Fri.Jan 12, 2018

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Six Reasons Why Project Managers Need PPM

Meisterplan

Dear project manager, You are doing a great job. You work hard on your project. You look after your team and work together to complete the project with the best possible results and on time. What you don’t need is more work, more reporting and more processes. And that is just what it seems project portfolio management would create for you. But project portfolio management isn’t just a process that creates more work, and it brings benefits to more than just senior management.

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How to Determine If a Project Management Tool Can Scale

Workzone

We’re talking about growth here right? Growth can take on many forms – revenue growth, business growth, or team growth. What does “growth” mean in the context of project management software? More projects to complete. More users to add and train. More reports to create and share. More conversations surrounding projects. More clients to interface with.

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Culture and Successful Projects

Velociteach

A big thank you to one of our very own Velociteach Instructors, Alan Zucker, for creating the content for this blog. You can subscribe to his blog and see the sources of this content by following this link: [link] Project management has a consistent and unimpressive performance record. The Standish Group’s on-going survey of project performance […] The post Culture and Successful Projects appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

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Retrospective: Look back with some structure and process

Lynne Cazaly

The end of a project, calendar year or quarter and there can be lots to wrap up, finish up and look back at. For some of us, things just keep on keeping on. The calendar or end of project may be irrelevant; perhaps there's not even a whiff of time to slow down to review anything. When you do have a moment to pause, reflect, gather some thoughts or input or review in readiness for what's ahead, here's a little something for you.

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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

Far from being close-minded killjoys, most scientists in the “never aliens” camp desperately want to be convinced otherwise. Their default skeptical stance is a prophylactic against the wiles of wishful thinking, a dare to true believers to provide extraordinary evidence in support of extraordinary claims. - Scientific American , January 11, 2018. If we replace Aliens and Scientist with Finance and Management and the phrase we can make decisions in the presence of uncertainty without estimatin

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