Ganttic

JANUARY 8, 2017

Resource allocation is a good thing, right? You are managing multiple projects at once. On a Monday, after drafting up a general report, you find that while one of your resources is clearly overbooked for the week with tasks from 4 different projects, there is one resource with the same skillset, that doesn’t have any tasks until Thursday. You reallocate the second resource to the projects that the first one is working on and normalize the workload.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 8, 2017

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects - Tim Lister. Risk Management requires making estimates of many things. The uncertainties that create the risk - reducible (Epistemic) and irreducible (Aleatory), the impacts from the risks, the efficacy of the corrective actions, the residual reducible uncertainty, and any changes in the irreducible uncertainties.

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Musings on Project Management

JANUARY 8, 2017

If you're in the construction industry you probably know about and have experienced "design-build". Notice that there's a word missing after "design", to wit: competitive bidding. Ooops, a typo? No, there is a body of knowledge around this that says that it's faster-cheaper for the same quality to go "design-build" than "design-competitve bid-build".

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The Digital Project Manager

JANUARY 8, 2017

If you’ve started the year and committed to upping your project management skills to be a better project manager, what project management skills are the. The post 7 Essential Project Management Skills for 2017 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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TeamGantt

JANUARY 8, 2017

Can content marketing teams use TeamGantt to manage their editorial content? Here's a sneak peek at how we at TeamGantt manage our own PM blog.

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Kiron Bondale

JANUARY 8, 2017

Demos, or showcases as they are sometimes called, are a critical ceremony when they are run effectively as they address multiple project delivery objectives in a single event including: Validating that what the team has completed to date is valuable from the perspective of their customer and other key stakeholders. Helping the team and stakeholders change or evolve their understanding of the desired solution.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 8, 2017

It is very tempting to rely on what you are experiencing - Marlene Cimons.

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