Tue.May 02, 2017

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How to connect business strategy with project management

Moira Alexander

To align business goals with project management (PM), leaders from the enterprise project management office (EMPO) or project management office (PMO) need to be involved in strategic planning sessions alongside senior-level management. The foundation for overall business success and project initiatives starts here, making it imperative for executive sponsors to be in sync with project leadership out of the gate.

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Every reader is an individual

Musings on Project Management

Sometimes we lose sight of individuals in the never ending grasp for the big picture. So, it is nice to be able to thank Peter H. for his compliment. So often, the annual statement from the publisher is "lifeless" -- though the check is nice. I read your book Project Management the Agile Way : Making it Work in the Enterprise. It is great. Peter H. Project Manager in retail,store and.

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7 Signs Your Project Management Tool is Working for You

LiquidPlanner

Imagine this. You walk into your Monday morning stand-up meeting. Everyone’s there, coffee in-hand, smiling. Why are they smiling, on a Monday no less? Because last week’s project was completed early and under budget. Smiles on a Monday morning is just one sign that your PM solution is working. Here are seven more: Your project schedule is up-to-date and reliable.

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Goal Setting For Project Managers

The Digital Project Manager

– “Would you tell me, please, where I ought to go from here?” – “That depends a good deal on where you want to get. The post Goal Setting For Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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INFOGRAPHIC: Keeping Your Project team Engaged with PM Software

Celoxis

INFOGRAPHIC: Keeping Your Project team Engaged with PM Software.

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Project Manager vs. Product Manager (and Other Jobs)

ActiveCollab

Many titles include project management in their job description. Does this mean that, for example, a product manager does the same job as a project manager? Well, yes and no: product managers do work with the same material as project managers (like time and resources), but they have different goals and work under different constraints. What’s a project manager’s job.

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4 Ways to Boost Team Performance

Brightwork

Picture this: the project is nearing completion, your stakeholders love your outputs, and the team is laser-focused on the deadlines. Suddenly, your star player starts to underperform. They stop contributing at meetings, are frequently late, and the quality of their work declines, forcing other team members to pick up the slack. The project is finished on time, but you are frustrated and unsure of what to do next.

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Seven essential coaching questions

Susanne Madsen

I recently read The Coaching Habit – a great little book about how we can get better at asking questions rather than simply offering up advice. The book makes a case for seven essential questions and it made me reconsider what my own preferred questions are. Managers and leaders need to become better coaches I fully buy into the philosophy that managers and leaders need to become better coaches (and not use a megaphone as the above picture suggests).

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Best Status Tracking Software – Be Up To Date With Everything!

TimeCamp

If you want to manage the status of your orders, projects, shipments, or any other item of that sort as efficiently as possible, you cannot do it on your own. You shoulder too many other pending tasks as to trouble yourself with it. You are not all-mighty. Keeping that in mind, why should you not […].

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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