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7 Things You Should Not Do When Identifying Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

Known and unknown, internal and external, upside and downside—risks are woven into the fabric of every project. Project managers can waste a lot of time due to poor risk management. In today’s article, let’s look at seven things not to do when identifying project risks. 1. Don’t wait. Dan the project manager just kicked off a new project, adding stress to his life.

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How to Become a Project Manager: 3 Ways to Get A Job

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The projects that you read about in the media are often high profile, with budgets in the multimillions or even billions. They all seem to be led by highly experienced project managers who have the confidence and skills to deal with the complex sociopolitical environments of their projects, international and virtual teams and other factors that make their work particularly challenging.

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Tips for Women Entrepreneurs

ProjectManager.com

Women are reaching the highest rungs of the corporate ladder. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, offers advice for women seeking to take the next step and become entrepreneurs. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Tips for Women Entrepreneurs. The headlines are full of women rising to the top of their chosen industries, Jennifer said, but there is less talk about women entrepreneurs.

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2018 Digital PM Summit 4th – 6th September, Memphis

The Digital Project Manager

If you’re wondering how to spend your digital project management training budget this year, look. The post 2018 Digital PM Summit 4th – 6th September, Memphis appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Scrum will change your organization!

Scrum.org

When delivering a Professional Scrum Master training or helping clients creating awesome products with Scrum, some people ask me how to adapt (downgrade) Scrum to make it work in their organizations. My answer is always the same: Scrum will change your organization! Let me explain why it cannot be the contrary. 1 –Hierarchies have been proven to be useful for repetitive work.

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New Feature: Weekly Digest 2.0

Teamweek

Weekly Digest is an email that reports your progress on a weekly basis. We send it every week, believing it provides much-needed feedback to your planning flow. Teamweek is usually seen as a planning tool. But we also think about what happens after planning. If you’ve laid out a project, worked for a while, marked tasks done and rearranged your plans to better fit your reality – how do you know you’re doing well?

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Is Your Software Development Team a Well-Oiled Machine?

Leading Agile

To call a software development team a well-oiled machine may be taken as a compliment or an insult. Software development isn’t mechanical work, and machines belong in software factories, and nobody likes the idea of a software factory. (Well, maybe somebody does, but that’s not the point.) On the bright side, the phrase can denote a team that functions very well.

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6 Best Productivity Podcasts for Remote Work | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

Remote work can put a real dent in productivity. Optimize your workflow with these podcasts so you can get more done and still have room to breathe.

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Best Online Project Information Management (PIM) data management for any system solutions

WorkOtter

Best Online Project Information Management (PIM) data management for any system solutions Project Information Management (PIM) Project Information Management is focused on managing large volumes of information generated by a specific project. Throughout the life of a project, a huge volume of drawings, e-mails, and other documents might be created. Effectively managing project documentation has […].

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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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Leading High Performing Teams

Scrum.org

Throughout my career I have helped many leaders adapt their style to one that better supports teams reach a high-performing state. Across a wide range of different industries the patterns of high-performing teams, and how leaders help shape them, have some striking consistencies. I can clearly recall one of the highest performing teams I ever worked in.

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Productivity Articles: Achieve Your Goals This Summer! 16/7/18

TimeCamp

Sunday, Funday! Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from the.

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Exciting News| Relaunching- Connect

Stepping Into Project Management

Today, I want to share some exciting news with you all. This goes long back, few years after I started the blog. I felt it was wonderful meeting amazing project management professionals from all over the world and learning from them and being mentored. I also knew that this is something that might be difficult for a lot of people to do, because you might not know whom to reach out to, or lot of times people are busy and perhaps don’t reply back to a mail of a newbie.

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SharpSpring Integration with TimeCamp

TimeCamp

At TimeCamp we are doing everything in our power to equip our clients with the best.

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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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The Beginner’s Guide to Using Project Planning Software

Paymo App

When was the last time you got lost in your project work because you didn’t plan ahead? To increase your chances of success, you need a defined plan. Unfortunately, not having one is still common in practice for smaller teams in particular. Picture this: Your task list is forever growing, new team members are showing up every three weeks, and your client is always asking for last minute changes.

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10 Essential Web Tools Your Startup Should Be Using

Teamweek

Your new business has launched and for the most part things are running smoothly. Your website is functioning properly and your new employees have been hired and trained. Things are going okay, but there is always room for improvement. As you go through your days, you find there are still some things you haven’t found solutions for quite yet. While there isn’t an all-inclusive list to tell you every single step you need to take in preparation for running a startup, the list below is a great star