Project Risk Coach
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
What’s your life calling? Frederich Buechner wrote that calling is “the place where your deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.” My greatest joy is teaching. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock. I got it honest, as we’d say in the South. My father taught farmers how to farm and my mother taught students high school chemistry.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
There’s a free comms template at the bottom of this post – scroll down! I remember that a few weeks after I started back at work after maternity leave, one of my long-time stakeholders sent a message to someone pretty high up in the business saying ‘project communication was so much better when Elizabeth was around’. It’s nice to hear people say I was doing something right, although it was a bit of a shame that she hadn’t realised I was already back at my desk.
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The Digital Project Manager
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
WorkBook is a powerful agency specialist project management software tool that’s designed to power an entire agency’s process. It’s a fully featured project management software suite. The post Tool Review: Workbook a full featured agile agency project management toolkit appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Musings on Project Management
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
I read a recent posting about agile from a very odd corner of the PM space for an agile conversation to be: CriticalUncertainties, a (conservative) blog about critical safety and failure (or fail safe) requirements in complex systems.
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LiquidPlanner
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
Are you grappling with a stubborn project management work issue? Ask Elizabeth! Email your question to: marketingteam@liquidplanner.com. Anonymity included. Dear Elizabeth : My company’s management team is talking a lot about the incoming Fourth Industrial Revolution , or Industry 4.0. I’m hearing a lot about how we’re going to have to increase productivity and flexibility in our processes.
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Digite
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Enterprise/ Portfolio Kanban has for some time provided a visual method of defining and managing portfolios in a much easier manner compared to traditional PPM tools. Kanban Boards can be set up at different levels of the organization to track a portfolio of initiatives, programs, or product releases and their underlying projects or work items can be visualized and tracked far more easily than ever possible traditionally.
Musings on Project Management
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Chapter 12 of my book, "Maximizing Project Value", posits game theory as tool useful to project managers who are faced with trying to outwit or predict other parties vying for the same opportunity. When John von Neumann first conceived game theory, he was out to solve zero-sum games in warfare: I win; you lose. But one of his students challenged him to "solve" a game which is not zero-sum.
LiquidPlanner
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
As a salesperson in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) space, I get to speak to executives who are shopping for new work management tools every day. They’re looking for ways to innovate and speed up their teams—it’s a theme of our times. I constantly hear the phrase “time is money” and in today’s fast changing business world , it’s never been so true.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
There is the misuse of the terms of statistics and probability in many domains. Politics being one. The #Noestimates advocates are another of the most prolific abusers of these terms. Here are the mathematical definitions. not the Wikipedia definition, not the self-made definitions used to support their conjectures. Estimates. An Estimate is a value inferred for a population of values based on data collected from a sample of data from that population.
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
Celoxis
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Project Management is serious business; it takes a perfect symphony of people, processes, tools and culture for a project to be successful. As complex as daunting as it can be, the project management discipline provides ample scope for those involved to have fun. With a simple change in perspective, Project managers can infuse fun into mundane day-to-day project management activities.
Redbooth
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
Work Together is a regular discussion with founders and CEOs about the people, processes, and technology that help today’s companies get work done. The Company. YURI: Before we describe “how,” let’s talk about “what.” What exactly does Insight Data Science do? JAKE: Insight is a professional education start-up that helps scientists and engineers transition to careers in data science , data engineering , health data and artificial intelligence.
Wrike
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
Maintaining spreadsheets is not the easiest or most effective method for managing a project. Still, should you find yourself relying on a workbook to track assigned tasks and overall team performance, it’s important to learn how to do if then statements in Excel. These logical functions test whether something is true or false by comparing an entered value and an expected one.
Herding Cats
DECEMBER 1, 2016
When you hear. #NoEstimates is a hashtag for the topic of exploring alternatives for making decisions in software development. That is, ways to make decisions with "No Estimates". Think about the conjecture. How would you assess a decision in the presence of uncertainty without making an estimate of the outcome of that decision. Since there is not deterministic data available about the future, even though you may have deterministic data from the past.
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The Tao of Project Management
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Projects teams tend to start out with boundless enthusiasm. They are going to change the world (or at least a small part of it) for the better. It’s usually as we get to the middle stages of a project that the problems start to emerge. The project manager’s role is to facilitate and clarify conflicts. But this is not something we get taught, it relies on common sense (which is difficult to teach) and traditional wisdom (which has to be gained).
Kiron Bondale
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Most companies have a fixed human and financial capacity for project work, especially if for internal work. Unless they hold a monopoly in their market, their ability to increase project portfolio funding is constrained by multiple factors including market growth opportunities, price sensitivity but to a great degree by their operating expenses. Assuming a fixed budget, the more the organization spends on keeping the lights running, the less is available to deliver change.
TeamGantt
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Just how crucial is empathy among project managers and professionals? Guest author Daniel Threlfall offers valuable knowledge on the importance of empathy.
Fix my Project Chaos
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Let’s talk about how to network Do you want to know how to network? We all know we should be networking. But how many of us are actually doing it regularly – and how many of us are doing it well? In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to digital marketing guru Ray Milidoni about how […]. The post Podcast 107 – How To Network appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.
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TimeCamp
NOVEMBER 26, 2016
Today we would like to share with you some interesting marketing tips. We are working hard (but smart!) at TimeCamp to make sure that all our clients get the product they need. The more satisfied they are with our software, the better are the reviews they give us. Many start-ups do not realize how important […].
PMStudent
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
Right now the truth is the team is behind schedule. They will work this weekend to catch up. But you are being asked for status NOW. What do you say? The post Fact NOT Fiction appeared first on PMStudent.
Hydra
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
{socialbuttons}. There are plenty of roadblocks organisations must overcome to deliver a consistently high level of service. These are the main challenges you’re likely to face.
Herding Cats
NOVEMBER 26, 2016
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knpowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. -- Lord Kelvin Popular Lectures and Addresses , 1889. Without numbers, without some means of assessing the situation, the outcomes, the impacts, any conjecture is of little use. .
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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.
TimeCamp
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Content marketing is based on clarifying the exact target group to which the message is directed – we call such group persona. If we do not specify the addressed, the messages won’t actually be directed to anyone. While “designing” the persona we should take into account the views and opinions of all the people in […].
Fix my Project Chaos
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Let’s talk about how to network Do you want to know how to network? We all know we should be networking. But how many of us are actually doing it regularly – and how many of us are doing it well? In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to digital marketing guru Ray Milidoni about how […]. The post Podcast 107 – How To Network appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.
The Tao of Project Management
NOVEMBER 26, 2016
Just realised I haven't posted anything for a month! Sorry about that but pressure of work at the day job (Treasurer of Topsham RFC) has been telling lately. Talking of which we had our first taster session of Walking Rugby at the clubhouse yesterday afternoon, great fun had by all and some good exercise, I was certainly feeling it by the end. Self Improvement There are any number of books and courses that promise to make you a better project manager, but of course no book or teacher can make yo
Tactical Project Management
DECEMBER 1, 2016
Project Management jobs continue to be on the rise! Check out 7 great tips on how to land your next PM interview. The post 7 Tips to Land Your Next Project Management Interview appeared first on Tactical Project Management.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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