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How to Develop a Stakeholder Register

Project Risk Coach

Project Stakeholder Management Last week, we looked at 15 awesome ways to manage your project stakeholders. Today, let’s explore the development and use of the stakeholder register. If you can’t see this video in your RSS reader or email, then click here. Stakeholder Register Benefits. Projects are dynamic and stakeholders make things interesting.

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Everyone estimates!

Musings on Project Management

We all make estimates; and we all make estimates all the time. When I make the 20 mile trip each Tuesday to a client site, I estimate adjustments to a baseline based on weather and road construction and if I know about an accident. Really, no one sets out to do anything meaningful without some estimate in mind re time, or cost, or risk; usually we can also notionally estimate the scope.

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Personal awareness for project managers

Ron Rosenhead

This blog was first published in 2008! Over the last 12 months I have had many conversations with project managers and personal awareness does not seem to be as high as it could be. I have therefore slightly amended the original blog below. I hope you find it useful. . . ‘The bad news is that time flies. The good news is – you’re the pilot’. Michael Altshuler.

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Route to Enterprise Scale Agility

Digite

Competitiveness in the age of digital disruption requires businesses to achieve agility at scale – not in select projects and portfolios alone, but across functions, across the business. The approaches to achieving enterprise-wide agility are keenly debated. I caught up with Kanban pioneer David Anderson on the sidelines of Lean Kanban Central Europe and Lean Kanban India last year and asked him about his thoughts.

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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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Benchmarking in Project Management (1): In Search of Best Practice

Inloox

Our latest blog series will cover the topic of benchmarking in project management. We’ll give you a quick overview of what “benchmarking” is in part 1, and the next two blog posts will delve deeper into the topic by explaining the difference between internal and external benchmarking. Definition of benchmarking Benchmarking is used to assess your own organization’s processes and performance compared to your company’s competitors or compared to the best companies in your industry.

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A Mercenary Perspective on Sustainability

Green Project Management

I am blessed and cursed with never having had a boss. Despite the image above, I actually consider myself a capitalist and believe that it is vital to generate jobs and improve the overall economic well being of society. All of that said though, I do believe we need an overhaul because the existing US-based […]. The post A Mercenary Perspective on Sustainability appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know - Richard Feynman. Feynman spoke at our Student Physics Society, UC Irvine, on Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD), when that theory was first starting. It made complete sense, using his Feynman Diagrams to show the interactions of particles that had yet to be confirmed experimentally.

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Enhanced Charting, Performance, Usability, and Training: The Upcoming BrightWork New Release

Brightwork

At BrightWork, we want to deliver a gorgeously simple project management software solution to make successful project portfolio management possible for every organization. In the coming weeks, the latest release of our solution for SharePoint will become available, offering better performance, enhanced charting, improved usability, and a training zone.

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Software Review: ConceptDraw Office 4

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Software Review: ConceptDraw Office 4 , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. ConceptDraw Review. Name: ConceptDraw Office 4. This is the suite of products that encompasses Pro 11 (diagramming), Mindmap 9 (mindmaps) and Project 8 (project management). Vendor: CS Odessa. Hosting options: It’s desktop software that you download, and there are versions for Mac and Windows.

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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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The Top Global Co-Working Spaces to Check Out in 2017

Boost by Brightpod

There is no doubt that working from home, at the local coffee shop or in a hotel can be unnecessarily loud, distracting, and simply quite boring; inevitably.

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Brighten up your scheduling ?? with emojis! ??????????

Resource Guru

We’re working on a bunch of important features here at Guru Central and, I have to admit, adding emoji support was not one of them. So, why have we done this now? Good question! It’s a bit random, like this octopus …. It has been said that the Chinese word for crisis, 危机 wēijī, is made up of two characters meaning danger and opportunity. There has certainly been some debate over whether this is true or not, but I’m going to go with it because it sort of works with the story I’m about to tell.

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Start Earning More For Your Freelancing Work!

TimeCamp

Freelancing. A popular term. And its popularity is rising. The number of people who are getting too tired of their monotonous office job and try to work on their own terms is growing every single year. Still, there is and probably always will be a vast number of those, who believe that working from home is close to being impossible. They are right. Freelancing is not for everyone.

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