Wed.Jul 12, 2017

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Pam Shergill

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this installation of the occasional series of Inspiring Women in Project Management, I’m interviewing Pam Shergill, Director of PS Management Consultancy. Pam and I talk about how she got into project management by ultimately making herself redundant, and how she manages to get two months off a year. Pam has amazing energy and is the kind of person who grabs every opportunity.

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Benefits of Project Portfolio Management : A Competitive Advantage

Project-Management.pm

Both the market and business industry are putting more pressure on organizations in terms of visibility and improvement. Organizations are struggling to make relevant and maintain the reputation that they have been safeguarding for the past years. It’s a jungle out there and everyone is bent on surviving. Putting more work for company growth isn’t always that favorable.

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5 Tips for Setting Up Agency Retainer Billing

Function Point

In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.

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Capabilities Release or Cadence Release

Herding Cats

Business runs on deadlines and milestones for a simple reason - Time is Money. Those paying for the development of a product or service have an expectation that they will get the value from their investment on some date in the future. The longer they wait for the Value to be returned the less their Return on Investment. Time is Money - Ben Franklin's advice to a young tradesman.

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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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5 Tips for Setting Up Agency Retainer Billing

Function Point

In service-based industries, retainers are becoming a popular way to build long-term relationships with your best clients, provide a higher level of service and ensure cash flow. Creative agencies and freelancers are understanding the benefits of providing their clients with retainer-based services, but it can be difficult to know how to get started if you’re new to this form of billing.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

There is no good way to perform a software cost-benefit analysis, breakeven analysis, or make-buy decision without some reasonably accurate method of estimating software costs and their sensitivity to various product, project, and environmental factors - Barry Boehm.

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SwiftKanban Feature Update Release – July 2017

Digite

With the release of SwiftKanban July update, we have introduced new usability and functional enhancements. Enhanced Card Designer. Exporting Cards Hierarchy. Comment on Multiple cards Simultaneously. Enhanced Card Designer. Link card, Comments, Attachments, ToDo and Flag icons can now be hidden from the card via the card designer feature. Exporting Cards Hierarchy.

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How Marketers Stay Productive: Hana Sutch of Go Jauntly

Boost by Brightpod

This week we feature, Hana Sutch, Co Founder/CEO of Go Jauntly. Go Jauntly is a walking app that bring you happiness outdoors. Discover walks, curate your ow.

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How to Work and Travel? Top 5 Tips for Digital Nomads!

TimeCamp

Working remotely makes us more flexible than the people who are spending their working hours in the office. As soon as there is an opportunity for an expedition, remote workers do not have to go out at least a month in advance. They just pack their computer and mobile devices and they’re done! They work where they want to be! A few weeks ago I wrote about the disadvantages of remote work and I realize that this lifestyle is linked to certain inconveniences, which are usually the result of

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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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Create a Project My Work Report in SharePoint

Brightwork

So let’s say you’ve gone through the effort of creating a project management site template in SharePoint, complete with all sorts of lists for capturing all important project related data. Good for you! You’re well on your way to using SharePoint in one of the best ways it was intended to be used. But what good is all that data if it’s hidden away in various corners of the project site – wouldn’t it be better if that information bubbled its way up to more readily accessible locations on the site

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July Product Update: Seamlessly Allocate and Schedule Resources with Project Limits

LiquidPlanner

Dedicating all of your work hours to a single project is becoming a rarity in today’s multi-tasking work world. For many teams, working on multiple projects at the same time has become the norm, which makes effective management of resources and timelines even more important. Without it, project managers may spend hours seeking out status updates; team members don’t always know what work is the highest priority; and managers are left wondering how their team is allocated.

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