Project Risk Coach
JUNE 12, 2017
Learn threat response strategies Project managers may make risk decisions without much thought. How is this possible? Well, after managing projects for years, you know the drill. You simply know how to respond to the most common risks. Every year, my family takes a trip to the beach for fun and relaxation. I’ve gone to the same beach my entire life.
Kiron Bondale
JUNE 11, 2017
Agile transformation is a long journey for large companies. Holding off on getting started until all the necessary enablers are in place for successful adoption means the valuable learning which comes through experimentation will be lost. During this formative time, teams will have to cope with constraints which hamper how far down the agile delivery continuum they can operate.
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Growing Agile
JUNE 15, 2017
This assessment is for you to take to see where you are on your journey to becoming an agile coach. Everyone is in a different place. We believe you are the best person to judge where you are right now, and where you want to be in a certain amount of time. About The Assessment. We have broken the large topic of being an Agile Coach into 5 main areas.
Ron Rosenhead
JUNE 15, 2017
I wrote recently about the skills shortages in the UK and the link to having sufficiently trained and developed project staff. Today, I read a report called Transforming Talent in the Modern Workforce . I have shown below some findings from the report and I do suggest taking time out to read a report that impacts us all. How well prepared is your organisation for the modern workforce?
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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-Management.pm
JUNE 14, 2017
Meetings are perfect gateways for teams to assess the project and help updates the tasks progress. Some find it unnecessary and a waste of time, but organizations these days make it a point to facilitate a meeting for the sake of project success and goal achievements. Project kickoff meetings are one of the alternatives organizations secure for project teams to be able to come into agreement with the plan and procedures.
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Redbooth
JUNE 13, 2017
There are an astonishing number of collaboration tools available today – 133 according to the Marketing Technology Landscape. This is due to a few reasons, including the fact that the market is still very much in flux and people are still looking for that perfect app, and that many of them address a specific task or project. Amium is one of those, designed for marketing and design agencies, freelancers, and their clients.
Celoxis
JUNE 12, 2017
Are you feeling overwhelmed and getting nowhere? Or do you have too much time and easily getting bored. Most of the time, we end up feeling somewhat crunched even when we are trying our best to save time. With meetings, phone calls, social media and YouTube, how could we not get distracted? Productivity hacks, gadgets, and apps can only get you so far.
Project-Management.pm
JUNE 15, 2017
If you want to succeed, you have to look for ways to constantly improve your organization A-game. In the case of a successful organization, it’s a habit that they always embed in their system. Such habit brings them closer to success and not to mention more opportunities for more innovative ways to stay relevant in the market. In the advent of technology, organizations are making it a point to take advantage of what is being presented to then.
Function Point
JUNE 13, 2017
Your agency nailed the pitch, the contract is signed and the combination of excitement and caffeine has your team ready for kickoff. It’s time to begin focusing on client relationship management and retention. If you’ve been blessed with skilled account managers, you may not even realize how important client management is. It’s something the entire team plays a part in, whether you’re directly client-facing or not.
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
ActiveCollab
JUNE 13, 2017
What’s the difference between a group and a team? When people share an elevator ride, they are a group; when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team. Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The mere fact that they have something in common makes them a group.
Herding Cats
JUNE 10, 2017
There are Five Immutable Principles of Project Success. Each question requires an answer with sufficient confidence to make decisions about spending other people's money, that increases the probability of project success. All project work is probabilistic (actually statistical and probabilistic), with reducible and irreducible uncertainties that create reducible and irreducible risks to the success of the project.
Wrike
JUNE 16, 2017
Program manager vs. project manager — to understand how these two similar roles differ, you must first know the difference between programs and projects. When a large project is made up of several other projects that are dependent on each other, it becomes something bigger — a program. Programs can become overwhelming and stressful for one person to manage, so delegating individual projects is often recommended.
Function Point
JUNE 13, 2017
Your agency nailed the pitch, the contract is signed and the combination of excitement and caffeine has your team ready for kickoff. It’s time to begin focusing on client relationship management and retention. If you’ve been blessed with skilled account managers, you may not even realize how important client management is. It’s something the entire team plays a part in, whether you’re directly client-facing or not.
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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.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 13, 2017
What’s the difference between a group and a team? When people share an elevator ride, they are a group;when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team. Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The mere fact that they have something in common makes them a group.
Herding Cats
JUNE 11, 2017
There's a blog post from a few years back that has resurfaced The 5 Laws of Software Estimates. It's one of those posts that's heavy on opinion and light on principles. Time to revisit it, since I saw it referenced again. Law of Software Estimating. Fact of Software Estimating. Estimates are waste. A waste for whom? Developers think they are waste, but it's not their money.
TimeCamp
JUNE 13, 2017
Imagine telling your employees that from now on, all of their computer performance will be monitored and reported. What you probably expect to see is a general dissatisfaction. People by nature don’t like to be controlled and they may not be happy with the implementation of time tracking software. On the other hand – it’s important to understand what’s going on in your company.
The Digital Project Manager
JUNE 13, 2017
I’ve faced my fair share of conflict as a project manager: repeatedly having to tell a difficult client ‘no’ on wildly out-of-scope requests, or dealing. The post The 10 Most Effective Conflict Resolution Strategies appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.
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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.
ActiveCollab
JUNE 13, 2017
The Program Evaluation Review Technique, commonly known as PERT, is a visual tool in project planning that helps organizations analyze and represent the activity, and evaluate and estimate the time required to complete the project within deadlines. PERT allows planners to identify start and end dates, and ultimately reduce costs and time needed to complete the project.
Herding Cats
JUNE 12, 2017
Successfully managing projects, not matter the domain, the size, the development or engineering method starts with a set of Principles, Practices, and Processes. Here are those Principles and Practices. The Principles are Immutable. The Practices are universal. The Processes need to be tailored to your domain. When hearing about some new, supposed innovative way for delivering value in exchange for money, ask does that idea fit into any known set of Principles and Practices of project success ?
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 14, 2017
Yes, there really are poetry books written with project managers in mind. This one, Haiku for Project Managers: Project Knowledge in Seventeen Syllables , by Robert Prol, PMP, is the only one I know of. Therefore, it’s the best. I first found Robert’s Haiku on ProjectManagement.com and asked him if I could feature some of them here for our National Poetry Day.
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 16, 2017
Have you read this book? It's a must read. It's a different take than Tversky and Kahneman which is summarized in Kahneman's book "Thinking fast and Slow", another must read. When to stop looking? Staffing up? Going through a bunch of resumes or applicant interviews or some such -- however you do it these days? When do you stop looking? Is there any computer science.
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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
JUNE 13, 2017
The Program Evaluation Review Technique, commonly known as PERT, is a visual tool in project planning that helps organizations analyze and represent the activity, and evaluate and estimate the time required to complete the project within deadlines. PERT allows planners to identify start and end dates, and ultimately reduce costs and time needed to complete the project.
Celoxis
JUNE 15, 2017
INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Tips on Delegating Tasks to Underperforming Employees.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JUNE 12, 2017
Linky van der Merwe talks about project management in South Africa and her Success Stories Shared initiative. No related posts.
Musings on Project Management
JUNE 12, 2017
Got business development responsibilities? A lot of project managers get involved in supporting sales rain-making, proposal development, and general marketing support. Here's a Kahn Academy video series on structuring a story. This stuff is taken from Pixar, who should certainly know how to do it. Structure Although you may not be making a movie, video, or commercial, the ideas of structure.
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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