Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 5, 2016
Tomorrow is National Poetry Day and I’m delighted to have probably the world’s greatest project management poet here with us today! Robert Prol’s haiku’s have been making me laugh for a long time. Here are 5 of his recent and most profound works for your enjoyment! Check out these other haiku that Robert shared with us last year.
Project Risk Coach
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Some organizations lack clarity about who approves the project change requests. On one project, the sponsor tells the project manager to make the decisions. On other projects, the sponsor makes the decisions. And yet, in other cases, senior management gets involved. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. Your project may morph into a two-headed monster without an integrated change control process, resulting in adverse impacts to schedule, cost, and scope.
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Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Running a database project? Want to be agile and try different stuff quickly? Here's some stuff you can use, and it only takes 6 minutes to learn a few things It's all about sorting "big data", to wit: millions of records. We've all sorted data on a spreadsheet -- a few thousand records at most -- but that happens at the blink of an eye. Big data takes a bit longer.
Kiron Bondale
OCTOBER 2, 2016
Psychological safety is a key ingredient in the formation of high performance teams. Empowerment, recognition, flexible work time or place arrangements and free food can all help but these amount to very little if team members feel afraid to be express vulnerability or to be themselves. But how do we know when a team feels psychologically safe? It is quite evident through team meetings, even to an outsider.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 3, 2016
‘Business acumen’ is one of those skills that you see on role profiles for jobs. It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. I believe that my success at working with senior stakeholders and on difficult projects is to do with business acumen.
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LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Lean manufacturing has become a popular way to eliminate waste, reduce costs and improve efficiencies. This philosophy originated, largely, at Toyota and is used to better align customer needs with manufacturing operations. The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity , a lean process doesn’t happen overnight.
Ganttic
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Companies usually have teams to complete important jobs in a much effective and faster way. A team means combined efforts, knowledge, energy, and skills, and if the people in a team are fully motivated, then they can accomplish anything that they would want to. If you want to motivate your team, here are some tips you can follow to help them be more driven and enable them to do their best every time.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Last month’s giveaway was a copy of Project Management for Supplier Organizations * – a book about what it’s like to be providing project management services to others. Congratulations to Shaylei from Clevedon, Ohio, USA who was drawn as the winner. Well done, Shaylei! Your book is in the post. * That’s an affiliate link, in case any of you who were unsuccessful want to buy a copy.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 4, 2016
Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man - W. B. Smith Infinitesimal Analysis. In the same book Burn Math Class and Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself , there is a joke that is applicable to the topic of this blog. As a psychology experiment, a mathematician is placed in a room with a sink, a cooking pot, and a stove.
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
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 5, 2016
There are many great reasons to love managing a small project team. For starters, your projects are generally shorter in duration and less complex, which means you have a better chance to make an impact. In addition, communication and team-building often improve when you’re working with a small-knit team because there are fewer people to oversee and coordinate.
Celoxis
OCTOBER 5, 2016
roject management tools obviously have a central role to play in addressing most of these challenges. Today project managers rely on PM tools for planning, task management, resource management, budget management, collaboration and analysis & reporting. It is therefore important to understand what project management software buyers are looking for.
Wrike
OCTOBER 5, 2016
. Event coordination can be a monster to take on. Whether it’s a trade show, conference, corporate event planning, sales kickoff, or even just a team outing, managing an event is a different from managing a project. Every event requires meticulous planning and collaboration, not to mention exceptional budgeting, resource allocation , and time management.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 1, 2016
For any closed loop control system ‒ let’s assume we want to manage our project with such a system ‒ has a signal representing the current state of the system. For software, this can be value produced (assuming we have a unit of measure for that value in the for of effectiveness, performance, key performance parameters, or technical performance measures ). https://goo.gl/DP6Jw is an overview of this process.
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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.
Project Management Hacks
OCTOBER 6, 2016
Image Credit: Pixabay.com. Managing vendors and procurement activities effectively has never been more important. Why? The drive to outsource activities and build more complex products means you need contributions from beyond your organization. Alas, project management isn’t like Amazon. There’s no “one click” buy button or overnight shipping when you’re building a bridge, submarine or a CRM implementation.
Celoxis
OCTOBER 3, 2016
INFOGRAPHIC: How Project Management Software helps Small Teams do Big Things.
BeeWits
OCTOBER 4, 2016
In today’s highly productivity-driven world, where successful project management is key, inspirational talks are all the rage in sparking motivation. TED talks in particular are widely shared throughout the web, and even offline, in classrooms and among friends. The platform allows professionals to speak on a variety of themes and topics that are in their scope.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 4, 2016
It's the economy, stupid - James Carville. This phrase is the basis of our failure when trying to fix dysfunctional conditions in any software technical domain. It's the basis of the principle of finding the root cause and stop treating the symptoms. If any proposed solution does not identify the root cause, the condition, and the action that produces the undesired effect, that proposed solution is at best treating the symptom, which will re-occur and at worst be ineffective at fixing anything.
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Musings on Project Management
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Probably the greatest benefit of working with game theory arises from evaluating the consequences of each game step. You do this. your consequence Your competitor or opposite number does something.
The Tao of Project Management
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The good project managers I have known have tended to be subtle, responsive and had a good knowledge of what was happening on their projects. The poor ones tend to rely on methods and techniques to try and stay on top of their projects and they have usually struggled. I am a great believer in the effective learning cycle. This is an iterative process that suggests we learn best if we go through four stages of the cycle: plan something, do it, reflect on how it worked and then draw conclusions fr
LiquidPlanner
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Photo credit: GeekWire. Recently LiquidPlanner CEO Liz Pearce sat down for a quick chat with entrepreneur-turned-podcast star, Nathan Latka. It’s a fascinating, rapid-fire conversation about how LiquidPlanner started, along with an overview of some of the critical business data points that Liz monitors on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Latka, a successful entrepreneur in his own right, launched and sold Heyo , a social marketing agency earlier this year.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 3, 2016
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results - Milton Friedman. When we hear any suggested corrective action for any supposed dysfunction, ask can you show me the testable results from your suggested change to the problem? Related articles. Doing the Math. Don't Manage By Quoting Dilbert.
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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.
Fix my Project Chaos
OCTOBER 3, 2016
Let’s talk about Project Portfolio Management In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to Michael Hannan, the founder and principal consultant at Fortezza Consulting, about Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Michael is a board member of the PMI Washington DC chapter. He started in PPM at NASA in the 1990s working on the International Space Station and […].
Proofhub
OCTOBER 6, 2016
In the last post we discussed about eight of the top tools available in market that you can use to solve your social media problems in quick time. Hope you have started using them, and are getting the benefits! Continuing the series, here we are with the remaining eight. So, without wasting any time further let us have a look at them - 1. Co-schedule headline analyzer Headline is the most important part of creating engaging content.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 3, 2016
The difference between failure and success is the difference between doing something almost right and doing something right. — Benjamin Franklin. Related articles. Just Because You Say Words, It Doesn't Make Then True. Architecture -Center ERP Systems in the Manufacturing Domain. IT Risk Management.
Herding Cats
OCTOBER 2, 2016
There are Nine Best Practices for success in enterprise Software Development. Here's a paper describing them and their use. Nine Best Practices from Glen Alleman. Related articles. Strategy is Not the Same as Operational Effectiveness. What Can Lean Learn From Systems Engineering? An Example of Complete Misunderstanding of Project Work.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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