223 How to Write a Clear Opportunity Statement for Better Problem-Solving
Project Bliss
AUGUST 29, 2019
When you set out on a problem-solving effort, it’s important to be clear about the problem you’re going to solve.
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The Osborn Parnes Creative Problem-Solving Process
Project Bliss
JULY 30, 2019
The Osborn Parnes creative problem-solving process is a structured way to generate creative and innovative ways to address problems. If you want to grow in your career, you need to show you can provide value. This is true no matter where you sit in an organization.
How to Create an Easy Pareto Chart to Highlight Your Biggest Opportunities
Project Bliss
AUGUST 19, 2019
A Pareto chart is a bar especially designed to show information in descending order. Read on to learn when to use it and how to easily create one. . If you’re not analytically inclined, don’t let the idea of creating a Pareto Chart put you off.
Why You Need a Project Steering Committee – And How to Create One
Project Bliss
JUNE 11, 2019
A project steering committee can provide the extra support, guidance, and leverage to give your project an increased chance of success. Your project has a good chance of failing. With a large project, there are many moving pieces, unexpected risks, and change is often difficult for customers.
Organizing for Customer Centricity
Speaker: Tatyana Mamut, Head of Product, Nextdoor
Most companies today say they are “customer centric.” Yet many still make decisions primarily based on competitor threats, technical architecture, or executive opinions. So what sets apart those that talk the talk, and those that walk the walk? Join Nextdoor's Head of Product Tatyana Mamut, PhD as she outlines the 7 habits of truly customer-centric companies.
25 Amazing Quotes to Inspire You During Tough Times
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
I’ve been writing a lot lately about problem-solving skills. These are great ways to grow your skill set, and a perfect skill to make you more valuable in the workplace. Problems are going to arise no matter where you are in your career.
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5 Simple Ways to Make Your Project Team Love You
Project Bliss
APRIL 14, 2019
Whether you’re new to your team or you’ve been leading them for months or years, it’s never too early or late to endear yourself. And finding ways to make your team love you is good not only for you.
7 Problem-Solving Steps to Conquer Even the Toughest Problems
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
These 7 awesome problem-solving steps can help you solve difficult problems, identify opportunities, grow your leadership skills, and take your career up several notches. When you see peers in your organization handling big problems, are you ever amazed at how they do it?
5 Reasons the Best Project Managers are in Sales & Marketing, Too
Project Bliss
JULY 10, 2019
You may not realize it but as a project manager, you are also in sales and marketing. Sure, your primary job may be to plan and execute projects that are delivered on time, and within budget and scope. But if you’ve created a great product and nobody uses it, have you really delivered to value?
Supercharge Idea Output With Starbursting Brainstorming
Project Bliss
APRIL 25, 2019
Starbursting brainstorming is a structured technique to help your team come up with lots of ideas in many different focus areas. Use this approach to easily guide your team to generate tons of ideas for your product or service. Does the idea of brainstorming make you anxious?
Walk a Mile in Your Customer's Shoes
Speaker: Steven Haines, Founder and CEO, Sequent Learning Networks
Product professionals use phrases like "voice of the customer," and "user experience" so often that it can be easy to lose sight of their actual meanings. How can we, as product professionals, learn to keep customers and users at the heart of our work? Join Steven Haines, globally recognized thought leader and author, as he guides us through a memorable journey demonstrating how you can walk a mile in their customer's shoes. He'll explore how, by developing true empathy for your users, you can ensure you're creating the features and products they actually want.
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Agile Practices: How to Run a Lean Coffee
Project Bliss
MAY 16, 2019
The term Lean Coffee doesn’t sound like a productive meeting session. But that’s EXACTLY what it’s intended to be. It’s structured in a way that allows participants to quickly talk through various topics they choose in a short amount of time. Sounds promising, you say?
20 Easy-to-Use Assertive Communication Skills for Confidence and Respect
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Photo credit @hengfilms. In your workplace, you communicate regularly with many people: stakeholders, customers, and other team members. You’ll encounter demands and excuses and deadlines. Schedules can be demanding, and workloads can be stressful.
