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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This presentation is showing up again. When it first appeared, I thought, the author needs to do his homework. Now that's it's coming back, time to deconstruct the Principles one at a time. . Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process. This is simply good process development and management. Can't go wrong here, except for a critical issue.

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How to Improve Client Communication

TeamGantt

There’s a lot more to project management than tasks and timelines. You’ve got clients to keep happy too. Juggling projects and client relationships can feel stressful—but it doesn’t have to. Effective client communication can ease the pressure and set you up for project success The importance of client communication as a project manager Knowing how […].

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DPM Podcast: Project Manager Responsibilities (With Patrice Embry)

The Digital Project Manager

Are you an average project manager or one that's destined for greatness? The difference is not so much about what you do, it's all about how you do it. Ben Aston talks to Patrice Embry to discuss how we can take those everyday responsibilities of a project manager and do them better. Find out what you should really be doing to separate yourself from the pack, and accelerate your PM career.

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Project Management Tools: Work Plans, Action Logs, or Both?

LiquidPlanner

“Dear Elizabeth: I use very simple tools to manage my projects. My projects are small scale, and I generally just verbally update my client or send a weekly progress note. I have a work plan, which is a list of activity areas with sub-tasks down one column and dates across the top. This is what I use to record the actions required to deliver the project.

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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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How to Make a Project Timeline So Your Team Always Meets Its Deadline

Teamweek

One of, the most important tools any project manager can use is a project timeline. Anyone can make a timeline. It’s really not that hard. But making a timeline that works? It’s harder than it looks. What do we mean by that? Well, constructing a project timeline requires more than just adding names and dates. It’s about getting as detailed as possible upfront so that you don’t have to stress sweat through three shirts a day because you forgot what you need to be doing.

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SwiftKanban 5.0 is Here

Digite

SwiftKanban 5.0 comes with a host of new features and key enhancements. Here are the highlights: Dependency Board. Leverage the newly introduced Dependency Board to keep track of the important workitems that are dependent on each other for completion and need to be executed in a synchronized manner. To know more click here. Toolbar Pinned on the Kanban Board.

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A great day for collaboration

ActiveCollab

For those of you who’ve been looking to improve your team collaboration, this is going to be a great day. The Reactions are up and running in ActiveCollab 5.15.0 ! We are bringing you a new way to make your day-to-day communication more expressive and engaging. Not all comments are created equal. More often than not, all you really need to do is give a thumbs up to a good idea your teammate just posted or give a simple feedback on a proposal you’re discussing.

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3 Reasons for Which You Need Unproductive Activities

TimeCamp

Productive Unproductivity The topic of productivity is on the rise. Wherever you look around, you.

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Deconstruction the #NoEstimates Conjecture

Herding Cats

This presentation is showing up again. When it first appeared, I thought, the author needed to do some more research because most of the principles presented here are erroneous in principle. And the practices are not connected to any principle. Now that's it's coming back, time to deconstruct the Principles one at a time. Principle #1 - Trust Your Process, or Change Your Process.

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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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Lo and behold - ActiveCollab emojis Reactions

ActiveCollab

You probably noticed a nifty new feature in our latest software update. This is a story about seven brave emoji, how they found their way into ActiveCollab and became ActiveCollab Reactions. Since their creation in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita, emojis have been an integral part of our everyday communication. Just like their more primitive ancestors - the emoticons - emojis represent a natural, almost universal means of communicating, that transcend language barriers by tapping into o

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