Tue.Mar 27, 2018

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Prediction -- signal and noise

Musings on Project Management

Are you a predictor or a predictee? Actually, for this posting it doesn't matter This is about the qualities of a prediction, for which I am drawn to the book "The Signal and the Noise: why so many predictions fail -- and some don't" by Nate Silver Silver lays out three principles to which all prediction should adhere: Think probabilistically: all predictions should be for a range of.

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Spreadsheets: Why Project Managers Love Them & Hate Them

The Digital Project Manager

Project managers have mixed emotions about project management tools that trigger both advantages and drawbacks, The post Spreadsheets: Why Project Managers Love Them & Hate Them appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Make the Most of Your Free LiquidPlanner Trial

LiquidPlanner

Perhaps you’ve been visiting our website for a while now, reading blog posts and watching videos, but you haven’t used our software yet. Or maybe you’ve just learned of us, and you’re on the hunt for a new project management tool. Interested in LiquidPlanner? Start your free trial today. Whatever your reason for starting a trial, we want to help you make the most it.

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The Scrum Values (poster)

Gunther Verheyen

While developing my book “ Scrum – A Pocket Guide ” (2013) I described how there is value in the Scrum Values. In 2016 the Scrum Values were added to the Scrum Guide. As part of an on-going translation initiative by a group of international enthusiasts I have created a poster of the Scrum Values, now available as a free download (PNG): The Scrum Values (poster).

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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 Create Reusable Project Management Templates (Asset)

PM Basics

Almost all project management resources on the Web provide “project management templates” to download. I get it. People are looking for a shortcut or inspiration. Why would you invent the wheel if there are templates out there? Well, I think you are shooting in your own foot with such approach. Here is why: Universal Uselessness. The best templates should fit all the projects.

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Leave Planner | Team Leave Plan Calendar Template

Techno-PM

Leave Calculator - Team Leave Plan Calendar Planning is a crucial phase in project management. A project manager whether managing a large or small project, needs to provide an approximate estimation of the project timeline which also takes into account the risk of the project dates being impacted if people go on planned/unplanned leaves. Leave Planner for Planning leaves on a month on month or annual basis, helps the project managers to plan things better and ensure that the project is not impac

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Top 9 Marketing Blogs for 2018

Boost by Brightpod

We interviewed over 150 marketers to understand the tips and tricks to their productivity and how they manage to bring their marketing A game to work every day. We compiled all that data together and here’s a list of their top blogs they religiously follow and read every day.

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Importing a list of projects into Resource Guru using Zapier

Resource Guru

Our Zapier integration makes it easy to connect Resource Guru to your favorite apps, but you may not know that you can also use Zapier with Google Sheets to import a list of projects into your Resource Guru account. Read the step-by-step guide below to find out how. Before you get started. It is not currently possible to associate a Client or set the Billable/Non-Billable status for a project while importing with Zapier.

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Feedback – Why Is It Critical to Improve Employees’ Performance?

TimeCamp

Feedback seems to be an integral part of every work. We often hear that getting.

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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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How Are Your Projects Running? Are Your Plans Working?

Meisterplan

“And how are your projects going? Are your plans working?” The Meisterplan team including Valerie, Birgit, Anne, Christoph and two huge chalkboards were at the PM Welt (PM World) in Munich, where they asked these two questions to everyone who stopped by the Meisterplan booth. After 12 hours and nearly 150 conversations, the two boards were just as full as our heads were full of information.

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Modeling the Future Using Empirical Data from the Past

Herding Cats

This is a quote from Twitter today that says. Various projective practices upon trending have been used to forecast progress. These have proven useful. However, these do not replace the importance of empiricism. In complex environments, what will happen is unknown. Only when what has already happened may be used for forward-looking decision-making. This, of course, would mean that climate models, compressible fluid flows, stock markets, automatic landing systems, fracture mechanics, any closed l