The Digital Project Manager
APRIL 9, 2018
So you’re a Project Manager. You’ve landed a great job at a digital advertising agency. The post Project Manager Responsibilities: Here’s What You Should Really Be Doing appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 8, 2018
GDPR is a once-in-a-generation update of our data protection regulations. And it has huge implications for people managing projects that store, capture or process personal data. GDPR projects abound at the moment; you might be involved in one yourself. But beyond the setting up of GDPR principles in your business, what does GDPR look like for project management?
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Entry
APRIL 11, 2018
Artist's have their brush and paint. Journalist's have their pen and paper. Carpenter's have their hammer and nails. What do project managers have? The post Four Essential Tools for a Good Project Manager appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 10, 2018
Presently, the economic climate is ideal for both project managers who are looking to advance in their careers, and for those who have their sights on entering the field. There are great opportunities out there, and room for advancement. However, these opportunities won’t just fall in your lap. Enabling career growth can be considered a project of sorts, and therefore requires the same techniques, project management tools and dedication to schedules that would be involved when managing any
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Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.
Project Risk Coach
APRIL 9, 2018
Learn technical skills to accelerate your projects through requirements development How big of a deal are project requirements? The Project Management Institute says, “47% of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management.” – Requirements Management, A Core Competency for Project and Program Success. In his book — Just Enough Requirements Management — Alan Davis shares, “Various studies suggest that errors introduced during requir
Project Management Update brings together the best content for project management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Entry
APRIL 8, 2018
A flow chart is a visual representation of a plan or a process. They show steps, represented through boxes about a process that should be taken. Whether we realize it or not, flowcharts are used all around us, most commonly in the form of an algorithm. An algorithm is the more complicated version of a […]. The post Going With the Flow: Using Flowcharts in Your Business appeared first on Entry Software Corporation.
Kiron Bondale
APRIL 8, 2018
A key responsibility of Product Owners is ensuring that the order of work items in a backlog best achieves the goals and vision for the product. Unlike project portfolios where selection or prioritization decisions are often made by a governance committee, with a product backlog the responsibility for the business success or failure of the product rests on the Product Owner’s shoulders.
Workamajig
APRIL 9, 2018
If you're a project manager, developing and adopting project management best practices is likely one of your top priorities. This article will share a comprehensive list of best practices for project management every organization needs. Are you happy with your project performance? Do your projects usually come in under budget and ahead of schedule? If you’re like most agencies, your answer will likely be “no”.
Redbooth
APRIL 9, 2018
Agile project management is favored for its speed, but even teams that claim to have Agile values are not working that quickly. Just ask the Financial Times , a company that spent four years redesigning their media platform in a supposedly Agile way. When they realized the new product wasn’t a resounding success, they stopped working on it and had to start again.
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
Entry
APRIL 11, 2018
Artist’s have their brush and paint. Journalist’s have their pen and paper. Carpenter’s have their hammer and nails. What do all of these have in common? The tools associated with the profession are the golden standards for their practice. Although they are not required, (i.e an artist using a pencil or a carpenter using a drill) they are often used because of their effectiveness and reliability.
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 10, 2018
We have many words to describe a project in trouble—from “things have gone sideways” or “off-the-rails” to more graphic descriptions like “crash and burn.” The military has been a source of some lovely descriptions like FUBAR and SNAFU. The reason we have so many terms for projects not meeting the stakeholders’ expectations is because it happens so often.
Planview
APRIL 12, 2018
Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. New Zealand Government, like many other government agencies, was tasked with overcoming these obstacles to develop and manage project and investment portfolios to grow the economy to deliver greater prosperity, security, and opportunities for all citizens.
Ganttic
APRIL 8, 2018
Drag and drop scheduling is the act of creating resource schedules using a feature that allows you to start dragging a task where you want it to start on the timeline and release the click once you have reached the desired point ie where the task should be completed. Once you have released the click, you’ll have a task or a Gantt chart that starts and ends where you dragged and dropped it.
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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.
Entry
APRIL 8, 2018
A flow chart is a visual representation of a plan or a process. They show steps, represented through boxes about a process that should be taken. Whether we realize it or not, flowcharts are used all around us, most commonly in the form of an algorithm. An algorithm is the more complicated version of a flowchart where it uses calculations or other problem-solving operations in order to carry out tasks.
