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3 Easy Ways To Make a Gantt Chart (Giveaway + Free Excel Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you manage projects, you will have come across a Gantt chart. Even if you don’t manage projects but are involved in project teams, or you manage Agile projects – Gantt charts are everywhere. Enter to win a one year license for Office Timeline, perfect for creating Gantt charts in Powerpoint, by clicking here. I have used Microsoft Project for many years and it creates great Gantt charts.

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What Project Managers Should Know About Monitoring Project Risks

Project Risk Coach

Many project managers do a great job of identifying risks. Some even evaluate risks and develop response plans. However, project managers get busy as their projects progress and fail to monitor their risks, resulting in challenged or failed projects. Here are some key factors that you should know about monitoring project risks. Do Project Managers Really Control Risks?

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How to Structure a Team

ProjectManager.com

The way you structure a team can help facilitate all aspects of a project. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to structure teams to make them more creative, productive and efficient. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – How to Structure a Team. Why should you care about how a team is structured? Jennifer noted several reasons.

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Pulse of the Profession 2018: The Project Manager of the Future

Inloox

New technologies bring rapid and continuous change to our workplace. In order to not only react to those but use them to make projects more effective and profitable, project managers need to adapt and keep on learning. In the future, the role and the tasks of a project manager will be something like the following: Ensure top drivers of project success As PMI’s research shows , there are three top drivers of project success: the investment in actively engaged sponsors, the avoidance of scope cree

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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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Handling Unplanned Work

Leading Agile

Technical teams who are building or supporting application software usually work from a prioritized list of improvements, new features, and ideas to try out. (Scrum calls the list the Product Backlog.) They have a plan for completing the items on the list. Except in cases when the totality of the work is completely understood in advance, contemporary practice involves rolling-wave planning or multi-horizon planning in some form, whereby teams pull a subset of items from the top of the list and w

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10 LinkedIn Groups every Entrepreneur & Project Manager should join

Taskque

Starting a business is not everybody’s cup of tea. Trust me, Entrepreneurs, business owners, and project owners cannot succeed without soliciting the help of a group(s) of people who have that experience and can guide them better. Without these networks of people, it becomes a challenge for small business owners & project managers to scale their business on their own.

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15 Teamwork Software Alternatives for Project Management

Teamweek

Doing project management without using the proper software tools has become nearly impossible, especially over the last few years. With more companies hiring remote workers, online collaboration tools are becoming a crucial part of every business in this industry. Programs like Teamwork have come into the picture as a cloud-based means to improve communication, organization, and production.

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Focus on Strengths Not Just Weaknesses – the Value of Appreciative Inquiry

Green Project Management

I always enjoyed the message from the featured image above. As a management consultant, validator, and assessor I am often engaged by organizations to analyze their operations and systems to identify opportunities for improvement. I have also spent a couple decades on advising on how to implement better practice methods and processes around various disciplines […].

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6 Powerful Lessons Every Project Manager Needs to Learn

The Digital Project Manager

Learn how to overcome some of the biggest hurdles project managers face. Join our webinar: 6 Powerful Lessons Every Project Manager Needs to Learn. The post 6 Powerful Lessons Every Project Manager Needs to Learn appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Easy Projects Architecture Roadmap

EasyProjects

Ever since Easy Projects’ inception back in 2004, its core product architecture has stayed relatively the same: Web Server (MS IIS) and Database Server (MS SQL). When we moved our hosting environment to Microsoft Azure Cloud, we added few more components to the mix: Redis Cache,Service Bus, Azure Search and others. These technologies allowed Easy Projects to be scaled on demand and to maintain high performance and reliability for thousands of concurrent users.

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Productivity Articles: Getting Thins Done Smarter! 12/8/18

TimeCamp

Sunday, Funday! Make yourself comfortable and read these 10 Most Inspiring Productivity Articles from the.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. - St. Jerome.

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