Project Risk Coach

APRIL 22, 2016

Have you ever tried to address an issue and created a different problem? A response to risk can create other risks. These secondary risks may be more significant than the primary risks if we are not careful. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). One of the Pink Panther cartoon episodes pits the Pink Panther against a mouse in his house. The mouse was driving the Pink Panther crazy; he had to find a way to eliminate this problem.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 17, 2016

The April 2016 issue of PM Network provided updated project management capability findings from PMI’s 2016 Pulse of the Profession ® report. An unfortunate statistic is that only 38% of organizations are placing a high priority on creating a culture which recognizes the importance of project management. Organizational project management support can be either a blocker in lower maturity companies or an accelerator to project performance in higher maturity ones.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2016

I know you love free project management templates. As I’m celebrating 10 years of blogging about project management this year, here are 10 of the most-clicked free templates from this site. Enjoy! For even more free templates, ebooks, and checklists check out the Free Stuff page. Consider this. You’ve recently taken over a project that has. This month's free project management template is a Roles and.

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The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 22, 2016

Posted in Tools. [link]. Align your goals and improve your team comms with SMART standups with Jell – a great tool that gives you a central place (that can integrate with Slack) where team members can share daily plans, accomplishments, challenges and long-term goals remotely without another meeting. The post Jell – a great tool to align your goals and improve your team comms appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 20, 2016

If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Click here to learn about 12 mistakes that project managers make when responding to risks (and how to get it right). The post Are You Making This Mistake When Responding to Risks? [Video] appeared first on.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2016

This is a guest article from Paul Pelletier, PMP and author of Workplace Bullying – It’s Just Bad for Business. Paul Pelletier. Project managers establish and foster workplace behaviour expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Simply put – I believe that we learn from the examples set by those above. That leads to two clear choices: do you commit to a positive, respectful model for workplace culture or a disrespectful, bullying model?

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Herding Cats

APRIL 17, 2016

There's a meme going around in some parts of agile that management is inhumane. This is an extreme view of course, likely informed by anecdotal experience with Bad Management, or worse lack of actual management experience. Managing in the presence of Agile is not the same as managing in traditional domains. The platitude is Stewardship, but that has little actionable outcomes needed to move the work efforts along toward getting value delivered to customers in exchange for money and time.

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Fix my Project Chaos

APRIL 17, 2016

Trusted partners in business – Your PMO In this podcast, Elise speaks with Emma Arnaz-Pemberton from ERAP Consulting (PMO and P3O consultancy) to discuss PMO’s and how they can become trusted partners in business. Emma is a project, programme and portfolio specialist with extensive experience in the change management industry with a particular focus on […].

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Mike Clayton

APRIL 21, 2016

You’ve probably noticed the change of clothes for Shift Happens! I hope you like it. For twelve years now, my primary source of income has been live training and seminars. Most of that has been training project managers. After plenty of experimentation and strategising last year, I decided to commit to my biggest project for several years. […].

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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

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Deep Fried Brain

APRIL 16, 2016

What's the difference between Planned Value (PV) and Earned Value (EV) in Earned Value Management (EVM)? This is one of the most frequently asked question by people when they first come across.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 18, 2016

From Estimating Software Costs: Bringing Realism To Estimating , 2 nd Edition. Initial requirements are seldom more than 50 percent complete. Requirements grow at about 2 percent per calendar month during development. About 20 percent of initial requirements are delayed until a second release. Finding and fixing bugs is the most expensive software activity.

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Function Point

APRIL 19, 2016

The 3 KPIs To Get Your Creative Agency Process Back On Track. Metrics are critical to keeping track of how your agency is performing. They can be a reason to celebrate and they can also be an indicator of when things aren’t going to plan with your creative agency process. A little while ago, we published this post on KPIs for ad agencies , and today we’re giving you a few more to help you track the success of your creative agency process. 1.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 18, 2016

Please share one of YOUR project risks with us here at the Project Risk Coach, a supportive and friendly audience. Answer this question on my blog and join the discussion → The post Please share one of YOUR project risks with us here at the Project Risk Coach, a supportive and friendly audience. [Question] appeared first on.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 21, 2016

In the beginning, cost often matters most*: the greatest amount at stake and the most politically sensitive parameter understandable by all, specialists and lay persons alike In the middle, cost often takes a comparable priority to function; function has been promised and people have begun to count on it; there's less cost remaining at stake In the end, cost is set aside as the schedule and.

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Moira Alexander

APRIL 19, 2016

When you think of project managers, what skills come to mind?

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Function Point

APRIL 19, 2016

The 3 KPIs To Get Your Creative Agency Process Back On Track. Metrics are critical to keeping track of how your agency is performing. They can be a reason to celebrate and they can also be an indicator of when things aren’t going to plan with your creative agency process. A little while ago, we published this post on KPIs for ad agencies , and today we’re giving you a few more to help you track the success of your creative agency process. 1.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 22, 2016

At the moment I am managing multiple projects. In fact, I don’t know any project manager who is 100% dedicated to one project. Even when that has been me in the past, I’ve been managing big projects with multiple strands of work underneath that were as diverse as if they had been different projects. It’s hard. I know I am not the only one who struggles with how to stay on top of multiple projects.

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Fix my Project Chaos

APRIL 22, 2016

The selection this week is all about the world of Digital Project Management. The post Fresh Friday 22 April 2016 – 6 Dynamic Articles about Digital Project Management appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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PMStudent

APRIL 19, 2016

Every project manager faces at least one crisis in his or her career. Follow these tips and come out ahead.

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Stepping Into Project Management

APRIL 18, 2016

Overwhelmed with the to do list, promises, unending schedule and no time for you? It’s true for many.Sometimes you have to be make smart choices and know what makes a difference for you. Here are few that can help you re-think: Procrastinate to make decisions - Sometimes you can make the best of decisions when you have all the information you need. A hurried decision in most cases is always the wrong one.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 20, 2016

. Today I give the floor to Steve Wake, the man behind #EVA21 , the conference so cool it is known only by its hashtag*. In his own unique style he explains what makes this magical conference work every year, why you should deAgile yourself and how to tame the overwhelm with a single piece of paper. Steve Wake, Conference Creator Extraordinaire. EVA was first started as an event to raise awareness and profile for what we now know as Earned Value Management.

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Paymo App

APRIL 18, 2016

Managing time, cost, resources and quality is crucial to your business. The processes around those are critical to your success and the success of your clients. So why are you still putting your faith in spreadsheets? We’re not anti-spreadsheets. They are great for some types of data analysis like pivot tables. However, they aren’t great for managing projects.

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EarthPM

APRIL 20, 2016

…just not the one you are thinking of… Read about it here – you will “sea” that it’s actually pretty related to PM and “Sea-stainability” [link].

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