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Stressed at Work: Why Your Employees Are Stressed, and How To Help

Teamweek

A recent sketch from American TV show Saturday Night Live almost perfectly defined the way many are feeling at this point–month 12–of the COVID-19 pandemic: I was fine through the fall but now I’ve hit a wall and I’m loco, as in my brain done broke-o. The lyrics are meant to be comical and irreverent. They also speak to an honest reality for across the country and around the world: we’re stressed at work.

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How to Make & Maintain a Project List

ProjectManager.com

A project list is the starting point for any project management process. They’re a great way to take what seems an insurmountable amount of disparate tasks and organize them. A project list can be as simple as a to-do list or a corral for many projects. Using a project list is so important it’s worth taking a moment to explore what it is, how to create one and how it fits into managing your project with project management software tools.

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Backlog blocked?

Musings on Project Management

Yikes! My backlog is blocked! How can this be? We're agile. or maybe we've become de-agiled. Can that happen? Ah yes, we're agile, but perhaps not everything in the portfolio is agile; indeed, perhaps not everything in the project is agile. In the event, coupling is the culprit. Coupling?

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12 Best Avaza Alternatives that You can Use in 2021

nTask

Are you looking for the best Avaza alternatives that you can use to help you with resource allocation, handle task dependencies, and easily manage all of your recurring tasks that are a part of your project development process? In this article, we have 12 of the best software for you to end your search. These are some of the most impressive software in the market that you can use if you are not compatible with Avaza.

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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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The Definitive Guide to Hybrid IT

Wrike

It’s hard to believe how much technology has evolved over just the last 20 years. In the year 2000, less than 7% of the world was online. These days, more than half of the global population has internet access. Naturally, this evolution has had a significant impact on businesses and organizations that rely on information technology — aka IT — to power their operations, ensure connectivity, and secure their data.

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Big time zone improvements

Resource Guru

As we all know, time zones can be mind-boggling. Apart from the mental conversion gymnastics, clocks regularly go forwards and backwards. Does that mean you’ve lost time or gained time? Do you have to wake up earlier or later? And what happens with colleagues in other time zones where there are no clock changes? Will they need to come to the meeting earlier or later than before?

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Ensuring Smart Work Management Processes for Agile Project Managers In 2021

nTask

Project management process is a complex maze that not everyone knows how to ace every single time. There are a lot of different elements and substances associated with it that make it as unpredictable as it is. But if you have a process or plan in mind related to the needs and requirements of your project, then it is a piece of cake. For that, you need to have a work management software like nTask that will take care of the planning and task scheduling for your project management process, but ev

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Meet the relentless pace of fibre rollout with quality data

Sitetracker

Last week we attended Project Rollout, the UK’s most important virtual event on the road to a gigabit-capable Britain. With over sixty expert speakers and 750 virtual attendees, Project Rollout provided comprehensive and interactive coverage of all the important issues, technologies, and strategies in 2021. A few of the big themes discussed were around using data to make informed decisions, the role of technology in the rollout of networks, and changes with Covid.

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How To Use Excel For Project Management (+Free Templates)

Teamweek

Small teams and businesses prefer using excel for project management for its availability, familiarity, and cost-effectiveness. Further, templates make it easy to get started with Excel project management quickly. But what are the best practices when using Excel for project management? That’s what you’ll learn in this article. Here’s what we’ll cover: When Should You Use Excel For Project Management?

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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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5 Best Strategies to Manage Multiple Projects in 2021

nTask

Project managers nowadays have a lot of different projects because of the diversity factor that goes into simultaneous business development. That is why, in this article, we are going to talk about how to manage multiple projects using many different effective strategies to generate positive results every time. So, let’s dive right in and find out, in detail, about these strategies, and how they can help us in our work.

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New feature – Multi-resource bookings

Resource Guru

Brilliant news!! Much sought after multi-resource bookings are here You’ve always been able to add multi-resource time off events in Resource Guru and it’s frustrated many of you that bookings haven’t functioned in the same way. Well now they do. You can add as many people and other types of resource as you like. Now, if you want to book a team and a meeting room in a single event, you can.