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What Everyone Should Know About Running Agile Projects

The Digital Project Manager

Put your theory and tools aside for a minute: Here’s something that everyone should know about how agile actually works in the real world. The post What Everyone Should Know About Running Agile Projects appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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How to Make a Company Retreat Unforgettable (with Location Examples)

ProjectManager.com

The business obsession with the bottom line, making more profits quarter after quarter, often neglects a fundamental aspect of productivity: downtime. Working is like exercise, if you keep working the same muscles nonstop, you’ll be too exhausted to get strong and healthy. Sometimes a change of environment is helpful; it shakes off the doldrums of routine and helps people respond more openly to new ideas.

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"Open" risk management

Musings on Project Management

To be open Every text and paper I've read describes risk management like many other project processes: open, transparent, available to any on the project team. Risks are identified, evaluated, ranked, made subject to some form of risk reduction paradigm; and everyone is made aware. Oh, but if it only were! Most of us can handle the text book process.

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How to Fix a Troubled Project by Falling Back on the Fundamentals

LiquidPlanner

According to the Standish Group’s 2015 Chaos Report , I have a 64-percent chance of guessing you’ve been on a challenged or failed software project. According to the Chaos Report , only 36 percent of all projects have been successful while others were challenged or failed to meet the business objectives. I’ve seen a lot of projects that were challenged and some that have even failed.

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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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Project Management Vs. Leadership – How nTask evolved From an Early Start up to a Robust Industry Competitor

nTask

Project management often reflects tangible results that managers crave. However, a lot of that success factor is riding on proper planning and execution. No matter how dynamic “project management” itself is, some of the changes to the core organization structure can be scary. We think that we are integrating a new style of management or something innovative that’s going on in the industry just because it is working for some of the popular competitors.

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Keep it moving through the team

Lynne Cazaly

Playing well on a team means not slowing things down unnecessarily or holding things up. To collaborate, contribute, do our bit or add our expertise to a piece of work, is a fundamental part of work. It's rare we work in total isolation - unless in our own business - even then, we might have a team member, suppliers and. customers. Do you know how your working style impacts the 'flow' of work through the team?

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The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Task Management Systems

Workamajig

Task management is an essential part of project management, yet remains largely ignored and understudied. This guide will show you the right process for managing tasks in projects big and small. To manage projects is to manage tasks. It doesn’t matter whether you’re building a billion dollar stadium or a $10,000 website, every project is essentially a list of tasks.

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How to Onboard Your Team to a New Project Management System

Epicflow Blog

You probably already have a new project management system in mind or are at least considering choosing one to improve team productivity and take your project planning achievements to the next level. However, there’s one key factor you can’t afford to forget: the people who will use the software and determine how effective it is in your work environment.

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5 steps to make stressful reporting a thing of the past

Hydra

5 steps to make stressful reporting a thing of the past.

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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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How To Focus in Your Daily Work with InLoox (Part 2): Team Work

Inloox

In the first part of our blog series , we have already taken a look at how you can better structure your day-to-day work for yourself. In the second part, we'll look closer at another way to coordinate your team and create focus. Here we will focus on the scenario of team meetings later on. Everyone has certainly been to unstructured meetings where thousands of new tasks have emerged out of the sudden.

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10 Must-Know Tools For Web Developers To Manage Their Work

Proofhub

10 Effective And Modern Tools For Web Developers Times have changed and so has the technology. With the advent of technology, there has been a swing in the working pattern of web development teams. Opportunities have widened up. Roads to better website development with enhanced looks are wider than before. The bar of expectations has also risen with time.

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How To Focus in Your Daily Work with InLoox (Part 2): Team Work

Inloox

In the first part of our blog series , we have already taken a look at how you can better structure your day-to-day work for yourself. In the second part, we'll look closer at another way to coordinate your team and create focus. Here we will focus on the scenario of team meetings later on. Everyone has certainly been to unstructured meetings where thousands of new tasks have emerged out of the sudden.