LiquidPlanner
APRIL 19, 2018
Until recently, popular opinion said that project managers’ experience levels and IQ were the best indicators of project success. But this perception is changing. These days, it’s more generally accepted that straight-up intelligence is only part of the success card. Now, PMs and leaders need a high degree of emotional intelligence (EQ), too. Signs of Emotional Intelligence.
Project Bliss
APRIL 16, 2018
You’ve just been tagged as the team’s project manager. And while some people might be excited about the role, it’s not something you’d planned on. You didn’t sign up for this. You’ve never studied even the basic project management steps. And despite the fact that many people are struggling to move into project management, you weren’t even trying.
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Kiron Bondale
APRIL 15, 2018
The Manifesto for Agile Software Development gave us four values supported by a dozen guiding principles. While methodologies or practices can be domain specific, taken as a whole, the Manifesto’s values and principles can be applied to almost any industry or domain to deliver customer value in an efficient, people-focused manner. But there is one more value which might have helped to avoid some of the failures attributed to agile transformations – agility over agendas.
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 16, 2018
If you’re looking to become an IT project manager, Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains the job description, skills, qualifications, path and training involved. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Become an IT Project Manager: If you want to become an IT project manager, Jennifer said she’s happy to hear that because that means you are motivated and have a specific goal.
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Rebel’s Guide to PM
APRIL 16, 2018
The world of project management knowledge sharing is changing. I’m delighted to be partnering with CornerThought lessons learned software for this article. It is hard to capture lessons learned in project management. Actually, it’s not. It’s very easy to capture lessons learned. It’s very difficult to find helpful lessons that you can apply to your projects right now.
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Green Project Management
APRIL 16, 2018
GPM Global is delighted to announce the publishing of the Second Edition of the Sustainable Project Management: The GPM Reference Guide. The guide is 156 pages and is available on Amazon in both paperback and electronic Kindle formats. Sustainable project management is a rapidly growing discipline. With changing expectations of consumers and investors and the […].
ProjectManager.com
APRIL 17, 2018
Nearly everybody dreads a performance review, and for good reason. Those employees that still have to endure them find that they’re daunting to prepare for and difficult to execute. Due to the unpopularity, and sometimes inefficacy, of the performance review, many companies have abandoned that nervy review process in favor of always-on, real-time dashboards that show managers how team members are doing every minute of every day.
Musings on Project Management
APRIL 18, 2018
If you follow this blog you've read several references to the project balance sheet. So, is this about accounting? Yes, and no: Yes, it's about a double entry tool to keep track of "mine" and "yours", but no, it's not the accountant's tool used in your father's accounting office. Take a look at this figure: What have we got here?
Workamajig
APRIL 18, 2018
The Critical Path Method (CPM) is one of the most important concepts in project management, and certainly among the most enduring. This beginner-friendly guide will help you understand the Critical Path Method and apply it in your projects. For a project management technique, the Critical Path Method has quite an illustrious history. Early iterations of the Critical Path Method can be traced all the way back to the Manhattan Project in the early 1940s.
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
APRIL 17, 2018
Project methodologies often have a template to initiate a project or checklists to ensure a project is ready to pass a tollgate or a formal project milestone. If you look at your company’s own methodology, you will likely find a lot of templates for your project. Despite all these templates, few methodologies have a checklist for project turnover. Project turnover should be minimized, but project manager changes are a reality.
Planio
APRIL 18, 2018
Now more than ever, it’s clear that the defining driver of the online economy is personal data. Giants like Facebook and Google have built billion-dollar businesses on knowing what you want to see and giving advertisers access to that information. But it’s not just them. Pretty much every online business (yours and ours included) collects and uses personal data in some way.
Ganttic
APRIL 15, 2018
While other antiquated office practices – faxing, sending documents by post, filing paper and smoking in the office – have become pretty much extinct, somehow the use of Excel spreadsheets in the resource planning world is still going strong. Bizarrely, in the digital age, many managers are attempting to do the important job of allocating their teams, equipment, and facilities using Excel, along with a haphazard combination of emails, wall charts, whiteboards, and notebooks.
Paymo App
APRIL 17, 2018
No successful business has grown overnight. Behind every great product or service lies a strong team that has put thousands of hours into developing it. But the road to success is not always easy. Ideas can fail at any time, budgets might be limited, and the clock is always ticking for entrepreneurs to deliver outcomes quickly. If you find yourself in the same shoes and need to make sure you’re on track with your projects, then monitor their progress.
