Thu.Apr 25, 2019

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Supercharge Idea Output With Starbursting Brainstorming

Project Bliss

Starbursting brainstorming is a structured technique to help your team come up with lots of ideas in many different focus areas. Use this approach to easily guide your team to generate tons of ideas for your product or service. Does the idea of brainstorming make you anxious? Do your brainstorming sessions run dry quickly? Or do you wish you had a more structured approach to lead the team to create more ideas?

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From Onboarding to Expert: Refining and Optimizing the LiquidPlanner Experience

LiquidPlanner

Previously, we discussed the onboarding and adoption stages that companies go through when they integrate LiquidPlanner into their daily workflow. This week, we’ll be covering the third and final stages: refining and optimization. Refining. The refining stage tends to kick in once you’ve been using LiquidPlanner long enough to focus on proactively managing project risk.

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The 7 Most Important Arguments for Implementing Project Management

Inloox

Relevance of Project Management According to the PMI "Pulse of the Profession" report (2018), only 58 percent of companies acknowledge the value of project management. The importance of full acknowledgement of project management cannot be emphasized enough. For example, organizations that underestimate project management as a strategic competence for promoting change report on average 50 percent more failures in their projects.

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Understanding The Problem You’re Trying to Solve With Metrics

Leading Agile

Metrics are important. Tracking work is important. “What gets measured gets done.” But, if you don’t understand why you’re measuring things, or what the problem you’re trying to solve when you begin measuring things—no amount of metrics is going to help. . In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior talk about metrics and how important it is to understand what problem you’re trying to solve when you begin using metrics to

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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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The 7 Most Important Arguments for Implementing Project Management

Inloox

Relevance of Project Management According to the PMI "Pulse of the Profession" report (2018), only 58 percent of companies acknowledge the value of project management. The importance of full acknowledgement of project management cannot be emphasized enough. For example, organizations that underestimate project management as a strategic competence for promoting change report on average 50 percent more failures in their projects.

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19 Genius Ways to Become More Creative Today

Planio

Let’s say you’re sitting in a meeting with your team. Unfortunately, it’s not going well. The project you’ve spent months on is suddenly on the rocks. Things are unclear and you need a way forward. People start throwing out ideas but they’ve all been done before. You need something creative. The room goes silent. Creativity is the lifeblood of companies.

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The secret to leadership is simple

Lynne Cazaly

'The secret to leadership is simple’ So said Seth Godin. and he says many wonderfully frank, clear and compelling things. The concept, behavior and practice of leadership can get complicated and confusing - especially when you’re in the thick of it. Like when you’re dealing with the human side (which is most of the time), or handling conflict and tension or leading through a significant and unsettling time of change (which is most of the time).

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How to Get More Customers with Email Marketing Automation

ProjectManager.com

Setting up an automated email campaign is just step one in achieving more conversions. An automated campaign will save you time and resources, but if you only think of it as the same email you would have sent manually, just on a larger scale, then you’re not really tapping into the potential of email marketing automation. It’s time to start thinking outside of the traditional email marketing box when planning your next marketing campaign.

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10 Project Management KPIs and What They Mean

GanttPRO Project Management

How many communication touchpoints, on average, does it take your business to transform a lead into a client? Ideally, your team and not your customer (or their customers) should detect […].

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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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Here’s what's wrong with maturity models

Scrum.org

I always assume that the people I work with are professionals - and not children. This is why I don’t like maturity models in whatever shape or form. And we’ve got a lot of those in our industry. We have maturity models about development practices, about Leadership, about Scrum Teams, Scrum Masters and Product Owners. And about skills in general (Shu-Ha-Ri, anyone?).

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Microsoft Project Tutorial: How to Add Milestone Task in MS Project

GanttPRO Project Management

Milestones are signs of tiny diamonds that mark important events in Microsoft Project. Milestones can be defined as approval, completion of key deliverables, an important event or the beginning or […].

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The 4 words that show no - or low - empathy

Lynne Cazaly

We know that empathy is a key way to build connections with people, deepen a conversation and strengthen trust. But I wonder.do we too often confuse similarity for empathy? When someone shares a story or situation with you, and you’ve experienced it too, what do you say? We can too often rush in to sharing our story, our experience and our situation.because it’s happened to us too!

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10 Project Management KPIs and What They Mean

GanttPRO Project Management

How many communication touchpoints, on average, does it take your business to transform a lead into a client?

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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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Do you trust yourself?

Lynne Cazaly

In this era of swift delivery to market, rapid change and mega transformations, how do we respond in ways that build TRUST in a team, unit, project or enterprise? At the heart of trust is you, me, us. The question I think of in building trust is “Do you trust yourself?” Do you trust your ideas, your intuition, your actions, your capabilities?

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Microsoft Project Tutorial: How to Add Milestone Task in MS Project

GanttPRO Project Management

Milestones are signs of tiny diamonds that mark important events in Microsoft Project.

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'Any old map will do'

Lynne Cazaly

I wrote earlier about sensemaking and how we need it to collaborate, make decisions and make progress. How do we ‘make sense’, particularly in a group? Currently, we sit around a table, look at each other and talk at each other. It’s so verbal. Blah blah and blah, and some more blah blah. We’re trying to explain things, influence, persuade, educate, inform, involve and engage.

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Project Management Tips Every Event Planner Should Know

Wrike

Wrike is excited to welcome Krystal from GoSkills for today’s guest blog post. Krystal does all things marketing at GoSkills, an online learning company that helps anyone learn business skills to reach their personal and professional goals. When she’s not at work, you can find her listening to podcasts or watching comedy specials on Netflix. .

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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A real shortcut or perceived?

Lynne Cazaly

I went into a restaurant last night and the waiter said ‘One’, with a finger in the air like ’table for 1’; without seeing my response he took a menu, directed me to a table. ‘I’m here to collect a takeaway order’, I said. He took me to the counter, handed me the takeaway menu, opening it and pointing at all the tasty choices. ‘Thank you.

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Flogging a dead idea.

Lynne Cazaly

Seth Godin says 'ideas that spread win'. If your ideas aren’t spreading as you’d like, well. maybe they’re dead. Are you flogging a dead idea? Leaders bringing change to their teams; I wonder, how much is old stuff, old information or old ideas repackaged? Did the ’Save as’ button get a workout when you changed the date from last year or 5 years ago, and put the same information out there?

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Outside, inside then outside again.

Lynne Cazaly

Working at a client business recently, we were talking about the swing that happens through the IN and OUT door. First it’s ‘we need consultants’, then it’s ‘we’re spending too much on consultants… we need to bring these services in-house’ and then it swings back to ‘we need consultants working on this’ Have you noticed how the pendulum or swing does indeed swing?