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Seven Priorities for Project Managers in 2023

ProjectManager.com

Anyone who tells you, with 100 percent certainty, what 2023 will look like at the start of the year is bonkers. The best we can do is to recognize that the seed of each new year was planted in the previous year. If you want to know what your priorities should be for 2023, look at the way your world was at the end of 2022 and at the start of this year.

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Everything You Need to Know About Release Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Do you have a release manager on the team? Or are you wondering whether it would be a pretty good job to move into? It wasn’t until I worked in IT as a project manager that I had a lot of contact with the release management process. My software projects needed releasing, so we had to follow the formal process and engage with the release manager to make sure that the bug fixes and new features got pushed to the production environment in a controlled way.

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How to Make a Production Flow Chart for Manufacturing Processes (Example Included)

ProjectManager.com

Manufacturing requires an understanding of production, its phases and when you need to assemble the product you’re building. Mapping this out with a production flow chart ensures a more seamless process. What is a production flow chart? We’ll get to that shortly. We’ll also show you how one works and even provide you with an example to see a production flow chart in action.

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The 10 Rs of Crisis Management

International Institute for Learning

By Edward Segal. A lot can depend on when and how a crisis is managed, including an organization’s image and reputation, operations and activities, bottom line, and future. . While it is not possible to prevent every crisis, you can at least get ready for them the best you can by following some basic rules. The following 10 Rs of crisis management can be your road map to help prevent, manage, and recover from crisis situations.

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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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Best of: The Paradox of Patience, Planning and Expectations

PM Times

If your goal is optimal performance, cultivate the mindful awareness that enables clarity and responsiveness. Accept and work with paradoxes to embrace both-and thinking. A well-respected mindfulness meditation master, advised that “A mind which thinks, expects, and plans, blocks off wisdom.” Following this advice would leave most of our projects at sea without a rudder. […].

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Capacity Planning: A Complete Guide For Agencies

Teamweek

Capacity planning helps you determine your agency’s ability to meet demand through your team resources. By neglecting capacity planning, your agency faces two big problems: You don’t know if you have enough bandwidth to take on a new project or if you need to hire. You don’t know if you’re utilizing their team profitably. At a company level, these problems slow down growth and reduce profits.

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Power Tool: Powerless to Powerful

International Institute for Learning

By Elaina Carpino. Introduction. If not you, then who? If not now, then when? – Hillel the Elder. In today’s VUCA (vulnerable, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world, it is natural to feel overwhelmed, and in a state of powerlessness. This feeling of powerlessness can impair your ability to move forward into action. The longer your inaction, the more powerless you become.

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Social Media Workflow and Automation

ActiveCollab

Everyone knows that social media is a powerful communication tool, and there is no secret about that. But what newcomers still struggle to realize is how to use social media in the most efficient way. Social media changes and evolves as we speak; however, it's important to maintain a content workflow in place. It means your content will be effective and reach the target audience.

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Let’s Go Retro: How To Run An Effective Project Retrospective

The Digital Project Manager

Here’s a good mantra for your project retrospectives: “Sometimes you gotta look backwards to move forward.” You’re inching closer to a project due date. The sponsor is expecting to see your awesome deliverable presented on time, under budget and with all the bells and whistles they asked for. Your project team is working towards meeting […]. The post Let’s Go Retro: How To Run An Effective Project Retrospective 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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Why and How to Celebrate Project Completion | Video

Online PM Courses

Your project has been completed. Yay! But, what now? You need to celebrate project completion. Let’s talk about why and how. The post Why and How to Celebrate Project Completion | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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The 9 Most Popular Project Management Methodologies Made Simple

The Digital Project Manager

Get an overview of 9 of the most popular project management methodologies and understand how they can be best leveraged for delivering digital projects. The post The 9 Most Popular Project Management Methodologies Made Simple appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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New updates to Resource Request & Approval Workflow

Hub Planner

An Early Christmas Present for Resource Management. With the festive holidays only a few short days away, you may be starting to wind down the resource management efforts, grabbing some last minute Christmas presents. Passing the Secret Santa office gifts and hopefully a Christmas celebration or two. But here in Hub Planner, we’re busy developing new and exciting features to enhance your resource mangement experience.