Mon.Sep 04, 2017

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Communications Tools: The Project Banner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Communications Tools: The Project Banner , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. If you’d asked me a month or so ago if I’d ever have used a roller banner for my project comms I would have said I didn’t have budget for that kind of thing. A project banner for the staff canteen? It sounds like a luxury my boss wouldn’t have approved.

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Improving portfolio management must be part of an agile transformation

Kiron Bondale

When we think of an agile transformation, improving portfolio management might not be high on the organization’s list of priorities. But what happens if your organization doesn’t have an effective and efficient portfolio management capability? There is a greater likelihood of having too many active projects which increases the risk of resource shortages.

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Project Management Career Outlook – Growth Across Industries through 2027

Project Bliss

Have you ever considered a career in project management? If so, I’ve got great news. The project management career outlook continues to show growth and increased opportunity for the next ten years. Anderson Economic Group (AEG) has conducted the Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017-2027 , and the outlook is phenomenal. The report shows that “on an annualized basis, employers will need to fill nearly 2.2 MILLION new project-oriented roles each year through 2027. “.

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4 signs a project is in trouble

Hydra

4 signs a project is in trouble. Recognising the warning signs that a project is in trouble and knowing when to pull the plug is a valuable skill for project managers when mitigating risk and losses.

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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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Feature Driven Development

ActiveCollab

Feature driven development is a process that provides businesses with feature-rich systems that should help them control their ever-evolving nature. As the name suggests, features are an important aspect of the entire Feature Driven Development (FDD) process. FDD blends a number of best industry-recognized practices which contribute to the business by complementing and reinforcing each other.

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Improve Your Business With TimeCamp – Case Study!

TimeCamp

Freelancers tend to suffer from problems connected with time management. When you work alone and provide your services online to many clients, there’s a lot to be worrying about. The amount of time you work has to be correctly divided between projects and tasks to make sure that you complete everything before the deadline. What’s more, if you are paid by the hour, you need a proof of how long have you been working on the task, so the client will pay you exactly what you deserved.

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How to Deal With Difficult Employees and Turn Them Into Team Players

ActiveCollab

If you came here looking for our advice on creating team players, you are most likely in the midst of one of two given scenarios: either newly added member of your team displays a certain behavior and has trouble fitting in, or you have taken over someone else’s team and realized that there is an individual whose behavior is very destructive for team morale.

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Post-Mortem Meeting Template and Tips | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

Post-mortem meetings are crucial to successful projects. Learn how to conduct a post-mortem meeting and what questions to ask your team using our template.

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Finding Focus as a Digital Nomad

Boost by Brightpod

Finding the motivation and focus to work, even on a project you love, is a struggle that we all go through. There are so many distractions in every day life.

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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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How to create a strong team identity during kick-off

Susanne Madsen

​Project kick offs are often talked about as a single event – or meeting – where the project manager introduces the team to the project, walks them through the project background and ensures that everyone is on the same page regarding expectations, deliverables and responsibilities. But that’s a very limited way of thinking about kick-offs.