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Project Management Processes & Phases

ProjectManager.com

If so, it might be time to start implementing proven project management processes and phases at your organization in order to bring your company’s workflow under control. At first, the concept of the project management process and its practical adaption can seem a little daunting, but this article will give you everything you need to set up PM processes and phases at your business. How to Implement a PM Process in Your Organization.

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The 7 Best Blog Posts on Project Management in 2018

ProjectManager.com

One such is Six Sigma, which is used to improve the quality of an output in a process. It’s a way to continuously achieve stability and predictable results from a process. Project Management Processes & Phases. One thing that was defined was that project management is made up of processes and phases. There are also processes by which to implement and control those phases. That’s why you need to read the whole article about processes and phases.

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How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, How To Make 2018 A Successful Year for Your Projects , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Would you like to make 2018 a successful year for your projects? I asked people two questions: What should people managing projects be aware of as we go into 2018 to make 2018 their most successful year ever? What will you be doing in 2018 to have your most successful year ever?

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Software Review: Vizzlo [2018]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is how the software review process normally goes for me. Vizzlo has over 75 template graphics for you to choose from, covering everything from Venn diagrams to milestone charts, timelines, maps and process diagrams. Update August 2018: This tool keeps getting better and better! The post Software Review: Vizzlo [2018] appeared first on Girl's Guide to Project Management.

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A Guide to Designing Delightful Dashboards

Speaker: Daniel O'Sullivan, Product Designer, nCino and Jeff Hudock, Senior Product Manager, nCino

We’ve all seen the increasing industry trend of artificial intelligence and big data analytics. In a world of information overload, it's more important than ever to have a dashboard that provides data that's not only interesting but actually relevant and timely. Dashboards assist decision makers facilitate new ideas and business opportunities, increase customer approval rates, and analyze current business process. All of these activities play a vital role in providing the superior experience your customers demand.

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Mastering the Decision-Making Process: A Practical Guide

ProjectManager.com

Our mastery of the decision-making process plays a big part in the outcome of our lives, as life could be easily defined as a series of decisions. You can learn a decision-making process that allows you to quickly assess the best choice and make it based on data that supports the objectives and goals you’ve been tasked to achieve. 7 Steps for an Effective Decision-Making Process. You plan your projects , so why shouldn’t you plan your decision-making process?

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Will a Project Management Certification Help Your Career?

LiquidPlanner

Are you managing the kind of large projects that demand that you put professional processes and documentation into action? Going through the process to become a Fellow of APM in the U.K. Not only was the application process rigorous, but I had to prepare a detailed portfolio of the projects I had worked on and the contribution I had made to my company and the profession.

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Recap: International Project Management Day 2018

The IIL Blog

On 1 November 2018, thousands of people gathered online for International Project Management Day 2018 : Project, Program, and Portfolio Management in an Age of Digital Disruption , an online learning and knowledge sharing event organized by IIL. Carol Bluebeam Hagen (@carolhagen) November 1, 2018. Innovation management, in its purest form, is a combination of the management of innovation processes and change management. IIL Global (@IILGlobal) November 1, 2018.

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All Set for International Project Management Day 2018? The only Project Management guide you need

Taskque

Get instant access to definitions, history, and processes, and get drilled in globally followed international standards with all the references and links that you need to become a successful project manager. The post All Set for International Project Management Day 2018? Announcement Project Management Project Management Day 2018When Lori Milhaven collaborated with Laverne Johnson, the result was the first IIL (International Institute of Learning) conference.

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Process breakdown structure

Musings on Project Management

A coffee shop discussion on process redesign and process improvement led me to state the obvious to my caffeine-charged debaters: Managers responsible for the business buy results [and outcomes], not process. Process, by itself, does not sell well; what sells is results. Process per se is a tool. process Project Management

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Becoming a Project Manager – A Complete Guide for 2018

Paymo App

Some of your duties will include: taking part in the creation process, executing the project, preparing communication methods, finding solutions to recurring issues, monitoring the project’s progress from start to finish, and many more. You can always switch the project you’re working on, the team you interact with, the industry you’re involved in, and even the processes and tools to ease your work. solid understanding of business cases and risk management processes.

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5 Reasons Why Using Spreadsheets is a Horrible Way to Manage Projects

LiquidPlanner

Here are five ways spreadsheets make project management a more horrific process than it has to be. Spreadsheets don’t give teams commenting features and audit trails that are essential to tracking how information and processes change over time. When tools and processes become difficult to use, it’s human nature to invent workarounds. The results are so-called “project management spreadsheets” that are part of a team’s home-grown project management process.

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7 Ways to Sell Agile to Project Stakeholders

LiquidPlanner

Whether you’re making the move to Agile project management in your development group or creating an Agile process for your in-house project management methodology, chances are you’re going to have to sell this change to executives in your organization. Give your stakeholders transparency into the process by inviting them to sit in on scrums or letting them monitor work progress.

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Ask a PM: How to Get Proper Estimates

LiquidPlanner

Gone through the release process—you can estimate that part. You can also build trust by implementing proper change management and risk management processes. Dear Elizabeth: I work in a technical team as a project manager. We do a lot of projects that are innovative (for us), and my development colleagues always seem reluctant when it comes to project planning. They won’t give me timescales that will help me plan.

