Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Today's quote: Here's a quotation that is a favorite of mine drawn from Fred Brooks, Jr.'s "The Mythical Man-month" "It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, supported by little data, and certified chiefly by the hunches of the managers" Bookmark this on Delicious.

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Zen Project Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

I came across another interesting idea in Change By Design. It was presented as Toyota's ideas around training and had 4 principles: There is no substitute for direct observation Proposed changes should always be structured as experiments Workers and managers should experiment as frequently as possible Managers should coach, not fix This idea of experimenting caught my attention.

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Susanne Madsen

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Working with geographically dispersed teams is becoming more widespread and is no longer a new phenomenon. Technology allows us to work from wherever it makes the most sense, and economic pressures are forcing corporations to make use of teams that are located in cheaper cost centers. But although there are good arguments for working with remote teams, it isn’t always straightforward to make them work as effectively as co-located teams – not least when they are subjected to different

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Wrike

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

We talk a lot on the Wrike blog about businesses needing tools to get their act together. But it’s not just construction companies, software development teams, and marketing agencies that have to organize their work to be efficient. T here is also a large community of creatives using online project management software to coordinate their projects.

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Musings on Project Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Counting, positioning, or measuring: what's in a number? Remember pre-school or kindergarten: we all "learned our numbers". Ah! but did we? Want to count something? Just use the integers, starting at 0 and going in familiar step: 1, 2, 3. The count takes on the dimension of what you are counting: dollars, inches, meters, liters, etc You can do arithmetic on count, but because of the.

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Brett Harned

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

“How did I get here?” It’s a question many project managers ask themselves. Most of us fell into this. One job led to another, then maybe we realized that we were good at organizing rather than designing or coding. The term the industry uses is “accidental project manager,” but that sounds a tad too aimless to me. You see, we may have fallen into this, but it sure as hell was no accident.

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The Tao of Project Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

I read an interesting article the other day on project failure and its relationship to complexity. It defined complexity as three factors: Structural (how big the project is/how many bits it has); Dynamic (how fast things are changing during the project); and Socio-Political (how much people and politics interfere). It is fairly obvious to see that the higher these three factors are the more likely the project is to run into difficulties.

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The Digital Project Manager

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Posted in General. [link]. Everyone knows manual processes don’t scale and inconsistent communication leads to work execution problems. Register for this webinar to hear project management best practices from an industry expert and see how Newell Rubbermaid is putting those ideas into action to modernize its IT project and work management approach. The post Webinar 2/25/16: Primer on Successful Project Management appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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TeamGantt

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Today's remote workers face a challenge: How to work from home and get stuff done. Learn these secrets from the pros!

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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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Fix my Project Chaos

JANUARY 31, 2016

About This Podcast: In this podcast procurement guru William Pegg, Founder and Director at Synthesis Group provides an in-depth insight into how project managers can leverage value from suppliers and ultimately bring real value to organisations. William has procurement industry experience across FMCG, agribusiness, heavy industry, health care, oil and gas and government agencies.

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PM for the Masses

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Note by Cesar: This is a guest post by Shikha Menwal. Shikha is a writer at ProofHub. Her academic credentials include a bachelor’s degree in computer sciences. From lifestyle, to technology, and management, etc. she has written about myriad of industries in her writing career during the last three years. Being productive at work is a […]. The post Are You Too Busy To Be Productive?

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Brett Harned

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

“How did I get here?” It’s a question many project managers ask themselves. Most of us fell into this. One job led to another, then maybe we realized that we were good at organizing rather than designing or coding. The term the industry uses is “accidental project manager,” but that sounds a tad too aimless […].

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PM by PM

JANUARY 31, 2016

Incentive Calculation in a FPIF Contract In my previous post, I described Fixed Price Incentive Fee Contract (FPIF). In this article, I will discuss the formulas and incentive calculations for an FPIF Contract. Let me summarize the basic nature of the contract before getting into formulas and calculations. The basic nature of a FPIF Contract […].

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Fix my Project Chaos

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Here are 6 of the best articles that caught my attention this week; The post Fresh Friday 05 February 2016 -What Caught My Attention This Week appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Leantime - Project Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

If you’ve seen the television show Shark Tank, you may have some idea of what an entrepreneur could look like. Successful entrepreneurs are like “swimming with sharks.” There’s something to learn from this idea of sharks – the investing entrepreneurs have been thought of as predatory, conquering, and large in their target markets and business practices.

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