LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Speaking of planning, how about your project plans? Or, like so many personal relationships, are your projects just getting by with a ‘good enough’ approach? When I asked my wife about the theme for this article, she rolled her eyes with wonder on how I could geek out so much on project management. Do you love them?

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nTask

MAY 3, 2019

Project Management certifications, or a certified professional are not essential to an organization’s core structure, but their involvement makes a difference in ten folds. Today, technology and businesses have gone through a metamorphosis that has led to such organizations in dire need for certified project managers.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re a small team of freelancers or a large agency, your company needs a project management tool that fits your processes like a glove. Before choosing a specific tool though, you need to decide on the type of project management software you need. Project and resource planning software.

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Planio

APRIL 22, 2024

Project managers are born communicators. An executive summary is your secret weapon when it comes to project communication. Whether it’s a business case, project plan, or market analysis, an executive summary is a great way to get the project’s most important information across quickly and clearly.

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Agilemania

OCTOBER 13, 2021

This is a two-day class intended to train Leaders, Executives and Managers who would be leading the SAFe implementation in the organization. Participants in the class explore the importance of adopting a customer-centric mindset and design thinking approach to agile product delivery. Become a Lean-thinking manager-teacher.

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International Institute for Learning

APRIL 12, 2023

By Rubin Jen It used to be “Scope, Time and Cost” The new words are “Outcomes, Value and Change” For many of us, project management has just gone through a major paradigm shift. Just the other day in one of my classes, a participant asked me how he could avoid scope creep in his Agile project.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. Passing on the Vision to Product.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 20, 2018

There is a saying in the project management business that money comes in two colors - Green and Blue. It is allocated funds to the budget for the project. But in the software development world, the domains of IT, there are two other colors of money. Money comes in many colors. Green here in the United States.

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Teamweek

JANUARY 19, 2024

Such a lack of clarity in time and materials (T&M) projects can result in inaccurate invoicing and revenue loss. For fixed-price projects, miscalculating hours can lead to overestimations, resulting in lost bids. Alternatively, agencies can underestimate the total time needed to complete a project. Actual client work.

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Resource Guru

JUNE 7, 2023

Welcome to part two of our agency project management series. This time, we’re digging into methodologies to help you figure out which approach is the best fit for your projects and your agency culture. Project management styles vs. methodologies Project management styles and methodologies are similar but not the same.

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Paymo App

APRIL 2, 2018

People are gradually becoming more interested in project management as an independent topic and as a possible career. Project management blogs and resources can be a primary source of knowledge, especially if project management (PM) experts contribute to them. Project Management Software Developers.

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Agilemania

MAY 17, 2021

Scaled Agile is an agile framework for developing or delivering large products or solutions produced by multiple teams working in parallel at an enterprise level. SAFe is designed to give teams flexibility and help manage some of the challenges larger organizations have when practicing agile. Passing on the Vision to Product.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. 61, September 2004.

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nTask

AUGUST 8, 2019

We have received an awful lot of requests about extreme programming in waterfall – and that how one could benefit from it as a project manager. Just in case you didn’t know what extreme programming is, it is a form of agile framework where PMs get the best out of available resources in a software development environment.

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Planio

MARCH 14, 2022

Most project managers get stuck chasing milestones and short-term goals instead of using research to uncover user insights and design better apps, sites, and products. Why should project managers care about it? Agile UX: How to fit user research into Agile software development. What is user research?

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Workzone

MAY 3, 2022

Process Management in Project Management and Business Process Management (BPM) are similar concepts. BPM deals with managing and organizing business processes, and so does project management. After all, there are 49 unique processes defined within the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK).

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Teamweek

OCTOBER 20, 2022

You probably already know—Agile isn’t just for software developers anymore. Increasingly agencies, consultancies, and other knowledge-based project teams are adopting Agile as their preferred method to deliver projects. Traditionally, agencies lean on sequential phases and tasks to deliver a project.

