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SPM 026 | Self-Assessment of Aspiring Project Manager Jared Coffin

SensiblePM

Jared took the Myers Briggs personality test and SWOT self-assessment in an effort to help understand those things that he should focus on as he becomes a project manager. During the Podcast. During this episode Naomi Caietti and I review the self-assessment results of these two test. As a result of the Myers Briggs test we discover that Jared is identified as an INFP personality.

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It’s Time to Start Slacking

Brett Harned

I’ve said it tons of times: we LOVE to talk about tools, but rarely do the tools universally work for teams. Well, folks, I think I may have to eat my words. As a consultant, I get to peek in on other people’s toolset, and I’m finding more and more that people are adopting Slack, a […].

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The Australian Outsourcing Offshoring Fiasco

quantmleap

F or many years we have been indoctrinated to believe that ‘outsourcing’ and ‘offshoring’ are good for us: It provides access to cheaper and equally qualified resources; It reduces the cost of delivery thus resulting in lower total cost of ownership and better financial bottom line for the company; It is easier to ramp up and ramp down; It increases human resourced flexibility; It allow a company to focus on its core business processes while shifting non-core business fun

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Your CRM Implementation Is Going To Fail

Troubled and Failing Project

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) implementations fail at an alarming rate. For the last fourteen years, numerous independent parties have come up with the same dismal statistics. In fact, your implementation probably will not meet your goals either. The graphic above does not bode well for anyone heading out on that journey. To be sure, configuring the software is significantly more difficult that it appears at first glance.

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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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Fresh Friday 25 September 2015 – What Caught My Attention This Week

Fix my Project Chaos

Here are the blog posts and articles that caught my attention this week; The post Fresh Friday 25 September 2015 – What Caught My Attention This Week appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Top 15 Efficiency Hacks When on Move- Pt 1

Stepping Into Project Management

If you have been reading the blog you know that I have been travelling every week for the last 5 months. I split my time between 2 cities and I am constantly on the move. Juggling travelling with my life honestly hasn't been easy. Here's couple of things I have been using/trying out to keep me going: 1. Travel light - Over the months I have learned to pack light and keep pieces that multitask and stick to basics and not overload with items I will barely use. 2.

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Why Do Projects Fail Miserably (Infographic)

Ganttic

Project management tools are great for the use of one single project. But with multiple projects in hand? That requires more than brains and skills to juggle. Multi-project management calls for a good resource planning tool. When using a resource planning software, you are allowing yourself to focus on the project in a more efficient way. In our last post , we put together an infographic on project success rate in small and large projects.

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Podcast 60 – Is Project Perfectionism Causing You Stress?

Fix my Project Chaos

About This Podcast: Are you a perfectionist? Do you sometimes struggle to complete important tasks while concentrating completing tasks to perfection? Let John Hinwood from Stress to Strength guide you on why you should focus on excellence rather than perfection. Points Raised in the Podcast: Embrace excellence rather than perfectionism In attempting to be perfect […].

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