Rebel’s Guide to PM
MARCH 8, 2017
Thanks again to everyone who took my stakeholder management survey at the end of last year. It’s been insightful reading through the challenges you have engaging people on your projects. Here’s what we found out…. Why Do You Do Stakeholder Management? Stakeholder management is something we talk about a lot in project management, but what drives people to do it?
Ron Rosenhead
MARCH 8, 2017
I was filing away action plans from a recent project management course and noticed the wording from one person who answered; stakeholder management is missing. He explained to the group that there are often issues in the ‘people aspects’ of project. He said this could be dealt with by undertaking a detailed stakeholder analysis and then putting into play some solid actions including more effective project communications.
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Project Risk Coach
MARCH 8, 2017
If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. This video is part of the 10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate online course. Click here to enjoy the entire course. The post 10 Things Successful Project Managers Never Tolerate: Ineffective Risk Management [Video] appeared first on.
Project-Management.pm
MARCH 5, 2017
As the business industry evolves, organizations are looking for ways to keep up with the changes, creating new projects and establishing solutions and innovation to secure their foundation among existing organizations. New project mean managing more people, tools, resources, and implementing more successful processes. It’s sometimes hard for organizations to keep up with these, hence the need for establishing a PMO , a standard structure to help projects have a constant process and operation to
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The Digital Project Manager
MARCH 9, 2017
Unito connects and synchronizes apps like Jira, Asana, Github and Wrike, allowing you to coordinate multiple projects, regardless of the system they’re in so that everyone. The post Unito – connect and synchronize your project managment apps appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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LiquidPlanner
MARCH 7, 2017
Curious to see how other teams use LiquidPlanner? Our friends at Cognex showed us how LiquidPlanner helps them innovate and stay ahead of the curve. Cognex is in the business of industrial machine vision. They are the world’s leading provider of vision systems, vision software, vision sensors, and industrial ID readers used in manufacturing automation.
Project-Management.pm
MARCH 4, 2017
Managing a project do have its perks, but usually, it’s almost a never-ending journey towards implementing processes and team assignments. Projects are usually a complicated process to tackle due to its tendency to change out of the blue, coupled with unforeseen risks that seem to pop out everywhere. Here’s the thing; always be ready run some basic questions every time you are planning the project and during its implementation process.
Redbooth
MARCH 10, 2017
Here at AeroFS, our dev team uses a flexible agile development approach. It allows us to build quickly and stay on schedule so we can hit our release goals. Amium engineering team during a daily standup. When we set out to develop the next release of our Amium collaboration platform, we combined agile development techniques with Amium itself to make it easier for our non-development teams—product design, marketing, customer success, and sales—to deliver feedback and stay synched with the “back-e
Herding Cats
MARCH 4, 2017
Let's say you're the project or program manager of a large complex system. Maybe an aircraft, or a building, or an ERP system deployment. Your project is valued in the 100's of millions of dollars. Or say your project is s simple straight forward set of activities. Maybe the planting of a new row of trees on your land, or remodeling your kitchen. . No matter the project, the domain, the product or service, there are Five Immutable Principles of project success.
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
Wrike
MARCH 8, 2017
. Did you wake up one morning and say to yourself, “I want to become a project portfolio manager!” but have no idea where to begin? . If you did, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll dish out all the details on becoming a project portfolio manager, including examples of job descriptions and salary ranges. . While there are several types of project management roles and methodologies out there, they all overlap in some way.
Project-Management.pm
MARCH 6, 2017
Project managers have to be almost everything the organization’s needs—flexible, quick-witted, knows how to manage time and resources—it’s an endless list of skills and capabilities. At the end of the day, they are human and they have their own limits. Team members need to have certain skills and traits to be considered in their role. And there are project leaders who have a hard time molding their talents into their full potential.
Redbooth
MARCH 9, 2017
What we learned from the launch of Amium. When you’re preparing to formally launch your first product—there’s a lot to think about. When we launched Amium, we’d already launched one product. But with more employees, a shift in market focus, and more on the line, it was a different experience. Here’s what we learned. Get Organized. We ate our own dog food , so the saying goes.
Herding Cats
MARCH 5, 2017
The common definition of the Definition of Done in agile software development is (mostly from the Scrum Alliance and other official Scrum sites): A simple list of activities (coding, comments, unit testing, integration, release notes, design documents, etc.) that add verifiable and demonstrable value to the product. Very simple definition of done can be encapsulated as follows: Code Complete, Test Complete, Approved by Product Owner.
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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.
ActiveCollab
MARCH 7, 2017
When you start to grow your business, you’re going to do a lot of hiring. Hiring will no longer be a rare activity you do once every 3 months. Instead, it will be a constant process of attracting new candidates, figuring out who’s the best, and keeping the talent pipeline full. You can no longer just post an ad and hire the first decent candidate that applies.
TimeCamp
MARCH 9, 2017
If you plan to start a business or already own one, you should be aware of the fact how challenging it is to manage it well. Apart from controlling whether the tasks and projects are finished on time, you have to pay attention to what your team member are doing, what your clients are expecting, […].
GanttPRO Project Management
MARCH 9, 2017
Project Management – the use of knowledge, skills, methods, tools and technologies for the implementation of the project in order to achieve or exceeding the expectations of the participants. Project […].
Herding Cats
MARCH 10, 2017
Planning is an unnatural process, it’s much more fun to get on with it. The real benefit of not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by months of worry. ‒ Sir John Harvey Jones. And of course . . and. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
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Brightwork
MARCH 8, 2017
If you’ve ever worked in a company with dated technology, you know how this can be frustrating. Still, when most employers think of boosting morale, they think of things like team-building exercises and extracurricular activities. These things usually provide some lift, but their effects are likely to be temporary in the absence of adequate technology.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 9, 2017
Is customer satisfaction one of your project metrics. Good grief, I hope so! If not, you might want to consider this little ditty: . “If the customer is not satisfied, they may not want to pay for our efforts. If they are not successful, they cannot pay. If they are not more successful than they already were, why should they [pay]?” Niels Malotaux Paraphrased a bit.
GanttPRO Project Management
MARCH 9, 2017
Project Management – the use of knowledge, skills, methods, tools and technologies for the implementation of the project in order to achieve or exceeding the expectations of the participants.
Herding Cats
MARCH 8, 2017
It's popular to speak about the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Principles of Agile. When we hear that the next big thing in agile is Not Estimating, let's look to see how those 12 Principles can be applied without those estimates? . 12 Principles of Agile. How estimates help implement these principles. Without estimates what is missing. 1. Satisfy customer with continuous delivery of value.
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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.
The Digital Project Manager
MARCH 7, 2017
How much do digital project managers earn? What’s a typical digital project manager salary? And while we’re asking, what are the average salaries for a. The post How much do digital project managers make? A digital project manager salary overview appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Musings on Project Management
MARCH 6, 2017
I've always subscribed to the notion that the top three things for a PM to do are: Communicate often Communicate effectively Communicate widely Perhaps I should have made "effectively" the first thing on the list.
Kiron Bondale
MARCH 5, 2017
This is the opening weekend of Logan , the last X-Men film featuring Hugh Jackman and Sir Patrick Stewart in their respective roles as Wolverine and Professor Xavier. In honor of their farewell performances which skills might we wish to adopt from the mutants? We’d want Wolverine’s adamantium-like strength and rapid healing abilities to bounce back from the issues and unexpected challenges which emerge on our projects.
Herding Cats
MARCH 9, 2017
DeMacro made this post, which has been picked up by the agile community to mean estimating is a waste. . My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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