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Top 7 Resource Management Best Practices for Professional Services Organizations

EasyProjects

The most valuable asset in running a successful professional services organization are your resources. Effective resource management is critical to utilize your resources to their full potential, so your team can deliver the best possible results. Resource Management Defined. Not to be confused with human resource management, resource management in professional services organizations means organizing the necessary resources to complete tasks and projects efficiently, produce quality work and, mo

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The Project Management Coaching Workbook (Book review)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Project Management Coaching Workbook by Susanne Madsen is a book about how to operate with a coaching leadership style in a project environment. “It is not your ability to manage tasks and resources that will set you apart,” writes Susanne Madsen in The Project Management Coaching Workbook. “It is your ability to manage relationships and lead the team to success through your vision and engagement.

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What Is JotForm Tables & How Does It Manage Project Data?

The Digital Project Manager

The post What Is JotForm Tables & How Does It Manage Project Data? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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[VLOG] How Can Management Manage Agile "Transformation" Anxiety?

Scrum.org

Do you know anyone in a management role who is part of an "Agile Transformation" (I prefer "Agile Enablement"). How are they doing? Are they experiencing any stress or anxiety? If they are, this video might give them some tips on how to manage "Agile Transformation Anxiety". .

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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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Industry, Product, and Technical Knowledge: What Makes a Project Manager an Expert?

Epicflow Blog

Regardless of your skills, background, and experience, you probably have asked yourself a question at least once: what kind of knowledge do I need to be a competitive expert in project management? What what’s more important for my career? Needless to say that solid knowledge in the theory of project management and familiarity with PM software are the foundation of professional success.

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Introducing the Plan and Track Integration!

Teamweek

Toggl Plan is thrilled to launch our native integration with Toggl Track. The new integration provides an easy way to start and stop timing your tasks from within Toggl Plan, and automatically pass the data through to your Toggl Track workspace. It’ll only take a couple of minutes to connect your accounts and get started. Keep reading to find out more about how it works, and how to get started in this blog post: What can I do with the integration?

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Six (yes 6) Ways to Hear The Lazy Project Manager Speak

The Lazy Project Manager

Check these out – 6 (yes six!) chances to hear Pete. Why Stakeholders regularly Ignore your Project Reports and how to Fix that – Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:00 GMT [link]. By Invitation Only: AI in Project Management ‘a deeper discussion’ – Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:00 GMT – message me for details if you lead a lead of 25 or more. The Project Management Software Selection Struggle – Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:00 GMT [link].

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10 Ways to Add Tasks in Toggl Plan

Teamweek

If there’s two things the Toggl Plan team love, it’s shortcuts & the flexibility to choose our own way of working. Just recently we launched a new shortcut for one of the most fundamental things you can do in Toggl Plan – creating a task. It made us think of all the other ways the same thing can be achieved. There isn’t a right or wrong way, rather to each their own.

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PMP Live Lessons Success Story: Never Give Up, Victory is Right Around the Corner

Management Yogi

By Vinny Dsilva, PMPIntroductionI was introduced to the Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification by one of my friends who was aspiring to take up the certification. After doing a bit of research myself, I was clear that I wanted to get certified as a PMP. Having around 10 years of experience back then, I knew that PMP certification would really help me have an edge to my career.

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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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11 Ways Taking Notes Can Boost Productivity at Work

Proofhub

While you won’t be fired for not jotting down everything that happens at your daily meetings, it will boost your productivity. That’s right, taking notes isn’t just for school anymore! You’ll probably be surprised by just how much note-taking can affect your workday (in a positive way, of course). This is especially true with ProofHub’s smart note-taking solution that makes it easy and efficient to take notes, both as an individual or team.

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Overcoming an Introverts Fear - Johnna Danielle

PM That Works

To get to the web page of the radio show, click here. To download the mp3 file, click here. To subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, click here. This transcription was completed through an automated service. Please excuse any typos or misrepresented words. VoiceAmerica 0:07 One problem facing people at many levels of business is how to make time for a work life and a personal life.

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Beware Tech Solutionism and How to Avoid it

PM Times

Written by: Richard Larson We all like solutions, right? Problems are troublesome things and solutions make them go away. Well, yes and no.

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6 Useful Strategies to Plan Your Day

nTask

Planning your day is something that most of us don’t give much thought to. Yes, we have a rough idea about what we want to do during the day, but most of us don’t have anything properly planned on paper, or in an app. This is a huge weakness on our part because planning your day, ahead of time, is one of the most important things that you should do every day.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Under pressure? A ‘can-do' attitude won’t help you deliver webinar - Author: Maya Creasey

APM

This webinar explodes a myth. No matter what people have told you: when the pressure is on – a 'can-do' attitude doesn't help!

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Trust, Not Surveillance: An Interview With the Toggl Track CEO on What Sets Us Apart

Teamweek

Before Toggl–the triple threat suite of productivity tools–there was Toggl the timer. It was born within a software consultancy in response to a question that no other app seemed able to answer: Where was all their time going? More than a decade has passed since these software consultants created the timer and founded Toggl (now Toggl Track) , but the basic premise hasn’t changed.

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The 31 Best Icebreaker Questions for Meetings in 2021

Teamweek

Why you need meeting icebreakers. Icebreakers are questions or exercises to help new teams get to know each other better. The idea is that teams that know each other better as people also work together better as team members. Team bonding can lead to heightened creativity, better project management and increased productivity. Team bonding is all the more important in a world where many team bonding meetings have to be virtual.

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27 Gift Ideas for Remote Employees (That Will Not Blow Your Budget)

Teamweek

At work, there are certain crucial rules of business etiquette. Gifts for employees are not crucial, but they can be a nice way of showing your staff some appreciation. Regardless of what holidays your colleagues celebrate, the end of the year can be a chance to improve team morale. But once you’ve decided that you want to do the whole gift-giving thing, what do you actually give your employees?

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.