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Project Management Trends (2018 Edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Project Management Trends (2018 Edition) , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Here are the top project management trends for 2018 I think you should be watching out for. Improving consistency in process and decision making. There are trends in all industries and professions. Project management is no different: we see trends come and go, or stay with us and develop over time.

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How to memorize the 49 processes from PMBOK 6th Edition in under 30 minutes

ExamsPM

The 49 processes (shown below) form the skeleton or outline for the PMBOK – if you fully understand the 49 processes you are well on your way to passing your PMP or CAPM exam! The Process Chart. The columns at the top of the chart below show the Process Groups, while the rows show the Knowledge Areas. The center of the table shows all 49 processes. It is important to know both the Process Group and Knowledge Area for each process.

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Meisterplan at 2018 PMI Global Conference – Do Your Plans Work?

Meisterplan

The Meisterplan team including Brian , Karoline , Stephan and Christoph were excited to participate at the 2018 PMI Global Conference in Los Angeles earlier this month. You can have the best tool in the world, but without the right process, it will be worthless. For years, we have been discussing portfolio management processes with professionals around the world. We have used those conversations to develop our Lean PPM process.

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The Best Time Tracking Software of 2018

Paymo App

Published: February 2018. Onboarding process : We’ve gone through each step of the onboarding process to see exactly how easy it is for a user to get acquainted with a new tool. Some perks of the onboarding process include tutorials, guides, customer support, free resources or templates, and other helpful features that can help you start faster. TSheets has a fast onboarding process.

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How to Create a SIPOC Model for Process Creation or Improvement [SIPOC Template Download]

Project Bliss

If you have a project that involves any type of process improvement, a SIPOC Model is a great tool to get your team started. It’s a great tool to facilitate discussion and common understanding when dealing with processes that can be complex – and gets you off to a great start. your team needs clarity on the scope, boundaries, and high-level information about a process you want to better understand or improve. you’re developing a new process. PROCESS.

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How effective are your agile ceremonies?

Kiron Bondale

Agile agile project management improving project management Process compliance stupidityWe hope that by conducting effective ceremonies we will achieve the agile trinity of improved value delivery, better quality and more fun. But these objectives might be reached via multiple paths so we might not be able to prove causality between our ceremonies and those objectives.

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How to Create a SIPOC Model for Process Creation or Improvement

Project Bliss

If you have a project that involves any type of process improvement, a SIPOC Model is a great tool to get your team started. It’s a great tool to facilitate discussion and common understanding when dealing with processes that can be complex – and gets you off to a great start. your team needs clarity on the scope, boundaries, and high-level information about a process you want to better understand or improve. you’re developing a new process. PROCESS.

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How successful is your sprint planning?

Kiron Bondale

Agile Project Management agile project management improving project management Process compliance stupiditySprint planning is one of the standard events within the Scrum framework. This ceremony or an adapted version has also been incorporated within other agile delivery frameworks which time-box the work of teams.

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The 7 Best Blog Posts on Productivity in 2018

ProjectManager.com

Our short tutorial video on KPI metrics goes into this process more deeply. The post The 7 Best Blog Posts on Productivity in 2018 appeared first on ProjectManager.com. As we move towards the year’s end, before we look forward, let’s take a look back at some of the best blog posts from ProjectManager.com and from around the web. We’re going to comb through all that content by subject. First, and maybe most important, is productivity.

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Best of 2018: Presenting Your 10 Favorite Blog Posts This Year!

Inloox

There was a lot going on at InLoox in 2018, which is also reflected on the InLoox blog. From all the posts on various topics around project management , time management , organizational agility , disruptive trends and professions in project management , you particularly liked these 10: #10: Digital Transformation Projects (2): Opportunities and Challenges of Digitalization Digital transformation breaks with tradition and replaces obsolete processes with newer and more efficient ones.

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The PM Skills You Can Forget About (And the Ones You Really Need to Know)

LiquidPlanner

So what processes and techniques will catapult your career and what are the areas that you can… overlook? In this article I’ll look at 5 project management techniques, processes and skills that you will no doubt have heard mentioned time and time again. Whatever you want to call it, the whole process is still important for the successful delivery of projects. Resource leveling is the process of making sure that your project resources are not overstretched with work.

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The Qualities of a Good Project Manager

Prince2

Take time to properly assess how your team’s actions and processes will affect the final outcome, and if anything doesn’t make sense, trust your gut and take a critical look at processes and solutions. Understandably, we believe that being certified in project management is a sure-fire way to boost your career chances, knowledge of best practice and overall skillset. However, without the right personal skills, a qualification can only take you so far.

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Why the Stage Gate Process will Make You a Better Project Manager

Online PM Courses

The Stage Gate Process gets too little love from Project Managers. In a Stage Gate process, you break your project into stages, or phases. In this article, we look at why a stage gate process will enhance your project management, and how to make it work. What is a Stage Gate Process? The Stage Gate Process examines your projects at key decision points in its lifecycle. A Stage Gate Review is a process for achieving a robust Go/No-go decision.