LiquidPlanner
APRIL 12, 2018
When Rob Welsh, a Development Process Manager at Lake Shore Cryotronics , went searching for a new project management tool, he was in the market for something that would help his team deliver projects on time and on budget. He wasn’t expecting a tool could do that and cut his admin time by two-thirds. But, in 2016, he implemented LiquidPlanner on his team’s projects, and that’s exactly what he got.
Paymo App
APRIL 13, 2018
You can’t always manage projects alone. Complex projects that involve a large number of resources, people, and processes could use a handy friend: project management software. Nevertheless, choosing the right project management (PM) tool can be a difficult and time-consuming task regardless of your budget or experience. If you’re not using PM software yet or you’re thinking of changing the one you’ve worked with so far, note that there are some factors to examine.
Online PM Courses
APRIL 9, 2018
One of the questions project managers most often ask me in training room is about personal time management. They want to know: ‘How can I manage my time, in the busy context of a project?’ For most project managers, we have learned all sorts of tools for managing the project schedule. But, when it comes to personal time management, all we have is a ‘To Do List’ This is a great too.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Workamajig
APRIL 12, 2018
Effective project management requires effective data. Learn how to collect, curate and use data from analytics in your projects in this article. =. This is a guest contribution from Chanell Alexander of TechnologyAdvice. com. You can learn more about her on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter. Everyone loves a good project management plan. There is nothing like an organized and well-thought-out project management dashboard or document that has all the information teams need to accomplish tasks on
Proofhub
APRIL 9, 2018
Who wants to be the next Richard Branson? At some point, we all crave to be like one of the successful entrepreneurs. But wait, do you even know what do people like Richard Branson (Virgin), Jeffrey Preston Bezos (Amazon), and Sara Blakely (Spanx) have in common? Their hard work and of course how well they are rewarded for the same. “Stay in the flow of working smartly by eliminating unnecessary efforts.
Scoro
APRIL 10, 2018
WORKFLOWMAX is well-known, Xero-owned project management software. It offers a variety of useful features such as time tracking, quoting, invoicing, but it is lacking project management features that most small businesses need: expense tracking, recurring invoices, task collaboration, etc. According to customer reviews, WorkflowMax’s user interface is also not that easy to operate.
Gunther Verheyen
APRIL 9, 2018
The many congratulations today reminded me of my most recent work anniversaries. April 2013, five years ago. I started Ullizee-Inc. It was a huge step to abandon my safe position at Capgemini, even when it was to move to the home of Scrum. April 2016, two years ago. Letting go of exclusively partnering with Ken Schwaber and working for Scrum.org was, if not just an even bigger step, certainly a more frightening one.
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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.
ActiveCollab
APRIL 11, 2018
As you might have noticed, there’s a lot going on on our blog lately. And as with all big decisions and changes, there’s usually a straightforward thought process behind it. Or, at least - there should be. One of the biggest changes was the new content strategy that we set in motion. The defining segment of our content strategy was a set of criteria all our future content needs to fulfill.
Proofhub
APRIL 11, 2018
Advancements in recent technology are shifting traditional approaches of nearly all business operations. Mobile devices, readily accessible internet, and the cloud are becoming increasingly relied upon for the ability of employees to work virtually from anywhere, at any time. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices are allowing for such maneuverability of workers that more and more companies are choosing to let their employees work remotely.
PM Basics
APRIL 10, 2018
“I do not have the technical skill to become a software development project manager.” I hear this all the time. However, here is a catch. No one expects you, as a project manager, to write code or set up servers. You do need to know the software development process, what goes into creating software applications. So, in fact, you don’t need to have skills.
PM by PM
APRIL 12, 2018
A CAPM certification training is one of the the most important ingredients for passing the credential exam. You can either join a CAPM online training course or join classes for the exam prep. I would suggest you to join an online training course as most of the exam prep will happen through self-learning and self-study. […]. The post Review of 6 Best Online Courses For CAPM Certification Training [Save$$] appeared first on PM-by-PM.
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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