, as the PMBoK says, teamwork is a critical factor for project success, and developing effective project tea ms is one of the primary responsibilities of the project manager. Of course, there are many dimensions to team leadership. However, this article looks at just one aspect of this – how to balance the competing imperatives of work delivery versus team development.
Gunther Verheyen
MAY 15, 2019
Thanks to the hard work of Vasili Shymanski and Khoa Doan, the international versions of the Scrum Glossary and the Scrum Values have been expanded with Belarusian and Vietnamese. Download your PDF of the Scrum Glossary , your PDF of the Scrum Values and your poster of the international Scrum Values. Share and use them as you see fit. The descriptions are now available in more than 20 different languages.
Tony Adams
MAY 15, 2019
We talk a lot about using innovation to create exciting and funky products, and to deliver a competitive advantage. But what happens when we extend our thinking and look at the way we deliver change outcomes? Value chain thinking gives us a powerful toolkit to help pinpoint innovation opportunities within our project delivery practice. Exploiting these opportunities gives us a leg-up to deliver innovative business outcomes to the market, faster and cheaper than our competitors.
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.
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