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How to Do a Project Management Audit

ProjectManager.com

What is a project management audit? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains and shows you in a few simple steps how to do one yourself. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Do a Project Management Audit. Jennifer opened with a definition of the word audit; in its general sense, audit is a verb that means to inspect, examine, check, assess, review or analyze.

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How to Initiate a Project Steering Committee

Project Risk Coach

Someone decided that it was a good idea to bring project management into your organization. Perhaps it was your CEO or operations manager or IT Director. But for some reason, it never took off. Project management has not been supported by your culture. Let's look at how to get things in flight with a project steering committee. What's the Current State?

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The Best Productivity Apps: Boost Your Productivity In 2019

The Digital Project Manager

A review of the best productivity apps that make you more effective with your time by automating, tracking, syncing, and reminding—freeing you up to do the work that matters most! The post The Best Productivity Apps: Boost Your Productivity In 2019 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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What are the 4 Stages of the Product Life Cycle?

Teamweek

When project managers refer to a product they’re working on as their ‘baby’, they’re not exactly wrong. Like a human being, a product is born, grows up, matures, and then passes. These four stages are known as its life cycle. While some product lives are extended (how many versions of the iPhone have there been?), others are expected to pass through these phases before disappearing.

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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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Multi-lingualism

Musings on Project Management

MIT is to open a new College of Computing. That's nice for them Of note, however, is this bit from L. Rafael Reif, MIT President, as quoted in the press The goal of the college is to "educate bilinguals of the future" And, to be clear, bilinguals are people whose 'other interests' are -- among others -- biology, chemistry, politics, history, and linguistics who are skilled in the techniques.

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Improving Communications with DISC

Project Management Essentials

“Improving Communications with DISC,” George Washington University’s Masters of Project Management Program Webinar, October 30, 2018. Communications theory tells us that communications are about the receiver. As project managers we can become more effective communicators by adopting our style to be more compatible with our listeners.

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11 Best Productivity Tools for Developers

TimeCamp

Productivity for Developers Developers don’t have it easy. Often they are the heart of a.

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Gift Ideas: Office and Co-workers

Stepping Into Project Management

And its that time of the year, when we are ready to say thank you and spread on the cheer. For today, I thought I would share some gift ideas that would work for your peers and would be thoughtful and something that can be used in work or home setting. I have kept prices fair reasonable and the ideas very practical that can be used on a regular basis, I do hope you love them :) Desk decor - I like to personalise my desk and space, this piece not only makes the place warm and cosy but definitely

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What’s the Scope of a Unit Test?

Leading Agile

“Unit test” is a funny term. It seems to be the subject of all kinds of debate. Most of that debate is unresolvable, as it involves personal opinion and emotion above all else. Most of the issues people have with the term come down to just two things: The word “unit,” and the word “test.” People can accept the other words in the phrase, as long as we remove those two.

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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