Project Risk Coach
JANUARY 15, 2018
Life is filled with risks. Some risks occur slowly. Others strike with little warning. Let’s look at how to evaluate risk velocity and why it matters. What is Risk Velocity? Risk velocity is the time to impact. Think of velocity as an estimate of the time frame within which a risk may occur. Why Risk Velocity Matters. When the velocity is low, we have more time to respond to the risks.
Green Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2018
The only certainty is that nothing is certain. Pliny the Elder, Roman scholar, 23-79 CE Our culture encodes a strong bias either to neglect or ignore variation. We tend to focus instead on measures of central tendency, and as a result we make some terrible mistakes, often with considerable practical import. Stephen Jay Gould, naturalist, […]. The post Sustainable Estimating appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.
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Ron Rosenhead
JANUARY 15, 2018
I asked my wife, “what is this” holding up a canvas bag. “It’s for potatoes. It is to give them a longer life. You put the potatoes in the bag and they last longer and are in better condition than when you keep them in plastic bags.”. Great was my only comment. A few days later I opened the cupboard in which we keep the potatoes and sure enough, there was the canvas bag which contained the potatoes.
Green Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2018
This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W5_PM_PERT-Challenges. I am still surprised that with the number of project managers I meet who recommend this technique, which effectively puts the Flaw of Averages on steroids. This post is not specifically about sustainable change […].
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Online PM Courses
JANUARY 15, 2018
Stakeholder engagement and management is one of the essential Project Management disciplines. But it is often taught in a simplistic manner. The standard ‘four-box’ approach to deriving stakeholder engagement strategies can easily leave newer project managers believing there are just four basic strategies they can use. But this is far from the truth.
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Project Bliss
JANUARY 15, 2018
?. Book Review for Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Spark by John Ratey will motivate you to get moving. Ratey goes in-depth with research and the science behind how exercise makes you smarter. . You might be wondering why I’m reviewing a book about exercise for a project management and leadership blog. After all, these books are usually found on fitness blogs.
Musings on Project Management
JANUARY 15, 2018
Interviewer: "Yes, I hear all of that. But what did YOU do?" This is your moment to explain how consequential you were on the last job, or throughout your career. The test, of course, is what footprints in the sand did you leave behind? But for your efforts, imagination, leadership, first responses, etc, something of consequence would not have happened, or might not have happened.
Rebel’s Guide to PM
JANUARY 15, 2018
This article, How to Delegate Tasks With More Confidence and Less Stress , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. This is a guest article from Simon Harris from Logical Model. Simon Harris. Long ago I found being delegated to was often a confusing process. Later I found guidance in a number of sources on how to delegate clearly. It turned out that if you take the right factors into account it can be quite easy to delegate effectively (in my team’s opinions as well as mine!).
TimeCamp
JANUARY 15, 2018
Soft Skills vs Hard Skills – What’s The Difference? In contemporary world employers, and HR people in particular, often have high expectations of employers. They not only want them to be experts in their field or in what they will have to do at work but also have strong skills. And these can be divided into soft skills and hard skills. So what’s the main difference between the two that makes it possible to assign particular aspects of our experience to the two categories?
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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
Herding Cats
JANUARY 15, 2018
Having knowledge is not enough, you have to know that acting on that knowledge will result in the desired outcome - Plato's Meno. If you hear, this is the metric you need to know , ask you have any evidence that if I knew that I could take any actionable outcomes with that knowledge ? .
TimeCamp
JANUARY 15, 2018
Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from past seven days, chosen by our team! Our blog is a place where we provide all the productivity and time management knowledge. We try to do that by writing and posting worth reading articles full of useful tips and life hacks.
PM for the Masses
JANUARY 15, 2018
In this episode, Cesar and Traci explore the direction of upcoming podcast episodes. We are asking YOU, our listener, to give us your thoughts on the direction of the podcast. What is the biggest leadership or project management challenge that you are currently facing? Take a minute to let us know in the comments section. Here are comments […] In this episode, Cesar and Traci explore the direction of upcoming podcast episodes.
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