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7 Skills You Need to Master as a Project Manager

TrustRadius Project Management

Being a great Project Manager means wearing a number of hats. Not only do you have to ensure a project executes on time, in the budget, and within scope, you will also serve multiple roles: negotiator, decision maker, team-builder, mentor, schedule-maker, risk-evaluator, budgeter, and task manager. Each of these roles requires skill and practice. Below, in no particular order, are seven skills you want to master when as a project manager. 1.

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Fast tracking vs crashing: How To Compress The Project Schedule?

PM by PM

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What Is Business Impact Analysis & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

If Newton’s third law of physics is correct, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then businesses need to take note. That’s because any successful business relies on making intelligent and well-timed actions. Those actions set a course towards profit and market dominance, but whether they achieve these objectives or not, they’re making an impact on people, places and things, which will react in kind.

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3 Simple Charts and Graphs You Should Be Using to Make Your Next Project Presentation More Powerful

Project Bliss

Charts and graphs are a great way to share important information about your project. These three simple charts and graphs will help you communicate project information in a way your audience can take in quickly. When you’re sharing information about your project, you want to hold your audience’s attention and get your message across clearly.

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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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One and Done?

Scrum.org

In the last decade, we have realized that we cannot plan all up front in a linear process to develop software. We are solving complex problems, which require us to use an empirical process, lean UX practices, and a supporting technology platform that allows us to build, measure, learn and apply the learning in a repeatable fashion. This allows us to move from trying to predict everything about the future towards shared learning from the present.

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Using LiquidPlanner to Manage…Weather?

LiquidPlanner

While it can mostly be forecasted, the weather has its share of unpredictability, making many wish it could be managed like a project. One company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, however, has been using LiquidPlanner to do just that. CFV Solar Test Laboratory, Inc., is a small, accredited, highly sophisticated laboratory that performs multistep, long-term, testing and certification of photovoltaic assemblies, using the latest equipment.

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How to Personalize Projects with GanttPRO: Custom Columns

GanttPRO Project Management

Projects and teams are unique. Some of them have no chances for success from the very beginning as the overall success depends on a bunch of various factors. These factors […].

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Goodbye spreadsheets, hello operational excellence

Sitetracker

Say goodbye to spreadsheets. You deserve better. Being dependent on spreadsheets for project management is leading to avoidable inefficiencies. You can only track so much in spreadsheets, so if you want a clear view of project progress, you need more than a static spreadsheet. Why you can’t manage fiber projects in spreadsheets Consumers on their smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices want high speeds and low latency from their wireless network.

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10 Best Productivity Hacks to Crush It in 2019

nTask

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West. Every new day presents a new set of goals to achieve, a new set of hurdles to overcome and looking forward to being better than yesterday. Regardless of the industry or profession you belong to, you want to maximize your efforts to maximize your growth. Especially, with the phenomenon of globalization, an average student has a higher bar to reach and a regular employee has a tougher competition to not only progress b

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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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Why integrate to-do software with your calendar?

TimeCamp

Time flies so fast these days and unfortunately, we can’t do anything about it. The.

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How to Personalize Projects with GanttPRO: Custom Columns

GanttPRO Project Management

Projects and teams are unique. Some of them have no chances for success from the very beginning as the overall success depends on a bunch of various factors.

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7 Skills You Need to Master as a Project Manager

TrustRadius Project Management

Being a great Project Manager means wearing a number of hats. Not only do you have to ensure a project executes on time, in the budget, and within scope, you will also serve multiple roles: negotiator, decision maker, team-builder, mentor, schedule-maker, risk-evaluator, budgeter, and task manager. Each of these roles requires skill and practice. Below, in no particular order, are seven skills you want to master when as a project manager. 1.