Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

“I am convinced that stakeholders must always impact upon the way we manage our projects,” writes Louise M. Worsley in Stakeholder-led Project Management: Changing the Way We Manage Projects. “I hope I can convince you.”. I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. She goes on: Stakeholder management is not a series of steps to be gone through, but a perspective that when fathomed and its implications understood, always

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Musings on Project Management

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Some years ago I picked up this nice summary image of agile planning over several time cycles. It came from a white paper at AgileConnection.com " entitled "Scaling Agile Processes: Five Levels of Planning Fortunately, to give some credibility to his thesis, the author says right up front that agile methods don't scale to enterprise level without some changes!

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Kiron Bondale

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

We’ve all learned the standard risk responses to threats (accept, avoid, mitigate or transfer) and opportunities (accept, exploit, enhance or share) from the Guide to the PMBOK, and Dr. David Hillson recently wrote about a ninth possible response of risk escalation. But these nine only represent a recommended set and hence aren’t inclusive of what we see practiced on projects every day.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Why is scope management so difficult? What enemies cause us scope issues? Let’s first consider the essence of scope management: “to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully,” according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Let’s take a look at each part of this statement.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

This article contains affiliate links. BrainBOK: Project Management Training Online. Name: BrainBOK. Hosting options: Online only. Cost and plans: There’s a free version to allow you to test out a limited number of features. The PMP® pack including all the practice exams and the important proof of your 35 contact hours for your PMP® application is $99.99.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Long ago, in a city not far away, I worked for a very profitable company that got its start in the garage of one of its founders. We had grown to about 120 people with worldwide sales. Our products were the undisputed gold standard of the field. The employees were well paid and generally quite content. What’s not to like? But if you looked closer, there were some problems.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Here's how we manage risk on our software intensive system of systems using Agile. . Risk management requires making estimating of the reducible and irreducible uncertanties that create risk. If you're not estimating these uncertanties and their impacts, you're not managing as an adult. Related articles.

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Green Project Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

“Even the dogs may eat of the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table; and in these days, when the rich in knowledge eat such specialized food at such separate tables, only the dogs have the chance of a balanced diet.” Sir Geoffrey Vickers, 1965 Transitioning to the New Reality for Project Managers In […]. The post The Evolution of the Project Management Profession appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Amium is a collaboration tool for teams of any size and function. We think the way design teams collaborate on files makes them great for early adoption and the UX community is a great forum for getting feedback. Since our launch of Amium in August, we’ve seen a noticeable response from the design community and decided to dip our toes in sponsoring a conference for web designers.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Just listened to Tony Richards "The Capital Role of Scrum" in Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast (yes I know, this is Vasco's podcast and it does have value when he sticks to Scrum topics). Vasco describes the scrum Master as the Scrum Mom. . This brings to mind a concept we (wife and me) came to a bit late in our child raising experience. We encountered Parenting with Love and Logic a bit late - middle school.

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TimeCamp

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

We are presenting a new type of blog post that perhaps with time will develop into series – Learning with TimeCamp. Today you will learn what is Agile Software Development. We tried to gather some important information on Agile and share them with our readers. We hope they will be educational and useful =] Enjoy! […].

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Musings on Project Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

First, we have "Brooks Law", as given in the classic case study "The Mystical Manmonth" by Dr. Fred Brooks: "Adding staff to a late project makes it later" I was no more thinking about that idea, than I read this missive in a history of the Civil War that I am engaged with: “The veterans looked across the open ground at the newcomers with complete and unconcealed skepticism and hostility.

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The Digital Project Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Remote project management is growing in popularity but how can we make projects a success and empower our team to thrive when we’re not face. The post Remote project management strategies: How to keep the human touch appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The paper Agile Base Patterns in the Agile Canon , Daniel R Greening, 2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences is an important contribution to the discussion of agile at scale in organizations beyond 5 developers at the table with their customer. The Agile Cannon is composed of 5 elements. Measure Economic Progress. Plans don't guarantee creative success - creative efforts operate in an economy - as system where people manage limited resources to maximize return and growth.

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TimeCamp

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

TimeCamp and MeisterTask – what does it offer? MeisterTask is an online project and task management tool designed to be as helpful as possible in the project management process. It equips you with a set of features that provide aid when it comes to monitoring the progress of your projects or helping the team members to […].

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Unfortunately, many people think of the project charter as an administrative hoop they must jump through to get their project approved. Therefore, many charters are written hastily with little thought. The value of the charter process is engaging stakeholders, discussing the issues, resolving conflicts, and getting agreement as you initiate the project.

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Binfire

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Project managers will not find in any text books about project management that they need to bring real passion to work for the success of their projects. That is too bad, based on my experience and experiences of many colleagues, all successful projects have one thing in common. In these projects, project managers and their teams feel very passionate about their projects and care greatly about their outcome.

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Long ago there were a set of small books from the Software Program Managers Network and Norm Brown's work on Industrial Strength Management Strategies , which was absorbed by an organization which is no longer around. I have all the Little Books and they contain gems of wisdom that need restating in the presence of the current approaches to software development and hype around processes conjectured to fix problems.

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TeamGantt

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Juggling and organizing multiple projects can be a challenge. TeamGantt offers 7 easy tips for managing multiple projects efficiently so you can keep clients happy.

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Celoxis

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Many businesses rely on hard skills in production and servicing their customers. By “hard skill,” it refers to tangible and measurable abilities. However, to ensure the success of a project, soft skills matter a great deal. It would be impossible to manage a team without any soft skills. Moreover, gratitude is one of the most overlooked. Yes, being grateful is also a skill.

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Fix my Project Chaos

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Let’s talk about how to facilitate great meetings Jenny De Lacy has spent her fair share of time in big, bad and boring meetings. In this podcast, she speaks with Elise Stevens about how to facilitate great meetings. Jenny has cut her teeth over two decades in IT project teams, running team improvement and outcome […]. The post Podcast 105 – How to facilitate great meetings appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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TimeCamp

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Most of us probably experienced the moment in our life when the list of “to-do” things was much wider than the number of “done” tasks. Our minds are constantly overloaded with various assignments and dealing with them efficiently, and we don’t always manage to do that. But thanks to the modern technology we don’t have […].

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Gina Abudi PM

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Hello Samuel – Groups are often defined as individuals who are working together, but not necessarily toward a common goal. They are simply a number of people considered to be together – such as a group of financial advisors or a group of leaders in an organization. They are likely working as individuals. They share, however, common traits, interests,or characteristics.

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LiquidPlanner

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”. – Mike Tyson. Project plans exist for a reason. And while your odds of success improve if you actually use them, plans are all too often consigned to the rubbish bin during the execution stage of a project. Why? Even the most meticulously crafted plans get tossed aside because they struggle (and often fail) to deal with change and uncertainty.

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