Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today I’m sharing an infographic from Brandeis University. For any type of project to be successful, good communication skills are vital for both managers and team members. Up to 56% of all projects fail due to poor communication, regardless of the niche industry, according to their figures. Scope creep, which affects as many as 45% of all projects, is also a common problem due to lack of communication between different members.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The Project Plan Checklist Have you left anything out of your project plan? Check out this project plan checklist to help you identify the baselines and plans that will be most helpful to each of your projects. I like to keep my project plans as simple as possible. For many project plans, I will only have three or four of the items in this checklist.

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Moira Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Managing projects is a demanding job, and it's more seem challenging when you add in the fact that you're doing it remotely. But it doesn't have to be. After identifying all the possible barriers to remote project management, as well as some of the possible solutions, your business should further analyze and document the readiness of your teams, processes and technologies.

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Kiron Bondale

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Through their Lean Startup work, Steve Blank and Eric Ries have popularized the idea of focusing on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) which will meet a customer’s core needs while minimize investment and providing opportunities for learning, refinement and the ability to fail fast. Organizations have latched on to MVP principles and reworked development approaches as a means to avoid gold-plating and to achieve time to market and early ROI benefits.

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Speaker: Kat Conner

The challenge of delivering the right product at the right time while aligning with strategic objectives is more pressing than ever. Product management is evolving and gaining greater recognition as the means to creating this connection. Join our upcoming webinar and learn how to streamline your product development processes, infuse product thinking across the organization, and bridge the gap between vision and delivery.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Posted in Tools. [link]. Make the web better with Hex Naw, a color accessibility testing tool that uses the power of Colorable to help designers and developers test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility. Plug in your palette or color system and let Hex Naw do the rest. The post Hex Naw appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Ganttic

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Do you know that short story or a thinking exercise where a CFO asks, “What happens if we train them and they leave?”, and then the CEO answers, “What happens if we don’t and they stay?”? It’s a bit of a cliche start but hear me out anyway. You might be using resource planning software like Ganttic or project management tool like Jira but there is no software that will actually do the thinking for you.

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Celoxis

OCTOBER 15, 2016

What makes a perfect project? Ask any project manager and they will all have conflicting answers. Some may quote cost effectiveness, others may say delivery before the deadline and some may say planning. But do we really have a scale to measure how perfect a project is?

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Redbooth

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Wondering why so few people are using your newly implemented team chat app? From our experience, it boils down to two things. First, it might be that the app wasn’t rolled out properly to teams. Because many team chat apps seem intuitive, team leaders or admins often just invite members and expect everyone to jump on it. Most people don’t want to change the way they already work — even if the new way is better.

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Wrike

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The art of project management is strongly influenced by the line of work you’re in. In some companies, project management is a full-time job, overseeing large teams and multiple, complex projects. Whereas in others, teams are small and task distribution is pretty straightforward. When it comes to managing creative wor k, the project manager is often also a team lead—and a team mediator.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The ability to generate reliable cost and schedule estimates is a critical success factor necessary to support business projects. Without this ability, business value is at risk of experiencing cost overruns, missed deadlines, and performance shortfalls—all recurring problems that projects assessments too often reveal. Furthermore, cost increases often mean that the business firm cannot fund as many projects as intended or deliver them when promised.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 21, 2016

There’s no doubt we’re entering a fascinating time for industry and in history. Self-driving cars are being built and tested as we speak; robots and automated processes are replacing mundane human effort—and making way for us to do more innovative work with our brains. There are so many new ways to imagine ourselves at work and in the future. Here’s a look at what’s making the news and what we’re inventing for ourselves to stay up with it all!

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Stepping Into Project Management

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Laurens Bonnema is an Agile Management Consultant with Xebia and an expert in sustainably aligning business and IT to improve the results of IT projects. He also helps people (re)learn how to visualize their ideas through sketchnoting, graphic recording, and videoscribing so they can communicate those ideas more effectively, help each other to solve problems, and have lots of fun.

