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Meet Eunice: The Office Unicorn

Function Point

Meet Eunice: The Office Unicorn. If you’ve ever worked with a fantastic project manager, you’ll understand why the role is frequently graced with nicknames that range from “guru” to “wizard”. You’ll probably also know that these experienced, amazing project managers are pretty rare and hard to find. Looking for the perfect project manager to match your agency’s creative team can feel like hunting for an office unicorn.

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Some "$10 words" in Risk Management

Musings on Project Management

When you get into risk management a bit, there are some biggies that get thrown around -- I call them $10 words -- and there are two that more or less divide risk management along the lines of. The unknown that is possibly knowable with some legwork The unknown that is likely to remain unknowable First case For the first case, this is all about knowledge, the nature of knowledge, and how.

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Working From Home Is Not Remote Work

Trello

Let’s get one thing straight: Technology has changed. The ability for employees to work outside of an office is more feasible now than ever. So why are some people raving about remote work while others are ridiculing it?

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How to use a Simple Gantt Chart to Reverse Engineer a Complex Project

Teamweek

If you’re managing a complex project, a simple Gantt chart may be the perfect tool to help you keep track of all the moving parts. You don’t have to be an expert to use one, we’ll show you why you it’s useful and how to set up your first Gantt chart. . How to use a Gantt Chart. So, what is a Gantt chart? A Gantt chart has a very simple definition and an even more simple application.

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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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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Capabilities Based Planning is Planning, under uncertainty, to provide capabilities suitable for a wide range of modern-day challenges and circumstances while working within an economic framework that necessitates choice. This process requires making estimates of cost, schedule, and technical performance to increase the probability of program success as defined by with Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Technical Performance Measures, and Key Performance Parameters.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Capabilities Based Planning is Planning, under uncertainty, to provide capabilities suitable for a wide range of modern-day challenges and circumstances while working within an economic framework that necessitates choice. This process requires making estimates of cost, schedule, and technical performance to increase the probability of program success as defined by with Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Performance, Technical Performance Measures, and Key Performance Parameters.

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Capability Mapping w/ Dean Stevens

Leading Agile

In this episode of SoundNotes, Dean Stevens and Dave Prior dig into Capability Mapping, how it works and why it is such an important part of the transforming your organization. . Capability Mapping is a technique that can be used to quickly gain greater awareness of how an organization does what it does, what processes it uses to do what it does, and where there are opportunities to remove waste and optimize flow. .

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Meet Eunice: The Office Unicorn

Function Point

Meet Eunice: The Office Unicorn. If you’ve ever worked with a fantastic project manager, you’ll understand why the role is frequently graced with nicknames that range from “guru” to “wizard”. You’ll probably also know that these experienced, amazing project managers are pretty rare and hard to find. Looking for the perfect project manager to match your agency’s creative team can feel like hunting for an office unicorn.

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Since your last visit

ActiveCollab

No, you did not miss an emergency alert for an incoming asteroid. All is well. But just like the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and similar warning systems have to stay on top of a continuous flow of information, so does your business. Missing that important piece of insight from your team’s discussion thread won’t lead to flash floods and asteroid impacts.

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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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DPM Podcast: What’s Your Status (With Robyn Reynolds)

The Digital Project Manager

If you've ever got yourself in a pickle on your projects because you didn't have written evidence of your discussions with your clients, then this episode is for you! Ben Aston talks to Robyn Reynolds about the often forgotten status report and how they can save your bacon. Find out what you should put in it, how you can make them less of a pain to create and make them useful for you, the client and your project team.

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5 Ways LiquidPlanner Helps Manage Resources

LiquidPlanner

Effective resource management is essential to the success of any project. As a busy project manager, you have enough to do keeping various plates spinning without wasting your precious time herding cats as well. In addition to the other benefits that an online project management tool brings, LiquidPlanner, a resource management tool, delivers a host of features that will help you manage all your resources without breaking a sweat.

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Transforming Project Delivery for the Commercial Solar Industry

Leankor

Transforming Project Delivery for the Commercial Solar Industry. Commercial solar project delivery is highly complex process that, at any given time, involves multiple teams across multiple locations and time zones. The life cycle of each project is typically 9-12 months, with many teams and thousands of employees assigned to it, each with their own sets of deliverables at each stage of the project.