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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.
Digite
APRIL 20, 2018
Continuing our theme of facilitating Scrum and Kanban, we’re honored to publish another guest blog post by Dave White on ‘Kanban and Scrum Together – Not So Fast’. Here Dave white has shared his thoughts on the article ‘Kanban and Scrum Together’ written by Steve Porter. Hope you enjoy reading it! KANBAN AND SCRUM TOGETHER – NOT SO FAST. A colleague of mine who works at Scrum.org now posted a blog about how Kanban and Scrum are stronger together.
Redbooth
APRIL 18, 2018
Your company or client is excited to bring an awesome new feature or product to market but is so eager to get started building, they don’t want to spend the time thinking about how the project will actually get done. Many teams skip this crucial step in project management: proper project planning. When you plan the best path from original idea to completed project, you’re making sure your team has the tools and direction to be successful.
Planview
APRIL 16, 2018
Product managers have an increasingly difficult job. They not only need to listen and understand customers, operations, markets, sales, and engineering, but they then must make difficult decisions that require communicating and guiding the organization to embrace trade-offs made across conflicting priorities. Product managers carry this responsibility from idea to delivery, bringing cross-functional teams together and aligning diverse functions.
Agile Coach
APRIL 19, 2018
A friend of mine asked me on twitter what my 3 main things I’ve learned teaching my Lean Change Agent workshops and what the main takeaways from attendees were. It’s a bit hard to answer this in a tweet, or even a serious of tweets, so here goes. How this Post is Constructed. Context : it’s important to understand what triggered me to move away from agile, and into org change.
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Proofhub
APRIL 17, 2018
A project has many elements?—?time, money, people, and scope. On the top of it, you have deadlines, budgets, and risks to take care of. Even if one of them falters, the project is meant to be doomed. Maybe that’s why only 2.5% of companies successfully complete their projects. Having a project management system could dramatically reduce your chances to fail at project planning as it helps you define a structured workflow, better planning, and effective management of resources.
ActiveCollab
APRIL 19, 2018
I will presume that you are not working for a world-class company and you don’t possess an annual marketing budget of a few million dollars. I’ll let you in on a secret: neither do we. I will also presume you are here to pick up some useful tips on how to better organize your overall link building process. Link Building is an integral part of our SEO strategy and it should be a part of yours.
Paymo App
APRIL 16, 2018
Producteev was a task management software for individuals and teams that offered advanced task management and collaboration features. The product will be shut down on May 11, 2018. It seems there’s no official announcement from Jive, the company that bought Producteev back in 2012. While we don’t know why this is happening (which is pretty weird), there will probably be thousands of freelancers and companies that have used it and will need a Producteev alternative.
Teamweek
APRIL 18, 2018
Do you ever wonder how other people get so much done? You’re not alone! Most of us are constantly looking for time management tips to improve our productivity and help us get more done without feeling more overwhelmed. These 15 time management tips may sound simple, but don’t underestimate the impact they can have on your productivity. 15 Time Management Tips to Improve Your Productivity.
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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.
Proofhub
APRIL 16, 2018
Building great teams doesn’t end at hiring a self-confessed team player but also having the capability to deliver more than the sum of their parts. Therefore, there is a need to focus on building high-performance teams. A lot of managers do a little to highlight team performance. A leader needs to build a team to execute the projects flawlessly. Keep your teams more engaged and more productive.
Herding Cats
APRIL 14, 2018
There's a popular phrase in some parts of the agile community that goes like this. We focus on value production, not delivery. This willfully ignores the principle of all business decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Software development is a Value Creaton activity, but Value cannot be determined unless we know the cost to produce that value and when that value will be available for use by those who of paid for that Value.
ActiveCollab
APRIL 19, 2018
We never really planned to become digital nomads and build a business around it. It all came together when Feli wanted to escape her 9-5 job again and planned to travel through Southeast Asia. At the same time, after quitting his job in a start-up company, her boyfriend Marcus was about to start his own business as a freelancer. So, they started traveling together and working on the go.
Teamweek
APRIL 18, 2018
Having your projects planned and outlined on your desktops is just fine. But if you’re anything like us (or most of the people for that matter) chances are you aren’t that shy about punching out your smartphone in the office every now and then. Whether it’s about reading e-mails or striking up that conversation on messenger, it’s nice to have your needs fulfilled on the go.
Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar - Sopheon’s Director of Product Management
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