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Fix my Project Chaos

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Let’s talk about how to do career planning in a short period of time In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks with career coach Scotia Lockwood about how busy project managers can do career planning in a short period of time. Scotia’s passion is to empower professional woman to take control of their careers, whether that […]. The post Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the last couple of weeks I’ve turned into a woman who runs down Regent Street in ridiculous heels to get to her next meeting on time. Who has said, “Sorry, I’ve got a mouthful of lunch, hang on,” too many times on the phone because there isn’t enough time in the day not to work through lunch. Who has paid library fines even though the books are just there ready to go back, because she can’t get out of the office for 20 minutes to return them.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 16, 2016

We hear fair and balanced is a desirable approach to problems. Turns out this is a false balance when the issue under discussion doesn't address an underlying principle. . One side can be wrong. It is seductive to state we're exploring new ways to do things. in the absence of the underlying principles that would guide the explorer to a possible new way to doing something.

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Project Management Hacks

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Ever since I read “Outliers: The Story of Success” by Malcom Gladwell , I have been fascinated with productivity and success. I recently read Shane Snow ‘s book, “Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success.” In sum, it is a good book that puts forward compelling principles and provides fascinating stories to support them.

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Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Robert Gates, former U.S. Defense Secretary, wrote in his memoirs that a strong and effective leader in a big and complex organization needs to put the time and energy into acquiring "microknowledge" but refrain from "micromanagement. An interesting thought, to be sure. Let the emphasis lie on ". put in the time and energy. " This stuff is not free.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Roll up, roll up! Peter Taylor and I are hosting a fantastic event in London on 1 December all about how to work in a collaborative, social project management structure. It’s the first event that I have been responsible for organising and as my name is on it, I can guarantee you that we’ll be putting in every effort to make it practical, value-packed and fun.

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GanttPRO Project Management

OCTOBER 19, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the Kanban project management methodology, but you may not know a lot about it. What are the differences between Kanban and other agile methodologies like Scrum, […].

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Fix my Project Chaos

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Let’s talk about how to do career planning in a short period of time In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks with career coach Scotia Lockwood about how busy project managers can do career planning in a short period of time. Scotia’s passion is to empower professional woman to take control of their careers, whether that […]. The post Podcast 101 – How to do career planning in a short period of time appeared first on Fix My Project Chaos.

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Musings on Project Management

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Not necessarily first we learn, but certainly be the best and be different In a TED talk, Adam Grant opines on what qualities or habits there are to look for in "the originals" -- as he calls them -- that lead to creatively different successes Grant finds three habits: Modest procrastination: not pre-crastinators for sure -- those working far ahead of schedule -- but not so late as to be out

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Here’s my video recap of Day 2 of the Digital PM Summit in San Antonio, featuring the Alamo! And some other work stuff too, including a quote by Jeremy Clarkson, which rather tickled me. If you can’t see the video, watch it here on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/187462789. You'll also like: Digital PM Summit: Video Diary Day 1 My video diary from Day 1 of the Digital PM Summit in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Posted in General How-to Guides. We all want great project kickoff meetings but are we doing the right groundwork with our clients so we have a better client kickoff meeting? Projects sometimes start off a bit wonky because we dive straight into the project without getting to know the client and truly understanding some of. The post How to start projects better with your clients appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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GanttPRO Project Management

OCTOBER 19, 2016

You’ve probably heard of the Kanban project management methodology, but you may not know a lot about it.

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LiquidPlanner

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Did you know that your ability to focus at work directly impacts personal and business success? Various studies have proven that focus is tied to job engagement, which is tied to increased productivity and business growth. Still, the struggle to focus on work that needs to be done right now is universal. Distractions are everywhere. Projects grow in scope and priorities change; co-workers stop by to chat (fun), and ask for last-minute help (not so fun).

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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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