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Remote team project management: 5 tips to avoid micromanaging

Resource Guru

Nothing sinks a remote project team faster than micromanagement. It sends the message that you don’t trust your remote team to do their jobs. In fact, an HBR study found that 34% of employees said that their supervisors blatantly showed a “lack of confidence” in their work skills. This creates a recipe for burnout and ruins morale and productivity.

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Project Assumptions: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Making assumptions is usually frowned upon. However, in project management, project assumptions are essential for planning a project. But how do project assumptions differ from the assumptions that often mislead us in our daily lives? Let’s take a look at how project assumptions are defined in project management and why they’re so important. Then we’ll learn about a project assumption log and how assumptions differ from constraints and risk.

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…too much transparency in a Scrum Master?

Scrum.org

Is there such a thing as “too much transparency within the organization”? Are there any boundaries to where a transparency created by a Scrum Master should not reach? When looking at Scrum pillars, we clearly see: transparency, inspection and adaptation as core beliefs on which Scrum stands. But what if we take transparency into extremum.? Let’s see what will happen.

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What is ADKAR? The ADKAR Model of Change | Video

Online PM Courses

ADKAR is a 5-step model of how individuals respond to change. It helps us to plan our change management programs accordingly. The post What is ADKAR? The ADKAR Model of Change | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Do I Hear an Amen?

PM Times

Subconscious biases and habits of mind dominate or influence 85% to 95% of our emotions, judgments, reactions, decisions, behaviors, actions, and results. What’s your reaction to what you just read? When I heard that during WBECS’s coaching education platform led by Peter Demarest, a thought leader in the integration of axiology and neuroscience, I was […].

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What have I learned through my campaign project?

Kiron Bondale

My previous article covered the risks which were realized through my campaign to become a councilor within Welland’s city council in the recent municipal elections. This one focuses on the lessons I learned through the project’s lifetime. With the exception of two streets where I had a couple of kind volunteers drop off my campaign flyers, I did all the door-to-door canvassing myself.

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How to Choose Between Asana, Jira and nTask for Your Next Project?

nTask

As the project manager in a small business or start-up, you're undoubtedly familiar with at least one of these project management tools: Asana vs Jira or nTask – the best of all. But which one is best for your next project? This blog aims to help you make that decision by comparing and contrasting the […].

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WEATHERING THE STORM

International Institute for Learning

An Anniversary Remembrance. (A tribute to my mentor, Morton Silverstein, Former Head of News & Public Affairs Channel 2 CBS News). By d.b. Roderick. While Hurricane Sandy affected a specific region of the United States, the lessons learned from natural disasters know no boundaries. Thus, we hope this update and reminiscences on the video series produced by IIL Media (a division of International Institute for Learning, Inc.) at the time, will not only inspire but also raise awareness about th

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The Role of Collaborative Work Management Solutions in Large-Scale Project Management

Leankor

It may sound obvious, but enterprise-sized projects need an enterprise-sized work and project management solution to ensure on time and on budget delivery. So, what exactly qualifies as an enterprise-sized project? Common characteristics include multi-faceted, complex projects with many dependencies that span numerous teams and departments and have multi-month or even multi-year timelines.

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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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The Future of Work Requires Anti-Racist Leadership

International Institute for Learning

By James D. White & Krista White. While phenomena dubbed “quiet quitting” or The Great Resignation feel disorienting and frustrating, they boil down to workers demanding to be treated with respect and human dignity. The pandemic, the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the ongoing reverberations of #MeToo have shone a harsh light on the status quo of corporate culture.

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12 Remote Project Management Best Practices & Strategies For 2022

The Digital Project Manager

At this point it’s safe to say that just about everyone working in the digital space is working remotely at least some of the time. For project managers, this presents some unique challenges. How can you stay synced with your team if you can’t meet them in person? How can you ensure your team is […]. The post 12 Remote Project Management Best Practices & Strategies For 2022 appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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8 Best Note Taking Apps for Mac that Will Make You a Better Student! 

nTask

Note-taking has always been a challenging task, but that doesn't mean there's not a better option out there. In this post, we'll be discussing the best note taking apps for Mac available on the market today. From its user interface to its features, this app has everything you need to take good notes and easily […].

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Three Key Qualities of a Great Leader

Bridge the Gap Consulting

“You can be a leader, or an excuse maker. You cannot be both. Good leaders talk about where to go. Great leaders help you get there and don’t make excuses along the way.” Did I hear that right? Did he just start talking about leadership during a church sermon? This guy’s a pastor, not a business coach! I must’ve heard him wrong.

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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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How Stakeholder Interaction and Engagement Impacts Project Complexity

International Institute for Learning

First published by CONNECT, International Centre for Complex Project Management. By Dr. Leon Herszon. Stakeholder interaction and their engagement level is an important element of project success. In this article, we will address how relevant the different viewpoints and interests of project stakeholders can impact project complexity. During the process of deciding the aim and main objective of my PhD research [1] , an important element was to create a model that could support project managers,