Tue.Nov 03, 2020

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5 Ways To Welcome New Hires When Your Company Is Distributed

Trello

Rise and shine—it’s your new hire's first day! Coffee in hand, you imagine them taking a seat at their desk and turning on their computer. They're probably thinking “Who will I meet today? Will I make a good first impression? Is this role right for me?”.

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Consider These 5 Effective Tips for Managing Creative Teams

ProProfs Project Management

Managing creative teams has always been a tricky job because you need to give your team freedom to try new ideas and take risks, while at the same time, pushing them is also important to get the job done on time and within scope. In short, it’s a constant balancing act. However, many companies put unnecessary pressure on their employees to be more productive rather than creative at work.

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Earned Value Management - Understanding The Main Calculations and Formulas

Techno-PM

Earned Value Management (EVM) Earned Value Management (EVM) is a strategy for project managers to use to define and quantify the performance of a project. Systematic in nature, this project management process is helpful for uncovering project variances by comparing work performed vs. work planned. Used to support schedule and cost controls, EVM is helpful for forecasting and planning.

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Destroying my Enemies – Bite Size Project Management Thought | Video

Online PM Courses

'Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?' This quote reminds us of the value of positive stakeholder engagement. The post Destroying my Enemies – Bite Size Project Management Thought | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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7 Top Project Management Issues You Can Solve With the Right Tools

Proofhub

Successfully completed projects can have a great impact on the whole company. But the coin has two sides: if a project fails, the company can suffer too. So, it is indispensable that the project manager as well as the project team are aware of this fact, and that both do their best to avoid making grave mistakes. However, that is easier said than done, since?

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The Ultimate Guide to Estimating Projects: How to use time tracking (and experience) to set better estimates

Planio

Everyone’s experienced a “quick” task turning into a day-long endeavor. Despite our best intentions, human beings are terrible at estimating how long a project or task will take to complete. But as a project manager, it’s your job to properly estimate a project’s time and cost so that your team knows what they’re working towards (and you know when you’re going off the rails!).

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An introduction to an effective earned value management system (EVMS) webinar series part 2 - Author: Maya Creasey

APM

This series of webinars will introduce people to the, often poorly understood, system of work (the Earned Value Management System) that underpins good Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and enduring decisions. Here in this second webinar presented on Tuesday 3 November 2020, we will start to get into more detail of what constitutes a “good” EVMS and we will look at the most common standard used: EIA786.

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Deliver Marketing Campaigns Faster with Workflow Management Software

Admation

In today’s digital world, marketing teams are under the pump more than they have ever been before. The average marketer is producing 75% more content than they were this time last year while also trying to juggle an average of 6 social media sites at once. Add marketing campaigns, projects, and people management to the mix and it’s no wonder that marketers are feeling stretched for time when it comes to meeting their deadlines.

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Q & A with Patricia Schwerzel, account leader global health, Mott Macdonald - Author: Hayley Mountstevens

APM

International Project Management Day takes place on Thursday 5 November, and here APM speaks to Patricia Schwerzel about her role managing health programmes across Africa.

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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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Building An Agile Operating Model That Accelerates ROI 

Leading Agile

Accelerating your time to ROI isn’t about delivering more lines of code faster. And it isn’t about delivering working tested product faster. To accelerate ROI, we must reliably put the right combination of working tested product in front of customers so that it can drive revenue, self-fund further product development, and create opportunities to get critical feedback.

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What Are the 5 Scrum Values?

Wrike

If you manage or lead a Scrum team, you know it’s one of the most effective project management frameworks in use today. Though popular, teams can only experience the full benefits of the Scrum methodology by understanding and implementing the five Scrum values. . Much like organizational or company values, Scrum values are values that Scrum team members uphold.

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