Ron Rosenhead

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most of the articles written on this blog site come from a mix of research, working with clients and stories told to me. This one is a mix of working with clients and a story told. Let me set the scene. I was working with a long standing client and I asked the group what was the main project management problem they wanted to solve. There were a wide mix of issues raised and then one person said: “My problem is that I am very busy and then senior managers come along and slap a project on top of t

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 10, 2017

How does it feel? To be on your own. With No Direction Home. Like a Complete Unknown. Like a Rolling Stone. — Robert Zimmerman (Born May 24th, 1941, professionally known as Bob Dylan). Without a Plan, a Roadmap, a Strategy, a description of Done in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers, all adjusted for uncertainty— both reducible and irreducible and no estimates of the impact of those risks on your project— you're proceeding into the complete unknown and likely don't even know it.

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The Digital Project Manager

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When setting out to write this, I intended to focus on our agency’s slight (but important) shift to Scrum in recent months. This is happening. The post 5 Tips For Making Process Improvement Easier appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Celoxis

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The context of productivity has gone through a world of change in the last decade. Companies were following the traditional manufacturing through the process of measuring resource output against hours. That’s the productivity formula anyway. Today productivity means a lot more than just more done output per resource. Productivity has evolved into a more holistic concept with a focus on collaboration, process innovation, and business outcomes.

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Hydra

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A handy infographic of five top tips on how to manage remote project teams effectively.

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Brightwork

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In this blog post, I will explore how you can track projects before you start fully managing them! And this ironically will help you manage them! “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” ~ Mark Twain Why Only Project Tracking? Why would we resort to, or maybe start with, merely tracking projects as distinct from fully managing projects? Well, there are at least two reasons: The project might be quite small or perhaps it’s a project that you find very easy to deliver as you have don

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Runrun.it

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Until recently, knowledge was for the few. To learn something, you would need to take a course, turn to a specialist or spend weeks at a time looking through books and other sources. The internet was still unavailable for most of us, and the amount of information that could be found on it was far […]. The post The Knowledge-Based Economy: Are You and Your Company Ready for the New Era?

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