Mon.Jan 21, 2019

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What is Project Risk?

Project Risk Coach

If you say the word “risk” to ten people, each person may think of something different— insurance, threats, investments, bets, or potential loss. As we manage project teams, it's critical that you and your team members have a common understanding of what project risk means. Otherwise, people will be confused by your risk management efforts. It is no wonder that there is so much confusion about the meaning of risk.

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IT Risk Management Strategies and Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

Information technology (IT) is no longer a tucked away department with little impact on day-to-day affairs. It’s big business that’s involved in almost every sector of the economy, and therefore carries some major risks. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the importance of IT risk management in this short tutorial video. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference!

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A Scrum Team Increases Their Velocity by Doing Less Work

Scrum.org

Sub-title: Breaking the Iron Triangle. Sub-title #2: Jeff Sutherland’s book could have been called: “Scrum: Twice the decision-making in half the time leading to half the work and twice the output.”. A discussion is raging at LinkedIn about the Iron Triangle because the co-authors of Scrum say that “Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle”. This, you can imagine, causes ripples through the Project Management community.

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Shakespeare on project management

Musings on Project Management

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; and when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection which if we find outweighs ability, What do we then but draw anew the model In fewer offices, or at least desist To build at all? William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part2, I.iii,1598 First seen at heardingcats Buy them at any online book.

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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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4 Awesome Teamwork Examples for Agile Teams

nTask

Teamwork and collaboration hold a significant impact on a project, an organization, and the overall customer drive. Statistics have shown that teamwork boosts productivity and increases project success factors exponentially. The question is how to achieve teamwork? At the end of the day, we are all human beings and embody unique traits in preferences and peeves.

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DPM Podcast: Because I’m Worth It (With Tucker-Sauer Pivonka)

The Digital Project Manager

Do you feel like you have to prove your worth as a project manager? Here’s why the PM role is important and how you can deal with negative views on project management from stakeholders in your projects. The post DPM Podcast: Because I’m Worth It (With Tucker-Sauer Pivonka) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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No Blue Monday Here

MindGenius

No Blue Monday Here. Fiona Macintyre – 21st January 2019. Mid Jan – the point where Christmas becomes a distant memory and summer seems a long way away – it’s no wonder today is referred to as Blue Monday. How are those NY resolutions coming along? Managing to stick to them or have you abandoned them already? Apparently the mid Monday in January or Blue Monday as today is known is the recognised date when post-Christmas bills, dark winter nights, cold weather and the aban

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How to Manage with Servant Leadership

ProjectManager.com

Servant leader. That sounds pretty much like a contradiction in terms, but it is a profoundly important idea. Indeed, I’d argue that servant leadership the single most valuable approach to leadership. And it’s an approach that no leader can afford to ignore. To understand why, we need to ask a crucial question…. What is the Job of a Leader? Is it to lead?

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Employee-Led Innovation (1): Advantages of In-House Idea Development

Inloox

Our latest blog series will focus on idea generation and management and we’ll present you with a number of methods which will help you offer your employees incentives to create innovation because your own employees often have the best ideas and the necessary know-how. Companies are often skeptical when it comes to having their own employees develop and implement ideas.

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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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Top 8 Lessons That You Can Learn From Pratik’s PMP journey

PM by PM

You might have seen my previous blog post. In that post, Pratik Machchar shared a things about his PMP journey. This post is continuation of that post. Here, Pratik has written about the lessons learned during the PMP exam. You should read the first part of this post before reading further. I would like to […]. The post Top 8 Lessons That You Can Learn From Pratik’s PMP journey appeared first on PM-by-PM.

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Quiz: What Your Project Management Leadership Style Says About You

Function Point

Every project manager brings different leadership skills to a team. Some thrive as natural leaders, while others are pros when it comes to seeing all the details. There are many different ways to end up with a successfully completed project, but your project management style shapes where in your project you’re destined for success and where you may stumble.

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Productivity Articles: New Year, New Beginning! 21/1/19

TimeCamp

It’s time for the new dose of Productivity Articles! What’s the idea behind our weekly.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries." — Samuel Johnson (Boswell's Life of Johnson). When you hear anecdotal evidence (which is a sample of one from an unknown population), make sure the person conveying that anecdote has some basis of supporting t

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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.