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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Despite your efforts to clearly define the scope, time and resources necessary to successfully complete the projects, things simply don’t always go according to plan. Maja Mrsic Here are 3 examples of projects that didn’t go to plan. During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”.

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What Is Construction Administration? Why It’s Important and Key Responsibilities

ProjectManager.com

There’s a lot of work that goes into construction long before any ground is broken. For one thing, there’s the contractual agreement between the owner and the construction general contractor that has to be adhered to throughout the project. Overseeing that process is called construction administration. Construction administration is not construction management and we’ll explain why.

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How to improve shared learning within your team?

Scrum.org

Teams are more effective when they expand their learning process to include other teams, departments, management, and stakeholders. The scientific literature often treats them as open systems that are embedded in larger systems. This means that how effective a team can be is often negotiated on its boundaries. No team can be truly effective when it lacks the technical tools or proper support from management and other teams.

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Project Management Checklist for the Modern Agency [download]

Function Point

Delivering amazing, creative work is only a small part of the battle when it comes to running a successful agency. The emphasis on creative delivery is understandable–good work is what your clients came to you for, and good work is what gets you paid. But a lack of emphasis on the agency project management process can seriously derail your creative team’s best efforts.

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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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Practical PM for Everyone

PM Times

Project management is a process that, when done well, enables optimal performance. Why wouldn’t everyone want to know how to manage projects? Everyone Has Projects A project is an effort to create a result in a finite time. According to PMI, “a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service […] The post Practical PM for Everyone appeared first on Project Management Articles, Webinars, Templates and Jobs.

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Why Team-Level Agile Isn’t Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

True Business Agility requires a lot more than team-level Agile. It requires an integrated operating model across the entire organization, where all the different parts of the business are plugged into an Agile System of Delivery, and it operates as an integrated whole. Otherwise, you won’t ever unlock the full potential of team-level Agile or Agile at Scale.

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The Agile Project Manager

International Institute for Learning

By Rubin Jen It used to be “Scope, Time and Cost” The new words are “Outcomes, Value and Change” For many of us, project management has just gone through a major paradigm shift. VUCA (Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) isn’t a theory anymore, it’s our everyday project environment now. With the advent of different delivery methods, customers and stakeholders have gotten used to making more changes than ever before.

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Streamline Your Operations with Scoro’s Native Xero Integration

Scoro

As small agencies, consultancies and other professional service organizations grow, accounting software is often one of the first bits of technology that they implement, and Xero is by far one of the most popular solutions. Having a reliable and automated way to manage your finances is a vital step on the road to success, but what about all the other parts of your business?

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Commitment to a Culture of Appreciation, the 5th C of Acknowledgment

International Institute for Learning

By Judith W. Umlas Once you see the joy and vitality that appreciation, acknowledgment, and gratitude engender in all stakeholders, you will want to find ways to create a culture of appreciation at your office, in your family, and throughout your community. There are so many simple, yet effective ways to create this culture: through dialogue, focus, and reminders, for example.

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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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Outputs and outcomes—A story by Dr. Al Zeitoun

Resource Guru

Last week , Holly Davis, Principal Delivery Manager at Torchbox, talked about complacency, ownership, and project scope. This week, Dr. Al Zeitoun, PgMP, PMI Fellow, and Senior Strategy Director at Siemens, shares the story of when he learned about what really matters when it comes to project success. You can read all the stories in our latest eBook, Confessions of a Project Manager.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Become a Scrum Master

International Institute for Learning

By Tactec Team Scrum Masters are an important part of an agile team as they are responsible for mentoring, teaching, coaching, and facilitating teams on how to be high performing and self-organizing by applying Scrum practices, values, and principles. As the name implies, they are the master of the “Scrum” but not a master of the team or a project. While the role may sound simple, it’s very complex and in order to be successful and effective, the person requires a nice balance of soft and techni

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8 Examples of Job Requirements to Attract Great Candidates

Teamweek

When job seekers scan job descriptions, they typically run through a mental checklist of the job requirements section: “ Good at this, have experience with that, always wanted to learn this, 3 years of experience managing a CRM? Nope, they won’t take me. ” And just like that, you lose great-fit potential candidates. To attract qualified candidates that fit your company culture (and don’t self-reject after learning the job duties), you need an accurate list of essential an

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Prioritizing Power Skills: Gratitude, Appreciation, AcknowledgmentWith Dr. Rodolfo De Acutis and Judith W. Umlas

International Institute for Learning

The ability to inspire, engage and empower the project team, and being credible and trustworthy with stakeholders are power skills that organizations increasingly value in high-performing project managers. Using these skills can help you lead successful teams, engage stakeholders, and conquer challenges in the project plan. Power skills also enable you to ask team members to run the “extra mile”, appreciate them in both an authentic and profound way, and manage, communicate, and escalate project

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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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What’s the Difference between a Scrum Master and a Project Manager?

Wrike

When it comes to managing projects, Scrum and Project Management are the two most commonly utilized approaches. Although both aim to deliver projects successfully, they differ in their processes and methodologies. In this article, we will explore the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Manager and provide insights into their roles, responsibilities, and skill sets.

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What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? | Video

Online PM Courses

In this video I answer, what is Artificial Intelligence? 2023 is OnlinePMCourses Year of Artificial Intelligence in Project Management. The post What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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MoSCoW Method of Prioritization

ActiveCollab

Our daily routine includes many tasks; most of the time, we will have enough energy and time to tackle them all. But what happens when the number of tasks doubles and resources become scarce? That's where prioritization comes in! This term relates to a process that helps you filter tasks you must complete in order of importance. Organizations use advanced prioritization techniques [[link] for complex projects that contribute to better decision-making.

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7 Best Time Tracking Apps for Small Businesses

Teamweek

Time tracking is the best solution if you want to track accurately where your team’s time is going and improve the profitability of your projects. But with over 600 time tracking apps out there, it can take time to pick the one that can help with your particular challenges and must-haves. I’ve tried various time tracking software over the years when working for small businesses.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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14 qualities of a project manager (+ practical interview tips)

Resource Guru

The best project managers go the extra mile for their teams. Not only do they wrestle with undefined gray areas to find win-win scenarios for all stakeholders and remove roadblocks that prevent people from getting work done. But they go beyond Gantt charts and project schedules to cultivate a happy and productive work environment. So how do they do it?

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With Hindsight: Toggl Plan’s Quarter 1, 2023

Teamweek

As the first quarter of 2023 ends, we’re excited to unveil the latest updates to Toggl Plan. You’re in for a few treats! In the last three months, we’ve added ? A running timer ⏲️ with our Plan-Track integration More flexible scheduling to recurring tasks ? New client timeline to overview a client’s ongoing projects ? One-tap task scheduling on mobile devices ?

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