Wed.Jan 24, 2018

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7 Steps for Dealing with a Difficult Team Member

Project Bliss

You do everything right. You plan your project well and get stakeholder sign-off. You plan for risk. You follow your checklists and double check to be sure. But you’ve got a difficult team member who constantly causes trouble. You’ve got enough to worry about without this added to the mix. You need to know how to handle this and stay focused on your project, rather than worrying about these more challenging behavior problems.

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Project Management Tools for Event Planners

TimeCamp

Concerts, sporting events, charitable collections, festivals, industry conferences ? each and all can cause a headache, particularly those who are responsible for organizing such occurrences are at high risk. Everything can go wrong. Deadlines may be missed, the budget exceeded, resources pushed to the limits, helpers confused and not able to cooperate with each other.

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Getting Personal to Achieve Project Management Success

Workzone

How personal are we talking here? We’re talking about being consultative and helpful and getting to root needs and pains, not getting into your grooming habits…unless you really want to! We are unique here at Workzone. We offer a ton of support – much more than others in the project management space – so we’ve come to really understand and decipher needs and pains our customers face.

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Project Management Tools for Admin Assistants

TimeCamp

Some may say that administrative assistants working life is a misery. They have to be constant multi-taskers, juggling tasks and responsibilities like professional circus artists. Planning projects, bookkeeping, providing customer service, establishing and using authority to get things done, making people cooperate ? all those duties are the daily bread to administrative support specialists.

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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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Scheduling. how did we get here?

Musings on Project Management

Patrick Weaver gave a talk at Primavera06 about the history of scheduling. His talk is captured in an interesting paper: "A brief history of scheduling: back to the future" Patrick is somewhat of a historian and prognosticator on matter such as these. He also has written: The Origins of Modern Project Management: www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Resources_Papers_050.html ‘Trends In Modern Project.

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3 Ways to Deliver a Consistent Project Management Approach

Brightwork

One of the common challenges with deploying project management to an organization, or to a new group or department, is the differing needs and experience of the end users in that group. As a result, getting people to start managing projects with any kind of consistency can be a real challenge. In these scenarios, practically everyone involved in project management has their own way of doing things.

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Introducing TimeCamp + Trello Power Up!

TimeCamp

Happy to announce TimeCamp has been recently added to Trello Power-Ups, a new directory for Trello’s add-ons! Now you can turn your TimeCamp and Trello integration into a real productivity powerhouse. We spent a lot of time describing how Trello and TimeCamp integration works: How Can You Track Time for Your Tasks in Trello? or Top Trello Integrations!

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3 Ways to Deliver a Consistent Project Management Approach

Brightwork

One of the common challenges with deploying project management to an organization, or to a new group or department, is the differing needs and experience of the end users in that group. As a result, getting people to start managing projects with any kind of consistency can be a real challenge. In these scenarios, practically everyone involved in project management has their own way of doing things.

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Project Management Tools for Students

TimeCamp

Most of the people, especially those of the older generation, believe that time spent at the university is the best period of one’s life, for which such a person will yearn. A typical prevailing conviction is that nothing, in fact, bothers students, neither professional obligations nor their family, they are free like a bird, and so on. Maybe there is a grain of truth in it, but it’s ONLY a grain.

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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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Say Hello to the TeamGantt iOS App | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

TeamGantt has a mobile app, with iOS and Android versions available. Now you can update tasks and coordinate your team from anywhere.

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Stay on Top of Your Work With Mark Sanborn! [PODCAST EPISODE #6]

TimeCamp

Stay On Top of Work With Mark Sanborn! We’re back with another episode of our podcast on how to stay on top of your work. Today I talk with Mark Sanborn, an international bestselling author and noted expert on leadership, team building, customer service, and change. Listen to what Mark said about leadership. What does it mean to be a good leader and why leader is like a conductor of the symphony.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act — attributed to George Orwell, opening line in Icarus .

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