Mon.Apr 10, 2017

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How to Improve the Performance of Your Project Teams

Project Risk Coach

Ever watched what happens when a new team is formed? Maybe you’ve seen a new team of little league baseball players, a music group, a civic group, or a business team. The initial dynamics can be rather rocky and uncertain, even with skilled individuals. Imagine a new project team that was formed to consolidate customer service centers from 20 locations across the United States to five regional locations.

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your project management plan is more than just a schedule of work. Although I am guilty of using ‘plan’ and ‘Gantt chart’ interchangeably. So what does go in the project management plan? Below you’ll find 20 things that make up a comprehensive project management plan. Be pragmatic though. Pick and choose what is relevant to you. If you aren’t buying anything, then don’t waste time producing a procurement plan that says as much.

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April Product Update: Improved Reporting and Recording Functionality

LiquidPlanner

In the world of project management, data is key. However, measuring and tracking the right information from project kickoff all the way to delivery is never an easy feat. That’s why we’ve been cooking up product improvements that not only deliver better data for all aspects of your projects, but also give you a way to make sense of that data. Because data without analysis is just numbers.

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your project management plan is more than just a schedule of work. Although I am guilty of using ‘plan’ and ‘Gantt chart’ interchangeably. So what does go in the project management plan? Below you’ll find 20 things that make up a comprehensive project management plan. Be pragmatic though. Pick and choose what is relevant to you. If you aren’t buying anything, then don’t waste time producing a procurement plan that says as much.

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Don’t Get Left Behind: Leveraging Modern Product Management Across the Organization

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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Deciding the Fate of your Failing Project – Guest Post

Celoxis

There are multiple factors that can contribute to the early closure of a project, including a lack of proper communication, stakeholder conflict, scope creep or the lack of a well thought-out project plan.

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Book of the Month

Herding Cats

I've been working in the probabilistic estimating business for a decade or two. . One of the seminal books that started it all is Short-Term Forecasting. This is the basis of Box-Jenkins and Mr. Jenkins quote that is universally misquoted by most people in the Agile community. All Models are Wrong, Some Models are Useful. As well - of course - is the nonsense that Forecasts are not estimates, popularized by #NoEstimates advocates.

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Why Simple To Do Lists Hinder Projects

Leankor

Creating “Simple To Do” lists seem to be the thing to do when business people are trying to organize their day. We all know how handy the “Simple to do” list can be when we are organizing what we think is important to achieve for the day. Business owners must always be looking for the kind of tools that help them achieve their goals.

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3 Unexpected Benefits of Attending Conferences

Project Bliss

You may think that the only benefits of attending conferences are to gain new knowledge on an area specific to your job title and earning professional certification credits. But there are other benefits of attending conferences that you may not have considered. Or maybe your gut reaction is that conferences are a waste of time. But I’m here to convince you otherwise.

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How to Improve Your Project Leadership with Coaching and Mentoring

Brightwork

Taking an active approach to the development of your leadership style is critical to collaborative project management. You need to cultivate a wide range of practices to use in different circumstances to nurture and guide the team in the right direction. Depending on the situation, you may opt to coach or mentor an individual to achieve the desired result.

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The Project Clinic: Assessing Project Health, Planning, and Execution

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.