Project Risk Coach

APRIL 15, 2019

Have you ever had someone torpedo your project? Did this individual have a motive to undermine your efforts? Or, did you make some stakeholder mistakes that gave rise to this event? Either way, it's hindering your progress. Things are not going as planned. What can we do to manage stakeholder risks better? A Stakeholder Story I once observed a junior project manager who was knighted to manage a project with a fixed regulatory deadline.

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Project Bliss

APRIL 14, 2019

Whether you’re new to your team or you’ve been leading them for months or years, it’s never too early or late to endear yourself. And finding ways to make your team love you is good not only for you. If done with integrity and honesty, it can boost morale, build trust, and make work happier for everyone. 5 Great Ways to Make Your Project Team Love You.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 14, 2019

Stage gates and Agile? To some, that might sound horrifying! Not exactly! One of my Agile Project Management students asked me about stage gates and agile. My first response was this: Agile is not a gated methodology, primarily because scope is viewed as emergent, and thus the idea of pre-determined gate criteria is inconsistent with progressive elaboration and emergence.

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Kiron Bondale

APRIL 14, 2019

In an earlier article I’d written about the pros and cons of a Scrum Master or agile lead having deep technical expertise in the solution space but what about a Product Owner (PO)? In their 2003 book, Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed , Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the well known acronym C.R.A.C.K. to describe the attributes of an effective PO and the K in that acronym stands for Knowledge.

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The Digital Project Manager

APRIL 16, 2019

Building a web portal? Join Rebecca Germond, Director of Client Services at digital agency FCV, as she discusses the tools, processes, and challenges specific to managing a portal build. The post DPM Podcast: Managing A Portal Build (With Rebecca Germond) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Inloox

APRIL 18, 2019

Time management methods are currently very popular. No wonder. Who doesn't want to work more concentrated and focused to complete more tasks? In this blog post we are going to talk about the time management methode Timeboxing. Timeboxing Definition Timeboxing is a technique that comes originally from project planning. Instead of spending as much time as necessary on a task, fixed time windows (timeboxes) including the final result are set in advance.

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Planview

APRIL 18, 2019

In my last blog, “ Agile Transformation: The PMO’s New Paradigm ” we covered the significance of embracing different types of work and the role that continuous planning plays in becoming an Agile PMO—but that’s only the beginning. In Part 4, we explore the trend of turning project-focused planning and delivery into a product-centric approach to enable an incremental approach to funding and to increase speed of delivery.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 18, 2019

In our last article, we quickly discussed the four key phases LiquidPlanner customers experience when they first begin using the product: onboarding, adoption, refining, and optimization. Then, we detailed the onboarding phase. Today, we’ll focus on adoption and how to gain insights into your team’s usage of LiquidPlanner. Adoption. After onboarding, we move into adoption.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 16, 2019

To Team or not to Team? The comparison between Kanban and Scrum obviously comes up often when we're talking to teams, especially in the context of Professional Scrum with Kanban. While they are more similar than many practitioners realize, one key difference is the perspective on Teams. . If you look at the definition of Kanban or Lean, you wouldn't find teams anywhere there.

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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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Inloox

APRIL 18, 2019

Time management methods are currently very popular. No wonder. Who doesn't want to work more concentrated and focused to complete more tasks? In this blog post we are going to talk about the time management methode Timeboxing. Timeboxing Definition Timeboxing is a technique that comes originally from project planning. Instead of spending as much time as necessary on a task, fixed time windows (timeboxes) including the final result are set in advance.

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Resource Guru

APRIL 15, 2019

Project management is largely about time management. As a project manager, you’re an expert at systematizing time. You have the ability to assess the scope, set milestones, plan the timeline, assign the deliverables, and delegate your company’s people with resource and project management tools. But project managers aren’t in control of everything ; there are always some developments that have a direct effect on the progress of a project that fall outside of your control.

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Ganttic

APRIL 15, 2019

Not long ago, we celebrated the world wide web’s 30th birthday. The creator of the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee – said his brain-child is still in its awkward teenage phase. When looking at the problematic personality of the internet in all of its glory - the datafication, centralization, and balkanization - no one would dare to argue with him. When looking aside from the “quirks”, the story does not get much better.

