Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 1, 2019

It seems like more and more of the projects we’re working on as project managers are tricky in non-conventional ways. The environment is shifting as we’re trying to do the work. Or the political situation changes. Suddenly what you thought you were delivering is actually not that after all. Carole Osterweil. It’s not just me feeling like this. In my mentoring group we often talk about how projects don’t quite work the way the textbooks make you think they should.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 1, 2019

Due to all of the minutia of a project, it’s easy for a project manager to get lost in the details, and lose track of the big picture. But how can you remove yourself from the daily deadlines and issues that always are popping up, and take the time to see the entire project landscape to ensure you’re heading in the right direction? Fortunately, there is a space set aside for that high-level overview to keep a project on track: it’s called the project roadmap.

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International Institute for Learning

MAY 1, 2019

By Bob Umlas, Excel MVP . In this blog I’ll discuss filtering. In another continued blog, I’ll talk about advanced filtering. First, what is filtering? We’ll define it by looking at a very simple illustration. Suppose this is your worksheet: If you were only interested in the West region, you can show just the West items by filtering. There are many ways to filter and we’ll show them all in this post, but for now, if you right-mouse click on the word West in cell A3 (or A6), you can filter this

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Project Management Essentials

MAY 1, 2019

Organizational change and transformation efforts are often challenging. Most fail to meet their planned objectives with 30% failing outright. In last month’s article, ”Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning” , I recommending using adaptive-agile planning practices and treating the effort like a road trip: Set the direction, not the destination.

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TeamGantt

MAY 1, 2019

See how to document and manage change requests in project management easily, and save time by downloading our free change order request form template.

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PM for the Masses

MAY 1, 2019

Cesar Abeid and Dr. Mik Kersten talk about the necessary shift from project to product thinking. Cesar Abeid and Dr. Mik Kersten talk about the necessary shift from project to product thinking.

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Herding Cats

MAY 1, 2019

It's popular in the agile community to speak about User Stories and how they are Not requirements. . But as a System Engineer, here's some background on Systems Architecture and Requirements Engineering. Let's start with some background about Systems. Every system is a component of a larger system. This will take use from the lowest level up the Universe as a system.

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Teamweek

MAY 1, 2019

How well do you know your co-workers? Do you think if you knew them better, you’d be able to work together more effectively ? Asking people questions is one of the best ways to build relationships and get to know more about them. Has Jamie ever traveled out of the country? Has Laura ever done anything crazy? Icebreaker questions like these are a great way to get your team out of work mode for a while and establish a stronger rapport with one another.

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Proofhub

MAY 1, 2019

According to the statistics provided by the University of Phoenix, in 2014, almost 50% of all employees in the age from 20 to 30 wanted to start their business. Still, as stated in a Wall Street Journal research, in 2015, only 3,6% of these people started their companies. Needless to say, nowadays, technologies become more and more user-friendly. Modern customers can buy whatever they want and do it anytime they need.

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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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