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10 Best Project Planning Software Of 2020

The Digital Project Manager

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A shopping guide for a project management Christmas

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? If your Christmas project planning has gone a bit awry and you still have gifts to buy, here is my list of what to get the project managers in your life. Or you could suggest that people buy these things for you! There are so many cables on my desk at the moment. My skills at managing cables are non-existent.

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Illuminating the Intangibles of Agile

Leading Answers

We intuitively know that a successful agile adoption requires more than copying agile practices. It needs more than just working in short iterations and having daily stand-up meetings. But can we label those missing ingredients? You may have seen the “agile iceberg” model that shows the visible practices agile teams perform as the tip of an enormous iceberg supported by a mindset, values and principles.

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How to Get SAFe Certified

Agilemania

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has emerged as the most accepted approach to an organization’s quest to thrive in the digital age characterized by highly increasing complexity. While SAFe provides organizations with the requisite ability to quickly adapt to market changes and emerging opportunities, to succeed at transformation, it is imperative that the whole organization understands, embraces, and applies Lean-Agile mindset… The post How to Get SAFe Certified appeared first on Agilemania.

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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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5 Effective Tips To Meet Deadlines & Get Work Done On Time

Teamweek

Project teams that meet deadlines consistently are able to deliver projects on schedule. A PwC study found that only 2.5 percent companies were able to complete 100% projects project successfully. Often failure was caused by not completing projects on time. The end result was budget overruns, let-down stakeholders, and a demoralized team. If you can relate to that, you’re not alone.

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Tradeoff vs corruption

Musings on Project Management

How do you know when you've crossed the line from making trade-offs to fomenting corruption?That's not a question asked very often in the is space, and not usually asked in polite company.Nonetheless, it happens.And, what is "it"?"It" is making decisions about doing 'this' or 'that' that are a violation of accepted norms wherein the outcomes have an inappropriate personal benefit, rather than a.

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Microsoft Project Tutorial

GanttPRO Project Management

Whether you are new to project management or have years of experience in the industry, you must have heard or even worked in MS Project. This popular project management software […].

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The struggle of decision making

Lynne Cazaly

In the times of uncertainty we’ve been experiencing, it can feel too hard or overwhelming to make decisions. There are so many options, scenarios and what ifs that are possible Try this 1-2-3 mantra I use with mentoring clients: 1. Find the path A path helps give us more certainty of where we’re heading - even if we don’t know all the details or what’s ahead yet.

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Microsoft Project Tutorial

GanttPRO Project Management

Whether you are new to project management or have years of experience in the industry, you must have heard or even worked in MS Project. This popular project management software […]. The post Microsoft Project Tutorial first appeared on GanttPRO.

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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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What’s new in your change toolkit

Lynne Cazaly

Change is almost always a complex, gnarly process with many moving parts. and people. Resistance is common. Misunderstandings frequent. We’re change fatigued, weary (and wary) of more change to things at work. And preaching 'change is a constant' doesn't get people into it any quicker or easier. It’s hard to engage and inspire people on why it's happening and what their role is.

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Microsoft Project Tutorial

GanttPRO Project Management

Whether you are new to project management or have years of experience in the industry, you must have heard or even worked in MS Project.

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A light dusting of creativity

Lynne Cazaly

As we are faced with ongoing uncertainty, change and complex situations, it helps to bring a little more creativity to the challenges at hand. Many of us think we’re not so creative but the thing with creativity is, you only need a little of it. Like condiments - salt, pepper, sauces - we may only need a sprinkle. We don’t need big foundations or heavy applications.

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Hot takes on field operations from telecom leaders.

Sitetracker

Field service software has been decoupled from deployment operations for far too long. Times are changing, especially in 2020, where having field crews siloed from other departments is no longer an option for companies striving for success. This week, Sitetracker hosted a webinar tackling this very topic and spoke with market leaders about how they are connecting the field to the rest of their business.

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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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Sweeping and drinking coffee

Lynne Cazaly

There they were, doing both things at once. Sweeping. Drinking coffee. Neither was being done particularly well. They’d spilled some coffee down their shirt. They’d missed some of the dirt and leaves and kept resweeping the same area, again and again. (Or maybe they didn’t realize they’d already swept that area.) Juggling tasks can lead us towards overwhelm.

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Introducing nTask Boards: A Visualization Method for Project Success

nTask

When you want to achieve your personal or organizational goals, managing just a simple task list won’t fulfill the purpose. You will need a workflow, visualized to show the roadmap for goal achievement. The tasks when put on a board, depicted by cards, can help better understand the direction you are headed to, and make it easier to accomplish your assignments in time.

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The Ultimate Guide To Project Management Timelines

Wrike

Making the most out of your project management timeline tools is not about plugging everything in and hoping for the best. Your project timeline should be the control center and knowledge hub for everything related to project deliverables and due dates. . Without an optimized process for tracking work, expectations get derailed, bottlenecks stifle productivity, and your fancy, new project timeline becomes obsolete.