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My 4 Lessons Learned in Project Management in 2018

PM Basics

To boost the process, every project manager in the company should share lessons learned with others. In this article, I’m going to share my lessons learned from 2018. For me, this process happens on several levels: 1. So, here are the bits of wisdom from 2018. Anyway, it would be better to control the process.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. In fact, the approach that has the biggest impact is to model the behavior you are looking for.

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Save Time in 2018 With the Update to LiquidPlanner Timesheets

LiquidPlanner

Along with the time entry process, additional features have been simplified to allow users to get their time entries into LiquidPlanner quickly and without delay. We’ve also placed the Remaining Effort field front and center, making it easier to update your task’s estimated remaining hours. What’s new?

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Success in Disruptive Times: PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession

Online PM Courses

The PMI has titled its 2018 Pulse of the Profession report: Success in Disruptive Times. PMI: Success in Disruptive Times – 2018. The 2018 Pulse of the Profession report has three headline findings: Greater project implementation success is linked to greater investment in proven project management practices. Though the 9.9%

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Getting to Know the PMBOK Guide 7th Edition

The IIL Blog

There was a big change in the Standard as the content shifted from being focused on Process Groups to project management principles. Previous editions of the PMBOK ® Guide organized content by Knowledge Areas and processes. This section presents information on Data Gathering and Analysis Methods, Estimating Methods.

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5 Team Productivity Blockers and How to Overcome Them

ProjectManager.com

employers an estimated $544 billion in lost productivity each year. According to Udemy’s, 2018 Workplace Distraction Report , 33 percent of employees surveyed said that technology and connectivity issues were the most common distractions and productivity-suckers in the workplace. Technology Issues.

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Agile Project Management With Scrum or Kanban (2018 Guide)

PM Basics

From project management perspective you build up additional processes around Scrum implementation of project scope. You just add more processes to work with Stakeholders. Identify external to Scrum process Stakeholders. Estimation here is rough. This way you have a roughly estimated Backlog.

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