Tue.May 21, 2019

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Five Ways to Identify Your Personal Strengths and Apply Them to Project Work

LiquidPlanner

Does your job leverage your natural strengths? If you’re doing work that doesn’t tap into your greatest strengths, your performance and motivation will suffer along with your career. In contrast, when you’re aligned with your talents and interests, you gain a wellspring of confidence and expertise, and you do great work with a sense of purpose. Everyone around you benefits, as well.

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What Great Managers Do Daily (And You Should Too)

Proofhub

There is no shortage of stories about managers over the internet: bad and good. Get any group of people together and they will have a story to tell. You’re sure to hear some awful stories and some really pleasant ones. “The best manager I ever had”, a not so common phrase most of us have heard. What does this phrase mean? What sets a great manager different from an average one?

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How To Stop Thinking About Work (Even When The Workday Is Over)

Trello

You’re finished with work for the day. You shut down your computer, grab the used coffee cups from your desk, and head home. You’re done. But are you.really?

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Using the STAR Method to Crush Your Next Interview

ProjectManager.com

Some people excel at job interviews, and then there’s the rest of us. The truth is, you are being judged, and it’s normal to feel anxious when you’re under the spotlight. So, given these stressful circumstances, how can you relax and show your best self? Well, there are many ways. First, you should be equipped with the requisite experience and a resume that sums it up.

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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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Find The Best Help Desk Software: 2019 Expert Review

The Digital Project Manager

What is helpdesk software, and how do you choose the right one for your business? Here’s a list of the top helpdesk tools and the criteria we used to evaluate them. The post Find The Best Help Desk Software: 2019 Expert Review appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What is a Construction Project Manager Responsible for?

Taskque

A construction project manager can be construed as the conductor of an orchestra. They direct fellow workers and provide instructions so that all team members can work together harmoniously to create a flawless, high-rise marvel in the form of Burj Khalifa. While the project manager is responsible for ensuring the success of a project, this job cannot be done alone.

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Creative Reframing - Strategies

Scrum.org

In the previous video , I spoke about the creative reframing technique, that coaches could use as a facilitation or professional coaching tool. This video goes over two main strategies that can be used with the method, namely, Backing from Solutions to Needs and What's Unchangeable about This Problem. . . In the next video , I will wrap up the discussion fo the creative reframing technique by discussing some activities that can make it more useful.

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Easy Projects Named Leader in G2 Spring 2019 Project Management Software Report

EasyProjects

Toronto,ON (April 1st, 2019) — Easy Projects, an enterprise work and project management software platform is featured on G2’s Spring 2019 Grid Report as best in class Project Management Software. The Spring 2019 Grid® Reports are based on a unique algorithm that calculates in real-time customer satisfaction and market presence scores. Over 45,000 software companies were included in the review in various categories.

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Will AI Actually Take Over 80% Of A Project Manager’s Job?

The Digital Project Manager

The post Will AI Actually Take Over 80% Of A Project Manager’s Job? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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About that coordination thing.

Musings on Project Management

We're all supposed to coordinate. That's written somewhere in the PM literature and taught in bureaucracy school everywhere. And so I was impressed with this bit of wit(*): "Successful coordinating mechanisms depend on mutuality. The greatest chance of success derives from mutual benefit tied to sufficiently high priority programs Lesson learned: you haven't coordinated if the other person.

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Why is Openness Important to You as a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

As a Scrum Master, I know that serving Development Team, Product Owner and Organization to adopt Scrum is not easy. It takes time (and a lot of time) and patience. During that long journey, I recognize the importance of continuous improvement. I need to "make up my mind" every day, keep myself up to date along with continuous learning. By doing so, I can adapt myself and find better ways to support the Scrum Team and Organization to maximize values with Scrum. . .

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How to Prioritize Daily Personal Tasks Using the 1-2-3 Method

Inloox

Daily Task and Information Overload Many people have the feeling that the world spins faster today. And not only in their private lives. In our jobs, too, we struggle with a lot of information. More information, more e-mails, more projects - in our everyday working life, more and more tasks and challenges compete for our attention day after day. Your to-do list is also getting longer and longer, and it is sometimes difficult for you to identify the important tasks?

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Scaling Approvals and Decisions

Scrum.org

When a lot of organizations are transitioning from the way they used to work to a more cross-functional, agile squad way of working, they usually look for scaling frameworks to help them do it. . They’re usually worried about how to scale the practices, but the thing that really gets in the way is scaling the decision making and approvals. This is especially true when we have centralized, rather than distributed functions.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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How to Prioritize Daily Personal Tasks Using the 1-2-3 Method

Inloox

Daily Task and Information Overload Many people have the feeling that the world spins faster today. And not only in their private lives. In our jobs, too, we struggle with a lot of information. More information, more e-mails, more projects - in our everyday working life, more and more tasks and challenges compete for our attention day after day. Your to-do list is also getting longer and longer, and it is sometimes difficult for you to identify the important tasks?

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