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Best Project Planning Software of 2020

ProjectManager.com

How do you get a project off the drawing board and into the execution phase? With a plan. But project plans are unruly beasts that need to be reined in. That’s where project planning software comes in: it’s a project manager’s best friend. Project planning software gives project managers the means to control costs and stay on schedule. It’s how deliverables meet the quality expectations of stakeholders.

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Top 5 Tips for Going Remote

LiquidPlanner

I recently made the leap from commuting 2.5 hours a day to a 15-second commute to my home office. Telecommuting or “going remote” can be a dream for some and a challenge for others previously acclimated to office life. Working remote may seem like an employee’s Nirvanna but it isn’t about working in shorts while wearing a dress shirt for video conference calls.

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How to Make a RACI Chart for a Project (with Example)

ProjectManager.com

The better team members know their roles and responsibilities, the better a project is going to run. Therefore, communicating role distinctions early on in the project is crucial. But how can a project manager make those definitions clear and obvious to the team? There’s a tool called RACI, or a RACI chart or matrix, which helps to define project team roles and responsibilities.

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Can you use Agile for Mergers and Acquisitions? w/ Rick McMichael

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in SoundNotes we’re focusing on a question asked by a student in a recent class: Can you use Agile for Mergers and Acquisitions? To address the topic, LeadingAgile Principal Consultant Rick McMichael joins Dave to discuss Mergers and Acquisitions (or M&A).

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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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Why Remote Teams in Multiple Timezones Actually Works

Hub Planner

Reading Time: 4 minutes Why Remote Teams in Multiple Timezones Actually Works. If you haven’t trialed out remote working, then perhaps you’re about to be thrown in at the deep end. Take the current outbreak of Coronavirus. This makes for a real-time case study where remote teams are required more than ever. For example, resources at Indeed EMEA HQ in Dublin were all asked to work remotely where possible.

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Hundred5 is now Toggl Hire

Teamweek

Today is a big day for us! From today, Hundred5 will be known as Toggl Hire! We’ve changed our name, and our look, but our vision and all the great functionality of our pre-employment screening tool will remain exactly as before. You don’t fix something unless it’s broken, right? Kissing Hundred5 Goodbye. Hundred5 started life back in 2013. To begin with, it was a humble internal tool with a big vision: to revolutionize the hiring process at Toggl by making it easier and faster than ever to find

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Influencers and discriminating factors

Musings on Project Management

When it's OPM -- other people's money -- the client gets to make the priority judgments. I call them "influencers and discriminators". Normal 0. false false false. EN-US X-NONE X-NONE.

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Heroes and Villains of Software Development [Comic]

Teamweek

In software development, backend is not the hero we need, but it’s the hero we deserve. To an ordinary person, the internet just works. We take it for granted. In reality, our beloved websites exist only thanks to the toil of developers who must face dangerous and often invisible bugs daily. To us, Toggl isn’t just a simple time tracker. It’s a simple time tracker – with legacy code.

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How To Improve Your Team's Success (And Minimize Mistakes) Through Meetings

Trello

“You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it’s not a mistake, it’s a choice.” — Steven Denn.

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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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Do Calendars or Scheduling Have You Stumped?!

MPUG

Microsoft Project is a powerful scheduling tool, but how exactly does the software schedule? The answer is found in a single word: calendars. In fact, the schedule of every project is based on one or more calendars. Have you ever wondered how to do any of the following? Configure the Standard calendar in your Microsoft Project schedule. Create new calendars.

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