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Tutorial: How to Create A Video With Lumen5

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Cisco predict that 80% of internet traffic will be video by 2020. YouTube is thought of as the second-largest search engine. Pinterest has exploded in recent years. Visual, easily-understood communication is what your project stakeholders are seeing everywhere else. It’s what they’d love from you, about your project too. I’ve talked in the past about how I’ve used video as a communication tool on projects.

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Stage gates in Agile?

Musings on Project Management

One of my Agile Project Management students asked me about stage gates and agile. My first response was this: Agile is not a gated methodology, primarily because scope is viewed as emergent, and thus the idea of pre-determined gate criteria is inconsistent with progressive elaboration and emergence. Agile does embrace structured releases; you could put a criteria around a release and use.

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SwiftKanban/ SwiftESP for AKTs and KCPs

Digite

Last week, my colleague Navin and I had the pleasure and – indeed – the honor of meeting some of the best minds in Europe at the Kanban Leadership Retreat at Mayrhofen, Austria! Based on the announcement made there by Lean Kanban, Inc. (LKI), we are thrilled to announce the availability of SwiftKanban and SwiftESP for all Accredited Kanban Trainers (AKTs) and Kanban Coaching Professionals (KCPs)!

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Collaborative Project Management – A guide

Binfire

A guide to collaborative project management. For many of us who have been around for a while, changing culture is like boiling the ocean. In other words, it cannot be done easily. In my experience, if change is incremental and beneficial in the short-term, then it will be accepted by the team. Here are some ways that I have used to create a culture that supports Collaborative Project Management.

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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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JIRA as a Project Management Tool

GanttPRO Project Management

It is hard to meet anyone who works in IT-sphere and hasn’t heard a word about JIRA – specialized project management software. This very popular and highly customizable tool helps […].

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JIRA as a Project Management Tool

GanttPRO Project Management

It is hard to meet anyone who works in IT-sphere and hasn’t heard a word about JIRA – specialized project management software.

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Solving The Recruitment Process With Project Management

Eylean

Recruitment is a responsible and intense process that requires not only good understanding of human nature, but also great data management skills. Getting to that new hire usually takes several weeks. Keeping in mind that you are most likely looking to fill a few positions at a time, managing the process and all the associated … The post Solving The Recruitment Process With Project Management appeared first on Eylean Blog.

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How Marketing Agencies Stay Productive: Harrie Truscott of YOU & Co

Boost by Brightpod

This week we feature, Harrie Truscott, Marketing Manager at YOU & Co. YOU & Co Media is an Australian digital marketing agency offering bespoke servi.

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Reducing Common Misunderstandings among Team Members

Celoxis

A successful project requires as smooth execution as possible with minimal misunderstandings. However, no workplace is perfect, and it is common to find misunderstandings among team members and between team members and the project manager. Before a tiny seed of misunderstanding escalates, it is a project manager’s responsibility to anticipate, avoid and mitigate them early from the beginning.

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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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Make Sure Everyone Knows About Your Project

Leankor

The project manager wanting to run his project on the radar as much as possible? What kind of thinking is this? Why would any PM want to do that? Project managers often live in obscurity for years. Accolades go to the team, not often to the project manager. Blame maybe, but usually not big rewards. Success is expected, though sometimes hard to achieve.

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Risk Management: PMP Study Guide (PMBOK 6th Edition)

ExamsPM

Project Risk Management includes all the processes involved in risk identification, regulation, and mitigation on a project. The objective is to increase the likelihood of positive risks (opportunities) and decrease the likelihood of negative risks (threats). This article is part of a PMP Study Guide, and it has been updated for PMBOK 6th edition. Here are some key concepts for this Knowledge Area: Uncertainty – Uncertainty is a lack of knowledge about an event that reduces confidence in c

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You may be too foxy!

EarthPM

Although the title of this post might make you think this is some strange cross between Star Wars and the video game series by Sega, instead it’s a different sort of combination, mainly coming from a great NPR podcast called “Hidden Brain” by Shankar Vedantam and a book called Expert Political Judgement by Philip Tetlock. As a matter of fact, the title of this post is literally one of the chapters in Tetlock’s book.