Project Bliss

JANUARY 22, 2019

If you’ve been asked to complete a business process map it may feel overwhelming. You may have an idea of what that is, but you want to be sure you do it right. It’s not intuitive at first, but once you learn how, it’s much easier than you think. And k nowing how to create business process maps is useful in many situations. You’ll be able to provide a valuable skill for your team that can be used in many different situations.

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Planview

JANUARY 24, 2019

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. So far in this series, we’ve examined a number of ways to improve problems with project estimates. These problems, as mentioned, were cited by a large percentage of respondents in Planview’s resource management study as a primary cause of their resource management

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 22, 2019

Project Managers are among the most positive of people. Armed with our methods and tools , our boundless optimism and our can-do attitude, it sometimes feels like we can do anything. Yet the fact is, there are limitations. We must all face some uncomfortable truths. This is a personal perspective, so it may reflect my own insecurities, rather than yours.

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Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you say the word “risk” to ten people, each person may think of something different— insurance, threats, investments, bets, or potential loss. As we manage project teams, it's critical that you and your team members have a common understanding of what project risk means. Otherwise, people will be confused by your risk management efforts. It is no wonder that there is so much confusion about the meaning of risk.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 24, 2019

Without Metrics you're just another guy with an opinion - Stephan Leschka, Hewlett Packard* I get it; and mostly, I agree with Mr. Leschka BUT, there are a few other rules: Don't measure -- meaning: don't invest the effort to collect and analyze -- that which you don't manage Don't measure the unmeasurable -- meaning, don't assign false values and dimensions to that which is fundamentally.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2019

Information technology (IT) is no longer a tucked away department with little impact on day-to-day affairs. It’s big business that’s involved in almost every sector of the economy, and therefore carries some major risks. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the importance of IT risk management in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference!

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nTask

JANUARY 24, 2019

The word productivity embodies a multitude of concepts. Each person views productivity with relevance to different factors, both in terms of cause and effect. This is why what boosts productivity and how it impacts one’s life can be interpreted in more than one ways. In this blog, we have attempted to research and bring forth the concepts of everyday professionals and experts.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; and when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all? William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part2, I.iii,1598 First seen at heardingcats Buy them at any online book.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sub-title: Breaking the Iron Triangle. Sub-title #2: Jeff Sutherland’s book could have been called: “Scrum: Twice the decision-making in half the time leading to half the work and twice the output.”. A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle”. This, you can imagine, causes ripples through the Project Management community.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 23, 2019

You’ll reach a point in any job interview where you’ll be asked, “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” How do you respond—humorously? “My strength is being the best at everything, and my weakness is humility.” Or do you try to answer honestly? If you do try and take the question seriously, which you should, it’s not so easy. You want to be an advocate for yourself and share those big wins and skills that helped you rise in your profession, but you don’t want to come across as a blowhar

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 24, 2019

Every project manager will need to inspire a project team at some point in their career. The reasons may range from having an over-challenging project to being appointed to recover a failing project. Or, the reasons may be less daunting, and things are just business as usual. Whatever the circumstances, as a project manager you’ll need to apply a wide range of leadership and communications skills to inspire a team.

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nTask

JANUARY 21, 2019

Teamwork and collaboration hold a significant impact on a project, an organization, and the overall customer drive. Statistics have shown that teamwork boosts productivity and increases project success factors exponentially. The question is how to achieve teamwork? At the end of the day, we are all human beings and embody unique traits in preferences and peeves.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 24, 2019

In my career, I have had the great privilege to witness different companies undergo many different phases of agile transformations. I’ve met many amazing Scrum Masters along the way that have evolved to take on major responsibilities in their organizations. However, I have also seen many Scrum Masters who fall into common traps that impede the Scrum team, impede delivery, and inadvertently slow down their own career growth by falling into five common traps that I have identified.

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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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2019

Servant leader. That sounds pretty much like a contradiction in terms, but it is a profoundly important idea. Indeed, I’d argue that servant leadership the single most valuable approach to leadership. And it’s an approach that no leader can afford to ignore. To understand why, we need to ask a crucial question…. What is the Job of a Leader? Is it to lead?

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LiquidPlanner

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mentoring is known to have positive effects on career paths, both for new entrants to a role and for more experienced personnel. In a study by Gartner, over 5 years at Sun Microsystems, the results were startling. The analysis showed that 25 percent of people in the mentoring scheme had a salary grade change, compared to only 5 percent of people who weren’t in the scheme.

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PM Basics

JANUARY 22, 2019

Let me put this straight: Project planning is a challenging and complex activity. You need to apply knowledge and skills from all aspects of project management. You operate with an enormous amount of information. And let’s be truthful: You’ll race against the clock. Nevertheless, project planning is a structured and logical process. In this article, I’ll show you a proven workflow.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 23, 2019

How are you interacting with your employees today? Are you taking the time to make an authentic connection? Aae you taking the time in a variety of formats to have a true understanding of: Who they are? What they struggle with? What do they aspire to become? If you’re not, I would recommend you start taking purposeful time to make this happen. Like all of us leaders, we have a calendar full of meetings about strategy, governance, policies, etc.

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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 24, 2019

If you don’t think customer feedback is important, then you probably don’t have many customers. The relationship between a business and its customer base is the barometer of its well-being. If you’re losing touch with customers, then the business is in trouble. But the channels of communication between a business and its customers are often not clear.

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Online PM Courses

JANUARY 20, 2019

Today, over a million project managers use PRINCE2 in countries all over the world in public and private sector projects. It’s attention to rigor and good governance make it a popular standard for many organizations. This is one of our giant guides, in which we aim to answer all your basic question – in this […]. The post PRINCE2 Certification: Everything You Need to Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Proofhub

JANUARY 22, 2019

6 Steps Every Team Should Follow?—?A Project Management Guide for 2019 Project Management Defined Wikipedia defines project management as “ the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time. ” In simple words, it’s a process where a project manager plans, organizes and manages the efforts of his/her team in order to accomplish a successful project over a fixed period and

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Planview

JANUARY 22, 2019

The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. We’ve discussed how portfolio-driven performance improves project delivery, how and why you must align strategy, financials, and execution, and why the relationship between demand and project management is so important.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 20, 2019

As inspiration for this article, I Googled the phrase “Meetings are…” There were a lot of results, none of which were complimentary: Meetings are toxic Meetings are a waste of time Meetings are useless. Entrepreneur was even more blunt, calling meetings “one of the worst business rituals.” In one office where I used to work, you could actually hear the collective groan as people received their invite.

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ProProject Manager

JANUARY 22, 2019

Are you stuck in your project management career and looking for a new challenge? If so, I highly recommend exploring a career as a Digital Project Manager (DPM). . With businesses and organizations turning to the digital world to meet consumer and customer needs, this segment of the project management is growing and there is a need for DPMs that understand the digital landscape.

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Wrike

JANUARY 23, 2019

It’s Friday afternoon. You’ve checked in with your team, your projects are on target, and you’re prepared for next week. Your weekend’s looking bright. Suddenly, your boss comes to your desk with exciting news. You’ll be heading the next major multi-team project with a key client, and the kickoff is next week. This is great news, but now this specter looms over your weekend.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

JANUARY 24, 2019

Regular retrospectives are a popular part of Agile development methodologies. In contrast, large strategic projects, that don’t use Agile, tend to only be reviewed during the closure phase, when it’s too late to course correct and feed the lessons back into the project. There are many advantages of reviewing a project regularly, throughout its lifecycle.

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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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