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How to Make a Cost Management Plan

ProjectManager.com

You know how it goes—you’re a few months out from a deadline, and your team isn’t anywhere close to finishing the project. You’re quickly running out of budget and time, and you’re starting to stress. Should you tell the stakeholders, or wait a little bit longer? Well, you’re not alone at least, as this situation happens to more than 45 percent of all large-scale IT projects.

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The Project Risk Management Quiz

Project Risk Coach

Webinar: How to Create a Project Risk Management Plan Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Time: @ 10am PST / 11am MST/ 12pm CST / 1pm EST. register now. The post The Project Risk Management Quiz appeared first on Project Risk Coach.

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How Leaders Can Develop Great Remote Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Remote work is growing in popularity, but succeeding as a remote manager isn’t the same thing as being able to manage remote workers effectively. Unfortunately, managers who lead partially- or fully-remote teams — but who don’t have remote work experience of their own — may not understand what employees need to be successful in these environments. Whether you’re a new remote team manager or an established leader looking to improve your remote management skills, keep the following nine tips in mi

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How Can Leaders Retain Key Talent Through Unexpected Change?

ProProfs Project Management

We’re only a little way into 2020, yet we’ve already rung in several changes — from the Australian bush fires to uncertainty in the Middle East, to shake-ups in the Royal Family. And in business, we find ourselves firmly in an era of transience, where it’s often said that change has become the ‘new normal’. Deloitte recently published their 2019 Insights report highlighting that annual US mergers and acquisitions alone run into the trillions, with no expectation of slowing for the foreseeable fu

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Understand Digital Debt, Form a Team, Set Goals, and Plan Roadmap for Transformation

Understanding digital debt is crucial before digital transformation. Assemble a team to assess internal operations, market pressures, and digital debt's impact. Define future digital vision with measurable goals. Refine hypotheses and conduct market analysis. Develop a roadmap for transformation with defined projects, cost estimates, and governance.

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Develop a Strategy to Embrace Change w/ Marty Bradley

Leading Agile

Talk Overview. Markets are changing faster than typical strategic planning cycles can support. Additionally, digital strategies are increasing interdependencies and exacerbating the strain on execution. Strategic planning often falls short because it’s not as fluid as it needs to be. One thing we must consider is that their areas typically a lot of assumptions being made about markets as well as the organization’s capacity to execute.

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10 Tips for Good Meeting Minutes

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Minutes help with communication at work – they ensure people have a common understanding of what the meeting was about and what they should be doing next. In this article we’ll look at why minutes are worth doing and then dive into the 10 tips for taking effective meeting minutes. Why bother with minutes? Minutes are particularly helpful for formal meetings like Project Boards as they serve as a permanent record of the discussion and the decisions that were taken.

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Introducing Agile Project Management

Wrike

Agile project management is one of the most effective project management strategies in the world and is successfully used by companies and PMs everywhere. For many PMs, understanding Agile project management and how to implement it for a better overall strategy could be the key to unlocking more efficient workflows and processes. . In this article, we’ll discuss what Agile project management is, its benefits, and how it can be best utilized within your organization. .

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Communicate Faster with Comments & Mentions in Toggl Plan

Teamweek

With this feature, which eventually allows real time collaboration in Toggl Plan, you can have a conversation about any task, right where your planning happens. Write a comment or ask a question, and use “@” + Name (e.g. @LauraLaasi) to make sure the right people see it. All notifications about comments will be delivered to your e-mail. To receive them, make sure to follow the task you’re interested in by clicking on the three dots on top right.

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Hitting the "Wall"

Bridge the Gap Consulting

It was somewhere between mile 21 and 22. I’d felt it coming and was trying to prepare myself. My legs went from feeling OK to jelly. My body started to hurt in ways I’d never experienced. This marathon had to end. I wanted to be done. I hit the “Wall” If you’re a runner, you probably know what I’m referring to. You get to a point where you feel physically, and usually emotionally, spent and don’t want to move forward any more.

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Strategic Project Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Metrics

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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Project Economy (With Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez)

The Digital Project Manager

In this episode, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez tells the story of project-based work through the centuries. The post Project Economy (With Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Never serve raw chicken!

Scrum.org

Never serve raw chicken. The Story. A businesswoman enters a restaurant called Amazing Burgers. Amazing Burgers is renowned for its fresh and juicy burgers. It’s a small and popular place where the owner still serves his customers himself. The kitchen is visible from the dining room through a large glass window, so guests can watch the chefs at work.

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Should Your Project Have a Second Project Phase? | Video

Online PM Courses

You've delivered your project. But now your client/sponsor wants a second project phase. How can you integrate this into your project? The post Should Your Project Have a Second Project Phase? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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27 Sprint Anti-Patterns

Scrum.org

TL; DR: 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns Holding Back Scrum Teams . Welcome to Sprint anti-patterns article from our series on Scrum anti-patterns, covering not just the three Scrum roles, but also the stakeholders as well as the IT management. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 25k other subscribers. 27 Sprint Anti-Patterns.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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The Future of ActiveCollab Release Notes

ActiveCollab

ActiveCollab 1.0 was released more than twelve years ago, and we have documented a detailed list of changes for almost all releases since then. Despite that heritage and experience, it has become tough to map a particular set of changes to a particular version in the past couple of months. Our development and deployment process radically changed since we switched to Cloud and added more teams, and it is no longer “version number friendly.

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Top 13 Motivating Team Building Exercises Your Team Will Love

TimeCamp

Team building activities are becoming more popular. That’s because they strengthen relationships between the team.

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Three Tips for Working with Microsoft Planner

MPUG

Microsoft Planner is a great way to create plans and work on them together with coworkers. The software includes a very nice mobile app which allows users to quickly access plans and upcoming tasks. In this article, I’d like to share three tips that I find very useful when working with the Planner application. Tip 1: Link to Office 365 and MS Teams (current or new).