Project Risk Coach
AUGUST 29, 2016
How to use key risk indicators Which would you prefer? To respond to risks after they occur or to see the risks early and take steps to prevent or reduce your risks? I’ll take the latter, thank you! Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. Project managers can get ahead of their risks by thinking differently. Rather than focusing on past performance only, consider how you can anticipate when future threats and opportunities may occur.
Moira Alexander
AUGUST 29, 2016
Project management has many facets and anyone of them could derail even the best-laid plans. Recognizing the signs of an impending disaster can give a project manager the "heads up" before it happens. To help you spot the telltale signs, here are some of the more common signs grouped into three key categories. 1. High-level objectives. Missing strategic tie-in: Difficulty easily and clearly tie the project purpose and goals back to company-wide objectives is one of the biggest signals that proje
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Kiron Bondale
AUGUST 29, 2016
Primary roles on agile delivery teams are expected to be fully dedicated to the one project or product that they are supporting. Depending on the scope and context of a project, certain specialized roles such as database administrators might support delivery activities during specific iterations, the core analysts, developers, designers and testers need to focus on that one project or product to avoid incurring the velocity and quality-impacting fruits of multitasking.
The Digital Project Manager
AUGUST 29, 2016
Posted in General. Project management tools often make the mistake of trying to be everything, to everyone. They create masses of functionality without a real vision of workflow and how the tool might be used by ad agencies and their clients to deliver projects. They start loading in masses of functionality for every type of agency and work but without any real focus.
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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.
Stepping Into Project Management
AUGUST 29, 2016
Lindsay Scott is a Director at Arras People , the programme and project management recruitment specialist in the UK. She’s also founder of the PMO Flashmob and PMO Conference. She is PMI’s PM Network career columnist and writes for TwentyEighty Strategy Execution and Project Challenge. Lindsay is also Co-Editor of the Handbook of People in Project Management.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
AUGUST 29, 2016
I took my APMP exam recently, at the culmination of five days of study. It was quite an effort – it has actually been a while since I’ve been out of the workplace to do a course that lasted that long (or to do any formal training, if I think about it). It was a great excuse to focus on the basics and to take a break from the busyness that is a normal working week.
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