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Teamweek

AUGUST 3, 2023

In-house recruiters have a better understanding of your company culture , recruitment process, values and goals, and you can manage them more easily. In-house recruiters vs. External recruiters – how do they differ? TL;DR – Key Takeaways There are two main paths you can take: external or internal recruiters. External recruiters (e.g.

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Planio

AUGUST 9, 2021

The most productive people all follow a simple rule – if it’s not on their calendar, it won’t happen. But instead of a calendar, your ‘must-have’ tool is a project schedule. A project schedule is more than a calendar or timeline. Jump to a section: What is the purpose of a project schedule? Define your project goals.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On the other hand, software work is more than “just a paycheck,” even if it’s less than “a profession” in the sense of medicine or law. Technical Coach (TC): We’re here to help improve the organization, and to help technical teams apply good practices to produce high-quality products.

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Teamweek

JULY 15, 2022

You can have access to the best marketing project management tools but without a clear, documented marketing plan you’re bound to fail. What is a marketing project plan? Marketing strategy vs. marketing plan: what’s the difference? Generate a risk management plan. Gantt project plan. Microsoft Word.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

For example, a web development agency charges $8000 for a website. This is typically done based on calculating how long it will take to complete the project in hours and then multiplying that by your hourly rate. You still charge per hour but also include the cost of materials associated with the project. What is an hourly rate?

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PM Basics

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Project Manager career path has more options. Let’s review the pros and cons of Project Manager vs Scrum Master. Project Manager Career Path. There’s one big benefit in the career of a project manager. You get experience in project management and leadership.

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Digite

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Dave is a Principal Consultant at Depth Consulting Ltd, and Program Director of the KCP Program at the Lean Kanban University. They are attempting to advance the state of the art in work management predominately (but not only) in the area of knowledge work. Similarities. Value-system Influences. Increments. People-centric.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Looking to create a project budget but have no idea where to begin? Cost estimation isn’t simple — but creating a project budget that works for you and your client is practically an art form. So in this post, you’ll learn how to create and manage a winning project budget plan like a pro. You know that saying….

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Need up-to-date facts and figures for a project management report, article, or infographic? Browse this collection of project management statistics collected from studies and reports from the past five years. Benefits of Project Management. —1A. Project Management Methodologies. —1B.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There are obvious difficulties with the project scope. Project Scope is the description of all the work that needs to be done to create deliverables and achieve the project objective. The best tools to describe project scope are Project Scope Statement, Work Breakdown Structure, and WBS Dictionary.

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Teamweek

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Put a rough project cost estimate together and send it to the client for approval–poof, you’ve got a winning project budget. Anyone can create a client budget for a project. So in this post, I will show you how to create and manage a winning project budget like a pro. Project estimate vs. project budget.

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Workamajig

JANUARY 11, 2021

Project management terminology can be complicated. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working towards your PMP certification or simply managing projects casually in your organization, knowing core project management terms always helps. All Project Management Terms.

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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This helps us determine what should be focused on to achieve maximum productivity and accomplish more. In regards to time management, as you prioritize throughout the day to make sure you have time for everything. Now, in order to get closer and closer to your goal, you must decide what projects to fulfill to help you get there.

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Workzone

MARCH 12, 2019

But once you add too many projects, you have an explosion of multi-layered sheets. Though it’s similar to spreadsheets, there is still quite a learning curve for new Smartsheet users to fully take advantage of the software’s feature. Permissions for certain users to access projects, tasks and files. Gantt charts.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 25, 2017

Project management is a big topic, ( there are 13,000 book on project management alone on Amazon ). We made a list of 12 most relevant project management books every project manager needs to read. To be a good project manager, you need more than the technical know-how (eg.

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BeeWits

JULY 3, 2018

These two of the bigger names when it comes to managing projects so we’ll be diving deeply into the features, benefits, pricing, problems and everything else you may need when comparing Asana vs Wrike. Wrike is a project management software that enables you to collaborate with your team efficiently and effectively.

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ActiveCollab

APRIL 3, 2017

Project management is a big topic, there are 13,000 book on project management alone on Amazon ). We made a list of 12 most relevant project management books every project manager needs to read. To be a good project manager, you need more than the technical know-how (eg.

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