Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Information technology project risk often comes from non-technical aspects of the initiative. Assessing the impact of technology on people, management systems and other initiatives is essential to assure project success. "We automate problems". This department slogan was posted on an office door (the inside) for several months while managers in the department struggled to break out of a string of failed projects.

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Planview

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Your organization is transforming. Maybe you’re part of a newly-minted project management office (PMO). Or perhaps you’re a tenured PMO leader and looking to refine your skills. You’re valiant and ready to spearhead the challenges ahead for developing process and governance. But they have given you a butter knife for the proverbial “battle” to slay the fire-breathing dragon.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In our LinkedIn Project Management 2.0 group ( you can join us here! ), we asked experienced project managers to divulge their #1 tip for newcomers to the field. Not surprisingly, these process fanatics shared a plethora of great tips to help newcomers succeed in this ever-changing area of work. Read through their project management advice below, and see what you can learn as you walk into your first, second, or even tenth PM role. “I think that all the important tips could be summarized w

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Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

"Uncertainty management is not just about managing perceived threats, opportunities, and their implications; it is about identifying and managing all the many sources of uncertainty that give rise to and shape our perceptions of threats and opportunities. It implies exploring and understanding the origins of project uncertainty before seeking to manage it, with no preconceptions about what is desirable or undesirable.

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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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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Guest article, and Performance Review Template by Mike Sisco, President of the IT Manager Institute. Background: Why the Performance Review Template? I’ve managed IT organizations for more than 20 years so I have delivered hundreds of performance plans and reviews. But, before I became a manager, I was an employee and received performance reviews from many managers in my career.

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Appfluence

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Background on Executive Coaching. Executive coaching is a 1.5 billion dollar industry , yet, until recently, any formal study of this discipline has been very limited. While, technically executive coaching has been around since the 1930s, it only picked up speed in the 70s and 80s , when corporations began to move away from looking at everyone, including executives, as cogs in the system and began to focus more deeply on the concept “intellectual capital.

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