ProjectManager.com

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re looking for a program manager, then that means you’re looking for someone to manage a project portfolio. A program manager is just that, a person who is responsible for managing several projects at once, and they might even have to manage many programs. As you can see, this is a unique job, one that shares many responsibilities with the project manager job description , but also differs in substantial ways.

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Project Risk Coach

MARCH 5, 2018

Respond to your most significant risks now! Here are 8 strategies. We treat risks personally and professionally every day. Imagine you have a large amount of credit card debt. You decide to eliminate one of the causes of your debt. So, you cut up your credit cards. What if you had an opportunity to increase company revenue by getting a product to market a few months early?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 7, 2018

This article, 15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. On International Women’s Day I wanted to share some tips from the fabulous women in project management whom I have interviewed on this blog. Looking back through the discussions we had, there is so much wisdom and what struck me was the total willingness to share.

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Planio

MARCH 7, 2018

The humble meeting gets a bad rap. Like email, Slack, and smartphones, meetings were never intended to take over every minute of our waking lives. But somehow they have. Look at anyone’s calendar who has multiple projects on the go (i.e. pretty much everyone) and you’ll see a nightmare-inducing pileup of meetings, events, alarms, and reminders taking over their time.

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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.

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The Digital Project Manager

MARCH 5, 2018

I used to think project communication plans were a waste of time for projects that. The post How To Create A Project Communication Plan (with FREE template) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 4, 2018

I always get a kick out of online discussions referencing agile project managers as if those are some special subset of the project management population! Yes, there certainly are agile delivery methodologies and adaptive project lifecycles and some project managers might have gained greater experience in those, but what might some of the characteristics of an agile project manager be?

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 8, 2018

Remote work is here to stay. I don’t think anyone is questioning the value that you can get from working on a remote team. The benefits are clear, but, for me, one jumps out: I can get the right resource for my team, wherever they happen to be based. However, working in a remote team is different to working with the same people in an office environment.

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Binfire

MARCH 6, 2018

I am sure by now you have heard about agile, companies big and small like Amazon and Google are using agile to manage work. You may be forgiven if you wonder why agile is used more and more for managing work and projects. If you still think Agile is good for managing software projects only, you are making a big mistake. Not only all projects can and should use Agile, organizations as a whole are becoming Agile too. .

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Musings on Project Management

MARCH 5, 2018

Mike Cohn is a guy I respect for his practical experience which he uses to leaven (*) the theory of agile methods. To that end, consider his approach to not being too slavish to the construct of stories the first time they are written, to wit: it's sometimes necessary to split a story. But: mistakes can be made. To avoid the most commonly made mistakes, Cohn's advice: ".

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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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Redbooth

MARCH 6, 2018

When you’re in the thick of a project, it can be hard to see the whole picture. How do you know that you’re staying on track and that everyone is doing their part? A project plan is that big snapshot, but it’s also a living document – a daily record of what’s getting done, the conversations between colleagues, the upcoming to-dos, and the deadline keeper.

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Online PM Courses

MARCH 5, 2018

Projects create change for the people in the organization where we are working. And the success of your projects will often depend on how well you manage that change process. But dealing with emotions and arguments is uncomfortable. So, too many project managers shy away from it. They either leave it to a ‘change manager’, or worse: they ignore it.

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Digite

MARCH 8, 2018

In this 2-part series, we are honored to publish a couple of blog posts by (2016 Brickell Key award winner) Christophe Achouiantz, Kanban thought-leader, consultant and coach. Written in the “Fika-style” (read on to understand what that is!), Christophe takes on the all too common problem that teams implementing Kanban (or any other process change initiative for that matter) face – the sense of “doom” that Kanban is not working for them because of resistance they face.

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LiquidPlanner

MARCH 6, 2018

Today I received an email from a recruiter, reading: Client seeking Project Manager to be the main liaison between the Technology group in the US and Offshore teams in India. More and more, part of our job as project managers is not just herding sheep, but herding sheep located on farms located across the globe. I once had a team that was literally spread across half the planet: Firmware developers in Ukraine.

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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.

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PM Basics

MARCH 6, 2018

Delivering project on-time and within budget is the ultimate goal for many project managers. However, when you look at it, this goal is unachievable. The thing is managers believe that the secret is in specific tricks, tools, or “experience.”. That is wrong! To deliver a project within budget and schedule, you need to understand what that really means.

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Planview

MARCH 5, 2018

Do you know whether your organization has enough resources to get work done? And are these resources focused on the right work? When it comes to forecasting and optimization, having the right resource management tools in place is critical to understanding utilization of resources to meet existing demands, and pursue new projects while accelerating project delivery.

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Meisterplan

MARCH 8, 2018

A few years ago, a fellow banking consultant told me how he requested customer data when he started his training in the 1960s. He would fill in an application and submit it to his data management colleagues. The next day, the required customer file would be on his desk. Today, data processing is a bit different. You know, digitization and such. Software helps us process more data in an ever shorter time period, all while making it flexibly available.

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Project Bliss

MARCH 6, 2018

Use This Simple Trick to Crush Your Presentation Nerves. Do you get anxious at the idea of giving a presentation? Do you avoid speaking in public due to presentation nerves? Whether you’re actively seeking ways to get more visibility for career growth, or you’ve been asked by your boss to give a presentation, getting in front of people can be scary. ?.

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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.

ActiveCollab

MARCH 6, 2018

We’ve already told you about what scope creep is and how to handle it. Now it’s time for the real world examples. Once again we turned to business owners and project managers of the world, with a single request: Would you mind telling us about your experience with scope creep, and what have you learned from it? We’ve selected the best answers and brought them to you - just so you know you are not alone.

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Appfluence

MARCH 8, 2018

It seems like in this day and age, women do it all. So much so, that sometimes it feels like it would feel great to drop everything and take a nice, long rest. To inspire you, we’ve put together a list of 10 highly productive and powerful women in business and analyzed their qualities and habits so that you can stay inspired and follow in their footsteps.

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Celoxis

MARCH 7, 2018

Productivity is a state of mind, but if you can’t get into that mindset then you can go days, weeks, or even months without making significant progress. You might get a decent amount of work done overall using this ebb-and-flow model, but that pales in comparison to keeping a consistent level of productivity and motivation. That’s where this article comes in.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 5, 2018

The Buzz Word Anti-fragile is tossed around lately by #NoEstimates advocates claiming that making estimate creates fragility to the work. Let's start with a definition of anti-fragile. Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile.

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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.

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Gunther Verheyen

MARCH 9, 2018

By the end of 2017 I updated the Scrum Glossary of my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013). A group of Scrum enthusiasts subsequently translated that updated version to different languages. The combined international versions are now available as a free download (PDF): Scrum Glossary (International versions) -March 2018. Share my gratitude that following people spent quite some of their valuable time on this initiative to make these translations available for you: Chinese (simp/trad) : L

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TimeCamp

MARCH 3, 2018

Effective Risk Management Using the tools created by the language of mathematics is an enormous.

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Brightwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Tell me if this scenario is familiar. You have lots of projects underway. You have many project managers, some trained and others not trained. Each one is using their own approach to project management. In addition, project plans are being managed in email and Excel with project documents are floating around in obscure file locations. I could go on, but I think you get the picture.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 4, 2018

Finance is a pure information processing game. A lot of people in the business are doing things that should be done by computers - David Shaw. Managerial Finance and Microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty is the foundation of project management processes. These two core processes require making estimates of the cost, schedule, risk, technical performance of the products and services, and the value produced by these outcomes in the presence of uncertainty.

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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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