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Epicflow Blog

APRIL 19, 2019

Our researchers have spent years making project management simple and efficient. At the Project Management Congress 2019 on April 12 in Delft, the Netherlands, Jan Willem Tromp , a PM researcher and co-founder of Epicflow, gave a presentation on ways to reduce the complexity of managing multi-project environments. The congress was a meeting point for the most experienced project researchers from around the world.

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Proofhub

APRIL 17, 2019

ProofHub has been acknowledged by SoftwareWorld in its list of Top 10+ Best Project Management Software in 2019. We’ve seen the best of the best and it is always enthralling to be talked about and be loved by the audience. SoftwareWorld has assessed various project management software in the market and listed ProofHub as one of the best. The list is made based on user satisfaction (reviews & ratings), social media buzz, online presence, and other relevant information.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 18, 2019

In a new report from Strategy Execution, 86% of organisations which are delivering change through programmes and projects struggle to prioritise work streams and resources. There are further stats; 45% lack change management skills; 29% have poorly resourced initiatives; 27% lack project management skills. For organisations delivering any kind of change which is crucial for their business now and in the future, any figure above 1% is too much.

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Taskque

APRIL 19, 2019

Businesses are moving forward – if you are not moving with that speed, you are losing quite a lot of business. How companies gather data has transformed and if you don’t follow the trend, you’ll be left behind. The high-end companies use an agile approach in their project management. To me, being “agile” translates to adopting the right tools, processes, and a mindset of being nimble and delivering value as quickly and as often as reasonably possible.

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Pawel Brodzinski

APRIL 17, 2019

How does transparency feel? Early in my career, I had an occasion to experience that. I was working in a typical organization where lots of things, payroll included, were secrets. Then the salary list leaked out. It wasn’t a huge leak, i.e. it didn’t go public, but I was close enough to the source that I could take a look. When I was about to open the spreadsheet with the data, I was thinking about my expectations.

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Online PM Courses

APRIL 17, 2019

Issues arise all the time on projects. So, what is Issue Management? The post What is Issue Management? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Proofhub

APRIL 15, 2019

Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of emails you get? Do you want to boost your productivity for your daily work needs? When it comes to running a business, it is easy to get bogged down in the daily grind and forget about our selfcare. Sometimes a few small changes can go a long way in helping your productivity and overall health. 1. Take Regular Breaks No, we don’t mean a smoke break.

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Gunther Verheyen

APRIL 19, 2019

In 2013 I accidentally created a book, “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” (subtitled: A Smart Travel Companion). Creating my book, accidentally or otherwise, had many unanticipated (mostly positive) consequences, for which I am very grateful. In 2018 I deliberately evolved my Scrum travel companion into a second edition (available 2019). I am humbled to share that this second edition of “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” is now available worldwide in all major formats via dive

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Wrike

APRIL 17, 2019

Top teams are using harmonograms to manage their projects without even realizing it! More commonly known as Gantt charts , these revolutionary visual bar charts have changed the project management game. At the turn of the 20th century, everyone started creating Gantt charts. First noted was Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki, who developed a visual workflow chart that he called a “harmonogram” in the late 1800s.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 16, 2019

We set our aim on one of the biggest enemies of productivity - busy work. The newest addition to the ActiveCollab feature set enables you to duplicate your existing project templates and avoid making new templates from scratch. The number of processes that are repetitive and require some sort of periodic maintenance is staggering, and this comes as no surprise to many business owners.

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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 17, 2019

The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In the [project office], we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: Buying a stronger whip; Changing riders; Saying things like ‘this is the way we’ve always ridden the horse; Appointing a committee to study the horse; Arranging a visit to.

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Inloox

APRIL 17, 2019

With the stopwatch integrated in InLoox for Outlook, you can easily record your personal time spending to the minute. You can then book the recorded workload directly to the corresponding project and connect it to a specific task or activity.

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LiquidPlanner

APRIL 16, 2019

The other night I was watching the pilot of Workin’ Moms , a Canadian sitcom about women who have just returned to work after maternity leave. One of the moms pulls a really jerky move on her first day back, making it seem that her executive assistant had screwed up. By the end of the episode, she had realized the error of her ways and apologized. This reminded me of Robert I.

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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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