Mon.Jul 29, 2019

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Risk Management: When All Hell Breaks Loose

Project Risk Coach

What would you do if all hell breaks loose in a critical company project that you are managing? You lose two of your best team members. Your budget is shot. A key stakeholder is breathing down your neck. Behind schedule by four weeks. You haven't slept well in two weeks. And you feel like throwing in the towel. Taking on Risky Projects Some projects are more risky than others.

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Project Management Prepcast Review [2019]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Social media has been awash with info on the changes to the PMP exam that take effect in December. The CAPM exam changes in September. And my inbox has been full of people asking what they should do. My advice is if you know you want to do the PMP or CAPM exams, do it now before the changes come in. The changes to the exam content don’t actually look that sweepingly different, but with any new exam comes a period of adjustment for candidates and examiners, and testing how the questions score.

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Moving Beyond Velocity

Scrum.org

In my role as an Agile coach and Scrum trainer, I get the chance to talk to a lot of Scrum Masters and teams. When I ask them about what their team is measuring, the most common answers I hear are velocity, story points, and burn-down charts. Makes sense, many Scrum Masters learn about those topics in an introductory Scrum course. Velocity may be fine when just getting started with Scrum, but armed with more knowledge and acting as a servant-leader, I want people to improve and get better busine

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Why Time Constraint is the Most Important Project Management Constraint

MPUG

Frederick P. Brooks Jr., in his famous book, The Mythical Man-Month , wrote, “Adding human resources to a late software project makes it later.” His statement is popularly known as Brooks’ law. Even before the book was published, project managers and other project stakeholders knew that project duration cannot always be shortened by adding more resources.

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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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What Skills Will Make You a Top Manager in 2022?

Epicflow Blog

The distribution of work between humans and machines will experience a significant shift between today and 2022 according to The Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum. Up until now, around 71% of all work in such industries as aviation, financial services, automotive, and energy utilities has been performed by humans. However, by 2022, this number is expected to drop to 58 %, with 42% of tasks being performed by machines.

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7 Productivity Tips for Marketing Managers

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps marketing managers and teams create tasks, set goals and deadlines, and plan projects. The Gantt chart is the perfect way to follow […].

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Easy Projects Enters Top 5 of GetApp’s Project Management Software  Category Leaders 2019

EasyProjects

Toronto,ON (July 29th, 2019) — Easy Projects, an enterprise work and project management software platform is featured on GetApp’s Category Leaders list as best in class Project Management Software and Project Portfolio Management. The GettApp ranking methodology is based on five unique data points worth 20 points each, including mobile functionality, user reviews, security, integration and overall functionality.

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DPM Podcast: How To Manage Stakeholders (with Kelly Suter)

The Digital Project Manager

The post DPM Podcast: How To Manage Stakeholders (with Kelly Suter) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Free Project Management Software Selection Advice

The Lazy Project Manager

Crozdesk.com is the most advanced business software discovery platform out there. [link]. Check it our for free AI powered selection recommendations, based on your input criteria, for you and your organisation – today.

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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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7 Productivity Tips for Marketing Managers

GanttPRO Project Management

GanttPRO is online Gantt chart software that helps marketing managers and teams create tasks, set goals and deadlines, and plan projects.

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Critiquing behaviors

Musings on Project Management

It was famously said, in a paraphrase: lead people, manage things. I buy into this advice, so I'm always on the alert for something that plays into it. So here's a distillation of best practice for delivering criticism. And, full disclosure: the first time I really had to do this, I really screwed it up!

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7 Productivity Tips for Marketing Managers

GanttPRO Project Management

As a marketing manager, your job is to manage people. And sometimes managing others is less difficult than managing your own time. Let’s face it: marketing managers don’t have it […]. The post 7 Productivity Tips for Marketing Managers first appeared on GanttPRO.

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5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Team Performance Immediately

Scoro

We are all aspired to work in high performing teams. In reality, it might not be as easy to achieve after all. According to Skip Prichard , only 10% of teams are high performing. This means that the majority of teams have something they could improve. And even if it’s not rocket science, it does require persistence and commitment from the organization, leaders and all team members. .

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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5 easy ways to boost your team performance immediately

Scoro

We are all aspired to work in high performing teams. In reality, it might not be as easy to achieve after all. According to Skip Prichard , only 10% of teams are high performing. This means that the majority of teams have something they could improve. And even if it’s not rocket science, it does require persistence and commitment from the organization, leaders and all team members. .

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5 Easy Ways to Boost Your Team Performance Immediately

Scoro

We are all aspired to work in high performing teams. In reality, it might not be as easy to achieve after all. According to Skip Prichard , only 10% of teams are high performing. This means that the majority of teams have something they could improve. And even if it’s not rocket science, it does require persistence and commitment from the organization, leaders and all team members. .