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Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article, Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management. Are you looking to do a project management training course or take a certificate course this year? You aren’t alone. The APM Salary and Market Survey 2017 (pdf) says that 53% of project professionals expect to have to take on new skills and training in the next 5 years.

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DPM Podcast: How To Get Your Bearings On A New Project (with Joanna Leigh Simon)

The Digital Project Manager

Ben Aston talks to Joanna Leigh Simon to discuss the questions to ask about the project plan, team, client and work to get your bearings and get a project in order. Listen up to learn how you can make your own project onboarding experience a whole lot less stressful. ? The post DPM Podcast: How To Get Your Bearings On A New Project (with Joanna Leigh Simon) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Ask a Project Manager: My Client Missed Their Deadline…Again!

LiquidPlanner

“Dear Elizabeth, I work for a smallish web development company. We do our best to hit deadlines, but often when we fall behind it’s because of the client’s failure to do their part of the project on time. In particular, it’s getting access to creative materials like their brand fonts, or access to data or content that we require to move forward.

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6 Ways to Make Sure Your Remote Workers are Actually Working Full-Time

ActiveCollab

Guest post by Greg Digneo from TimeDoctor. Greg Digneo writes for TimeDoctor.com, a time monitoring and productivity monitoring software designed for tracking hours and productivity of remote teams. If you would like to see where you and your team are spending your time during work, then try TimeDoctor free for 30 days. Keeping track of your remote workers can be challenging.

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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 Tools for Engineering

TimeCamp

Time is one of the scarcest resources. To everybody, both individuals and people affiliated with some larger organizations. And while the former can manipulate it quite freely, being responsible only for their households and family units, the latter not necessarily. They have a lot on their minds. They tend to shoulder both the fate of their companies as well as employees, bother with customers who sometimes demand the impossible, pending projects, revenue and expenditure, and so on.

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Project Management Tools for a Boss

TimeCamp

Being in command of a company cannot be considered the easiest task in a manager’s working life, especially if it is a big one and they wish to concur foreign markets. There are many formidable obstacles which may hinder one’s efforts, from HR management to accounting for revenue and expenditure. Fortunately, equally numerous as hindrances are methods to overcome potential problems.

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What Every Perfect Web Design Contract Needs

Boost by Brightpod

If you are an agency or a brand, when it comes to web design, there’s really only two things that matter: form and function. And that’s precisely what you’ll end up asking of your web designers, as well.

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Project Management Tools for Remote Workers

TimeCamp

The business world is expanding every second you read this post, and you cannot stop the process. You probably would help it as much as possible even if you are a manager of the company aiming at foreign markets. The goal is ambitious, no doubt. To succeed in that matter, you need teams in various parts of the world, the issue rather vexing and giving one sleepless nights.

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How to Prepare an Engaging Project Proposal in 8 Steps

Brightwork

If you’re just getting started as a project manager, or have found the role of project manager thrust upon you, you’ll need to write a project proposal. How can you write a proposal to win approval and resources for the project? Read on for an eight-step formula for success! 1. Starting Out To begin with, you’ll need to start asking questions of yourself and your past experience as a project manager and the job that’s currently at hand.

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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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Project Management Tools for Freelancers

TimeCamp

Being a freelancer is not easy. Obstacles in the life of such a person can be multiplied ad infinitum. Finding jobs, no permanent income, etc. A nightmare, isn’t it? But one of the most vexing issues is probably the organization of work. Freelancers are mostly remote employees. How to force oneself to do something? Everything may be a distraction, from one’s spouse or children, through physiological needs, to a barking dog and weather.

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How to Prepare an Engaging Project Proposal in 8 Steps

Brightwork

If you’re just getting started as a project manager, or have found the role of project manager thrust upon you, you’ll need to write a project proposal. How can you write a proposal to win approval and resources for the project? Read on for an eight-step formula for success! 1. Starting Out To begin with, you’ll need to start asking questions of yourself and your past experience as a project manager and the job that’s currently at hand.

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Project Management Tools for Education

TimeCamp

It’s often said that school teaches life. And it’s 100% true. Besides helping us discover the greatness of the world, it also shows us how to be responsible, how to deal with problems, be organized, etc. It concerns not only students but also teachers. In order to work smarter, not harder than necessary, it would be nice to find some help, something that would boost the efficiency of our efforts.

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Combating Unoriginal Content With Human Touch

ActiveCollab

We relied on a free service called HARO to interview over 50 people and create 7 original posts last year. Here is what we learned. Creating and posting original content on your blog gets you visits. Greater number of visits gets you two things: Greater number of conversions; Better SERP position. But you already knew that. What you are here to find out is how we tried to combat unoriginal content internet is flooded with.

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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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Project Management Tools for Construction

TimeCamp

There are not many branches of business as complex and multi-featured as construction management. Once, you could show up at the job site with a clipboard, but not nowadays. Today’s business climate requires computers which allow almost instant access to one’s financial and other data needed and making well-informed decisions on the future of their business.

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Physical Percent Complete: Knowing When You Are Done

Herding Cats

The goal of every program manager is to have a set of practices that connect all the programmatic planning, risk, and performance information in a single unified view needed to support the decisions that increase the probability of success of any project or program. If we look to other paradigms, successfully unifying information doesn't start with a reductionist approach.

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Project Management Tools for Designers

TimeCamp

Nobody warns us when we are born into this world about hardships of life we may come across during adulthood, especially those connected to working life. And professional choices vary greatly. Some people prefer roads clear of the bumps, wrong turns, and dead ends, choosing simple professions such as a shopkeeper or a washer, while others are more ambitious and shoot for the stars, becoming doctors, lawyers or businesspeople.

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Project Management Tools for Sales

TimeCamp

Selling goods and services is not an easy way to make a living. First of all, there are customers to deal with. Some of them are courteous, no matter they buy products or commodities are offered to them, especially in the last case. Even if they are not interested in the purchase, they would at least hear one out. But there are also individuals who attack with vulgarisms and gruffness.

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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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Project Management Tools for HR

TimeCamp

The success of a company depends on many factors. For one thing, among the most key elements is the control over revenue and expenditure. Spent too much and you will beggar, earn too much and not account for it properly, you will experience unpleasantness due to problems with the local tax office. Another is HR. Let’s face the truth ? the growth of one’s company, especially in its formative years, is to a great extent determined by whom one hires and how they manage them.

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What to Pack in Your Bag to Work From Anywhere

TimeCamp

One of the challenges of remote work is working while traveling. As a remote worker, you often have to be available during different hours of the day, not only during the typical cycle of work from 9 to 5. This can be especially difficult when you have to go somewhere far from your home (because that’s where remote workers usually work). But we’ve got some tips for you which can help you during your trips, delegations, or even vacations (if you work remotely, you know that pain of wo

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Project Management Tools for Manufacturing

TimeCamp

Nowhere else will you find so many projects as in goods production industry, geared towards efficiency in production and output. This part of the business is larger with every single product we purchase, supply chains are more and more complex and requirements difficult to meet. Therefore, to successfully manage projects in manufacturing and make sure that results follow, one needs professional software to aid them in the matter, special project management tools for manufacturing, some of which