Plan Do Check Act – PDCA Cycle for Continuous Improvement
Project Bliss
JUNE 27, 2019
The PDCA Cycle is an easy-to-understand, repeatable approach for working toward continuous improvement. Teams and organizations are constantly striving to find better ways of working. Many organizations have to do more with less – whether it be fewer people or less money.
Simple Guide to Business Process Mapping – a Valuable Skill All Project Managers Need
Project Bliss
JANUARY 22, 2019
If you’ve been asked to complete a business process map it may feel overwhelming. You may have an idea of what that is, but you want to be sure you do it right. It’s not intuitive at first, but once you learn how, it’s much easier than you think.
How To Take Action on Customer Discovery
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
We all want to build successful products - and that means satisfied customers. Before anything else, you must understand what problems you can solve. The best way to do that is to get out of the building and start asking questions. But how can you make the most of those conversations, and ensure that you walk away with productive insights? Join Nick Noreña, educator, entrepreneur, and currently Innovation Coach and Advisor at Kromatic, as he covers how we can effectively action our findings from customer discovery conversations.
9 Reasons Why Problem Solving Skills are Critical for Your Career
Project Bliss
JANUARY 30, 2019
When considering your career, you’re likely looking for a way to set yourself apart from everyone else at work. You may be looking for ways to grow in your career. And you’re possibly wondering what skills will be most beneficial.
Use an Affinity Diagram to Easily Organize Ideas and Information
Project Bliss
JANUARY 8, 2019
An Affinity Diagram is a tool that helps you group or organize large amounts of information based on theme or relationship. Imagine you’ve just led a fantastic brainstorming session with your team. You’ve had great participation from all attendees.
Deming’s 14 Points – It’s All About Quality
Project Bliss
APRIL 30, 2019
Even if you’ve never heard the name Edwards Deming, you’ve been exposed to Deming’s 14 points for quality improvement. They’re used in TQM (total quality management) and other quality-improvement methods commonly used today.
7 Great Ways to Measure Career Success – or Signal it’s Time to Make a Change
Project Bliss
MARCH 31, 2019
I was talking with my niece one day and commented on all the buzz about Millennials in the workplace. I mentioned that many websites were playing up that Millennials want jobs that are meaningful. Her immediate response to me was, “Doesn’t everyone want that?”
Task Management For Project Managers
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How can project planning that stretches over months or years remain relevant and account for new ad-hoc activities that arrive every day?
5 Whys Root Cause Analysis: a Problem-Solving Tool to Get to the Root of the Problem
Project Bliss
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
The 5 Whys root cause analysis tool helps you quickly get past surface assumptions. It helps you dig deeper so you can solve the root cause of the problem. . What is the 5 Whys Root Cause Tool? The 5 Whys is a simple tool used to help you understand what’s really causing a problem.
What Can a Project Manager Do Next? The Project Manager Career Ladder
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 3, 2017
Have you ever wondered what career path could be next on the project manager career ladder? There are many possible options where you can apply the valuable skills you’ve honed as a project manager. I previously wrote about the different career paths that can lead to project management.
How to Use the Ishikawa Fishbone Diagram as an Awesome Problem-Solving Tool
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 22, 2018
An easy explanation of how to use this powerful problem-solving tool with a simple fishbone diagram example. Have you ever been faced with a problem you didn’t know how to address? It seemed that there were many contributing factors and you didn’t know where to start?
3 Simple Charts and Graphs You Should Be Using to Make Your Next Project Presentation More Powerful
Project Bliss
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Charts and graphs are a great way to share important information about your project. These three simple charts and graphs will help you communicate project information in a way your audience can take in quickly.
Make an Impact with Analytics and Journey Maps
Speaker: Kirui K. K., Co-founder and CEO of Tanasuk Africa
If you want to offer a better user experience, it can be tempting to track each and every data point in your product. However, this can quickly get complicated and overwhelming as you collect more and more data. How do you know which metrics will help you improve? Kirui K. K., Co-founder & CEO Tanasuk Africa, wants you to know that analytics don't have to be complicated to make an impact - no matter the size of your company. Join him as he explains how to create a customer journey map, then use that map to figure out the metrics you need to know - and how to use them.
