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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 2, 2021

Teamweek

More Flexibility With Time Estimates. We already had daily estimates for tasks in Toggl Plan. However, in many cases you know the total time estimated instead. This means, you had to manually calculate the daily estimate. When changing task’s dates, the total time estimation value doesn’t change. The Company.

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Three Tips for Recognizing the Influence You Have

International Institute for Learning

By Vanessa Bohns Vanessa Bohns, Author of You Have More Influence Than You Think , and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell. Adapted from Don’t Underestimate Your Influence at Work, published in Harvard Business Review, January 6, 2023 ( [link] ) Most people chronically underestimate their influence.

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Useless Agile Metrics

Scrum.org

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Comparing velocities may lead to unhealthy competition and encourage teams to inflate estimates, also known as cooking the agile books. Leading by example is a powerful way to influence change.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

How does the reconciliation of known and emerging risks impact the project team’s estimate of the remaining contingency plan? “A In their 2021 book titled “Risk: A User’s Guide”³, authors Stanley McChrysta, former US Army General and Anna Butrico neatly sum up this common pitfall with the phrase, “ the greatest risk to us is us.

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Construction Project Manager Job Description (with Free Example!)

ProjectManager.com

Read Next: Best Construction Scheduling Software of 2021 for Managing Projects. In order to coordinate all the moving parts of a construction project, the project manager must assign tasks to everyone on the team and estimate how much it will all cost to complete the project. Estimate costs, builds and manage the budget.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the APM Salary and Market Trends survey 2021 , 61% of respondents reported that working from home options were an important criterion for choosing a new role, up from 52% in 2020. In 2021, Cisco estimated that 82% of consumer internet traffic was video. People want flexible options for work. Why is it important?

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Webinar Recap: Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template

MPUG

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Oliver Gildersleeve’s Analogous and Parametric Estimating Schedule Template webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. The new schedule template covers both analogous and parametric estimating features. Estimating, let me get back to slides.