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A Quick Guide to Business Process Mapping

ProjectManager.com

Work in the dark and eventually you’re going to hit a wall. While the myth of the entrepreneur who comes up with a million-dollar idea and then just sits back and watches the money roll in might be persuasive, it’s a fiction. Ideas are scattered across the business landscape like seeds. Without creating a nutritious soil for those seeds to take root and grow, they die unseen.

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What is a Help Desk? 7 Ways a Help Desk Can Improve Customer Retention

Planio

No matter how amazing your software or product is, someone ’s going to have problems with it. That’s undeniable. And whether they’ve found a bug, need help getting their account set up, or messed something up themselves doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that their problem gets solved. Not a lot of technical teams think about customer support.

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Great Team but Poor Project Management? You Could Be Crippling Your Business’s Success

Proofhub

Finding top talent can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. But once you find the skilled, knowledgeable, and hardworking employees you need, your business is on the path to success. Right? If your employees can’t effectively communicate or manage their time when working on projects, your business could be in trouble. So, do you think you have assembled the greatest team in the world?

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The Ultimate Guide to Gantt Charts: Everything about the Tool You Can’t Ignore for Project Planning

GanttPRO Project Management

What is a Gantt chart? A Gantt chart is a bar chart with two axes – a horizontal one and a vertical one. The first one is used to define […].

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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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Mike Cottmeyer @ Agile + DevOps West

Leading Agile

Whitepaper Lead a Structured and Disciplined Agile Transformation Download Now. When it comes to an Agile Transformation, going through the motions of adopting a new set of attitudes, processes, and behaviors at the team level is easy. The hard part is building the enabling structures that allow Agile to thrive, aligning the flow of work, measuring progress based on outcomes, and achieving communicable results that will resonate with stakeholders.

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Problems, Solutions, and The Millennium Falcon

Leading Agile

One of the challenges faced by many organizations hoping to improve their ability to deliver value through Business Agility is that they get so caught up in selecting a solution that they lose sight of the actual problem they are trying to solve. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultants Luke Pirrello and Tom Furland join Dave Prior in exploring better ways to go about understanding the problem that needs to be addressed and then designing a solution that fits the problem wi

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How to Improve Collaboration Within Your eLearning Team

ProProfs Project Management

There’s no denying that “two heads are better than one”. While this adage is undeniably true, the question is not only how do you achieve seamless collaboration, but how to improve collaboration in order to ensure the attainment of shared goals? Well, according to the famous philanthropist and business magnate, Andrew Carnegie, the answer lies in teamwork—.

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Decision Making in Complex Project Environments

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

“It is feeling more and more chaotic for our leaders… change coming in from all directions… and they need to make decisions with more certainty so that the outcomes will be successful.”. Leadership and Strategy Execution in a Chaotic World. How do you make decisions without all the facts, where challenges are less predictable and information is less reliable?

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The Ultimate Guide to Gantt Charts: Everything about the Tool You Can’t Ignore for Project Planning

GanttPRO Project Management

What is a Gantt chart? A Gantt chart is a bar chart with two axes – a horizontal one and a vertical one.

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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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Learn How To Write S.M.A.R.T. Project Objectives (With Examples)

The Digital Project Manager

The post Learn How To Write S.M.A.R.T. Project Objectives (With Examples) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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In A Creative Drought? 3 Ways To Get Your Ideas Flowing

Trello

We’ve all been there. Staring at a whiteboard, trying to pick a strategy out of thin air. Struggling to think of a name for your trivia team. Watching that blinking cursor dance atop a fresh document, waiting for your input. Just waiting. Drawing a blank is all too common when you’re tasked with coming up with something new. Whether it’s in art, business, or life—creativity on tap (like that fresh beer at your local brewery) isn’t something you’re guaranteed to always have.

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Meet TeamGantt’s new sidebar & gantt chart | TeamGantt

TeamGantt

TeamGantt’s sidebar and gantt chart have a fresh new look! See the latest updates, and get a sneak peek at some exciting new features coming soon.

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A look inside Sitetracker Sales: An interview with VP of Sales at Sitetracker, Irene Scher

Sitetracker

When I first heard about Irene, the Vice President of Sales at Sitetracker, I heard the following things from colleagues around the office: “She’s a total badass.” “She’s really good at her job.” “She’s the most fashionable person I’ve ever met.” These are real quotes. I knew all of the talk was true the moment she walked into the room. Her presence is undeniable and it is clear from the second you meet her that she is a leader.

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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.