How to Run a Successful Brainstorming Session for Productive Problem-Solving
Project Bliss
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Brainstorming is an approach that teams can use to generate many ideas quickly. The goal is to inspire more creative thoughts to generate many ideas quickly and often build from there.
3 Easy Agile Practices Your Team Can Start Today
Project Bliss
JUNE 7, 2017
Photo credit rawpixel.com. You’ve heard your friends sing the praises of Agile. Your project manager buddies are becoming scrum masters. You hear how great it is. All the cool kids are doing it and you’re a bit jealous. You’re feeling left out. You want to see what all the fuss is about.
5 Ways to Instantly Build Rapport for Increased Trust and Improved Relationships
Project Bliss
MAY 17, 2018
The ability to build rapport with others is often seen as a mysterious skill to those who don’t have it. Many people have a hard time connecting with and building relationships easily with others. They’re often frustrated that communication isn’t as easy as they’d like it to be.
The Value of Project Management in the Ministry: How Pastor Terrell Monger Uses Project Management in his Church
Project Bliss
OCTOBER 16, 2017
When you think of using project management skills, there are some industries that come to mind first. Technology, construction, healthcare, financial services, and law are some of the top industries hiring project managers right now, according to this article.
Managing The Project Budget - Developing Your Project Management Skills
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This eBook describes the process of managing the project budget and its associated costs.
9 Great Reasons to Choose a Project Management Career
Project Bliss
APRIL 30, 2018
You may be wondering if a project management career is a right choice for you. You’ve likely heard a good bit about it – it’s getting more attention in recent years. But maybe you’re not quite sure if it would be a good fit.
5 Styles of Effective Listening That Will Make You Smarter
Project Bliss
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash. You may think knowing styles of effective listening won’t mean much or matter to you. But think about this… When someone is talking to you, do you find yourself thinking of what you’re going to say next rather than really listening?
9 Best Practices for Your Daily Scrum Meeting
Project Bliss
JUNE 19, 2017
When my team first started holding a daily scrum meeting, it honestly felt awkward. I was accustomed to meetings with in-depth communication. So at first, the act of the team standing around giving brief answers felt stilted and strange to us – or maybe it was just me.
How to Use Paraverbal Communication for More Powerful Engagement
Project Bliss
AUGUST 19, 2018
You’re hopefully choosing your words carefully and crafting the message you want others to take away. But words alone aren’t enough. Your paraverbal communication plays a big role in how your audience sees you.
Your Post-Launch Toolkit for Understanding Your Users
Speaker: Brittney Gwynn, former Director of Product, Simple Health
If you've ever launched an MVP, you know that the journey has only just begun. How do you figure out what to do next? You know that you need to look at how different user segments react, but how do you quickly distinguish signal from noise so you can iterate and improve? Join Brittney Gwynn, former Director of Product at Simple Health, as she explains how you can use early customer feedback, usage data, and continuous experimentation to optimize your journey to product-market fit. Whether you're at a brand-new company, or looking to innovate within a more mature organization, or anywhere in between, you'll come away with a new skill set, ready to make the most of your launches.
When and How to Say No to a Project
Project Bliss
AUGUST 31, 2018
You may feel like you don’t have the right to say “no” when your boss asks you to do something. But sometimes it can feel overwhelming or stressful, depending on the request. You want to be seen as a team player. You want to be a reliable employee and admired by both your boss and your peers.
10 Essential Qualities of Great Project Managers
Project Bliss
MARCH 7, 2017
Project managers work in a dynamic role. It can change from day-to-day. For this reason, the qualities of project managers who excel are diverse. Because project managers are responsible for doing so many different things, their job descriptions aren’t simple.
Project Managers Change the World
Project Bliss
DECEMBER 19, 2017
It’s not only visionaries and dreamers who change the world. It takes more than just an idea to make a change. The idea must be put into motion – it must be executed. And that’s what Project Managers do. Ideas Without Action Have No Impact. People come up with ideas every day.
The Project Sponsor Role: How a Great Project Sponsor Helps you Succeed
Project Bliss
AUGUST 8, 2017
Having a great project sponsor can contribute to the success of your project. But what should you expect from the person serving in the project sponsor role? What can he do for you and your project? And how can the person in the project sponsor role help support your project’s success?
Top 5 Project Management Report Templates
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