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How to Be a Productive Project Manager: 7 Tips

Project Risk Coach

Many project managers feel overwhelmed with emails, phone calls, and meetings. They often work overtime, but few feel as though they are making progress. Although we are all given the same amount of time each day, some project managers are able to produce greater value for their organizations. Some are more engaged. Imagine yourself as a more productive project manager, one with greater capacity and energy to complete each day’s tasks.

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How to have bigger impact by deepening your project communication

Susanne Madsen

We often say that one of the most important roles of a project manager and leader is to be able to communicate effectively. Being the hub of the project, the PM communicates with team members, stakeholders, end users and the project sponsor – all of whom have different preferences for how they would like to be communicated with. Some people prefer email and written status reports whereas others favour telephone and face-to-face interactions.

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Limiting Class Size to Maximize Value

Leading Agile

When the pandemic started, we had to move our CSM and CSPO training to an online format. For the certification courses, the Scrum Alliance recommends not more than 30, but for LeadingAgile’s CSM and CSPO classes, we set a target class size at 15 with a max at 18. There are a number of reasons for this: Value Delivered. In each class, we run 3 in-class retrospectives and an end-of-class survey.

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How to complain less and do more

Scrum.org

. Complaining is like releasing gas. It’s a natural occurrence. Everyone does it. But no one wants someone else to do it next to them. We all complain. I believe branding this behaviour as a binary concept like “good” or “bad” rather than evaluating it in a spectrum doesn’t help at all. Because both extreme ends of this spectrum harm trust. Acting like we are sublime creatures who never complain fosters artificial harmony and politics in the environment, which can easily turn into an impediment

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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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Course Review: RMP Live Lessons–A Must-Have Course if You Are Serious About Risk Management

Management Yogi

By V Satya Viswanadha Raju, RMP, PMPWhy this Course?After completing my PMP certification, in less than a year the COVID pandemic started. The current challenges and risks that were evolving in my project along the current pandemic. My organization's approach has also changed with respect to risk management. It made me think more on Risk Management, primarily identification, planning and.

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How To Develop New Habits

Teamweek

Developing new habits certainly doesn’t sound as bold and ambitious as setting big, audacious goals and going all out to achieve them. But the truth is, habits account for about 40 percent of our daily behaviors, according to research. This means changing your habits is the most effective way to change your life. That’s why mastering the art of building healthy habits is the most effective way to achieve your goals and become the person you want to be.

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Getting More done| Time Management

Stepping Into Project Management

If you woke up every morning and could see the amount of work you get done everyday, you would pat yourself everyday. Getting more done always doesn't mean waking up at 5am, it can still be managed with these 3 simple tips depending on the kind of work you do and the style you prefer. 1. Prioritization 2. Time Blocking 3. Visual Boards More in the video below: Which one is your choice of time management?

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How to Create and Customize Filters

MPUG

In MS Project, filtering is a way to see or highlight only the task or resource information that meets the criteria you choose. Filtering does not change any underlying data but changes what data is displayed. You can use filters in two ways. Apply an AutoFilter from a column heading in a table or apply a built-in or custom filter you create to your view.