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Process Groups and the 5 Steps of Traditional Project Management

Redbooth

Let’s take a closer look at process groups and how they help you move through the five traditional stages of project management. What are process groups? Think of process groups as a set of actions or subtasks necessary to complete one step of the plan to bring your product to market. Baking a pie is one way to break it down into more digestible pieces and we look at the entire process from a macro level to understand how it is broken up into groups of processes.

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Reflection and Takeaways on Agility from the SMC-IT 2018 Space Mission Design conference

The IIL Blog

Case studies on how agile methodologies have been applied to mission planning and how scrum has been used in spacecraft construction were discussed, as well as topics such as developing and delivering software, reliability and reuse of software, onboard processing, and communication. Whether it was the first aeronauts in balloons, or the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, explorers of flight used processes that built on incremental failures and successes.

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Six Sigma: A Simple Guide for Project Managers

ProjectManager.com

It can mean different things within various organizations or circumstances, but there is a way to broadly outline this business process improvement methodology and define its beginnings, its, rise, its use and its implementation. As noted, it’s a methodology used to improve the quality of an output in a process. A staff with Six Sigma expertise is also usually hired to monitor the process. It’s been around for three decades, but Six Sigma can still be somewhat of an enigma.

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Build A PMO You Can Be Proud Of

Project Risk Coach

Define a process to ensure projects align with the organization’s mission and goals. Some organizations also use a gate review process. Some Project Management Offices (PMOs) never get off the ground. I've seen others that are started and year or so later die a slow painful death. So, how can you build a PMO you can be proud of, one that thrives? Why Are There So Many Troubled PMOs? No one intends to build an impotent PMO, but it happens. The PMO lacks power and effectiveness.

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People Versus Process

Herding Cats

At the program level and above, the choice of a people focus or a process focus is not between two competing paradigms. This is obvious but many times lost when discussing agile processes. One school emphasizes people, while the other emphasizes process. A second school emphasizes process and starts with the assumption that firms don’t intentionally “hire bad people,” so a framework in which to work is needed. [1].

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How to Make a Contingency Plan

ProjectManager.com

Project managers are adept at creating contingency plans, as the structure and actions are like many of the processes already familiar to their profession. Like any plan, there are always challenges that managers need to think about before and during the process of creating their contingency plans. You’ve heard the phrase, “Always have a Plan B.” ” Well, “Plan B” is just common vernacular for what’s known as a contingency plan.

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User Onboarding: 9 Steps to Perfecting your Onboarding Process

Planio

Let’s take a deep dive into what makes a powerful user onboarding process, the tools and resources you have at your disposal, and some of the best practices used by your favorite startups and companies. The essential elements of a great onboarding process. 9 best practices and strategies for perfecting your onboarding process. Onboarding is the process of helping new users understand and experience how your product is going to help them achieve their goal.

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Lowering Work in Process (WIP) in the Real-world

Scrum.org

One of the key Kanban practices we discuss in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams is Limiting Work in Process. . Some of us have the luxury of designing processes for greenfield systems meaning there is no history/legacy to deal with. Typically though, we are dealing with Brownfield/Legacy systems - This usually means there is some work in the system already, there are outstanding commitments, and some existing queues between steps in our processes. .

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How to Identify Scope Risks

Project Risk Coach

Scope changes may not be processed through the change control process. Traceability structure may not be developed resulting in requirements not being managed through the design, development, and testing processes. 8 ways to identify scope risks Some project managers struggle to identify scope risks. Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. First, individuals may lack a concrete understanding of scope; scope seems to be a nebulous concept. WHAT exactly is scope?

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What’s the Real Value of Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

The verb form can be especially helpful for the actual practice of project management, like when a project manager is estimating the value of a process or pain point, but we’ll explore that topic later. Therefore, investing in project management and implementing a process creates a benefit for the project manager. The Process to “Value” in Project Management. Project management has real value, but don’t take our word for it.

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Project lessons from playing pool

Kiron Bondale

Project Management improving project management Process compliance stupidity Risk management team buildingA few months ago, I rekindled my enjoyment of the game of pool after having played it sporadically over the past twenty years. I find something soothing about the clickety-clack sound of balls ricocheting off one another and relish the challenge of figuring out which shot to play to sink a ball and line up my next shot or if I miss, at least prevent others from making their shots.

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The 7 Best Blog Posts on Leadership in 2018

ProjectManager.com

The following are some of our best blog posts on leadership in 2018 and a couple that we found on the web. Management is more process-oriented, and about controlling people and things. Mastering the Decision-Making Process: A Practical Guide. That’s why we wrote about the decision-making process. In our post, we broke it down into a seven-step process. The post The 7 Best Blog Posts on Leadership in 2018 appeared first on ProjectManager.com.

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Review CHAOS Report 2018

Henny Portman

This CHAOS Report 2018: Decision Latency Theory: It’s All About the Interval presents the root cause of software project performance. In the CHAOS Report 2018 are five main sections: Decision Latency Theory. Third card: The process must be agile.

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