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What Does it Feel Like to be a Project Manager (True Story)

PM Basics

You might have a wrong understanding of a Project Manager’s Role. The title may command authority and leadership to you. It is not that simple. In this article, I want to shed some light on what does it feel like to be a project manager. There are three distinct stages: 1. What Does it Feel Like to be a Junior Project Manager? With correct attitude your project team will help you through this period.

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Leading Positions 2.0 – Changes and Their New Challenges

Inloox

Change is good and important for progress. Without change we would get nowhere. Today, change primarily means internationalization and digitization. But change can also bring a lot of difficulties and problems. At the very least, though, it means different requirements for your new employees and adaptation for your existing ones. Changing requirements While until this day features like assertiveness, autonomy and a lot of self-confidence were important for management personnel, in order to have

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DPM Podcast: Pimp Your Agile Ride (with Alexa Huston)

The Digital Project Manager

One way to do optimize your agile approach is to make your meetings or ceremonies more effective. Ben Aston talks to Alexa Huston about sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives to give you the inside track on how you can do them better. The post DPM Podcast: Pimp Your Agile Ride (with Alexa Huston) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Agile 103

Musings on Project Management

Did you miss this? My presentation to the Central Florida Chapter of PMI with a presentation entitled: "Agile 103 -- THE THREE BIG QUESTIONS". You can get it at slideshare.net/jgoodpas. Agile 103? Because it covers material not in your usual Agile 101 course The Three Big Questions? After working with hundreds of students who go through PMI's Agile Project Management course, of which I am.

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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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What Is a Project Analyst?

ProjectManager.com

Projects can be complex endeavors. They often have many moving parts that need to work together, and the logistics can be like a knot. That’s why distinct project management roles are adopted, so everyone isn’t pulling in different directions at once. The project manager is responsible for bringing the project in on time and within budget, but there is a team of people who help steer that big ship successfully to port, often working collaboratively via project management software.

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Face It: Silos Exist. Here’s How to Make the Most of Them

LiquidPlanner

If you Google the phrase “breaking down silos”, you get over 100,000 results. If you search for “building silos”, you get about one-fifth as many. The first result is “The Silo Mentality: How to Break Down The Barriers.”. There’s an assumption that silos are a bad thing. But, generally, if something exists, there’s a reason for it. So rather than breaking down silos, I’d like to take a different point of view and ask: Why do silos exist?

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How to Use Technology to Increase Your Productivity

Scoro

“Technology” and “productivity” are two words that often don’t have a positive association. Lately, the word technology alone is usually enough to conjure the negative images of a distracted teenager scrolling through social media on their phones or a frustratingly outdated computer that never works quite right. And while it is true that technology—when not used strategically—does sometimes have the potential to cause distractions, create confusion, or decelerate an otherwise industrious day, it

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New Feature: Project View 2.0

Teamweek

Roadmapping is an increasingly important piece in our own workflow. And that has made us see project planning in a whole new light. That’s why we’re happy to announce the redesigned version of the Project View. . Project View 2.0. You can now divide your projects into different segments. Here at Teamweek, for example, one project might have three project segments: research, design, and development.

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Popper, Falsifiability and #NoEstimates

Herding Cats

In 1949, Popper turned his attention to questions like Is there a criterion for the character or status of a conjecture ? (In his case a Theory, mostly around theoretical physics and General Relativity). The problem is not when a conjecture like - #Noestimates - may be true but establishing defensible criteria for drawing the distinction between a principle and the pseudo-science of an unsubstantiated conjecture that credible decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty, while spending

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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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Time Tracking Plugin for Chrome

TimeCamp

What’s The Magic Behind Time Tracking Plugin? Nowadays, time tracking is a very common thing.

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Popper, Falsifiability and #NoEstimates

Herding Cats

In 1949, Popper turned his attention to questions like Is there a criterion for the character or status of a conjecture ? (In his case a Theory, mostly around theoretical physics and General Relativity). The problem is not when a conjecture like - #Noestimates - may be true but establishing defensible criteria for drawing the distinction between a principle and the pseudo-science of an unsubstantiated conjecture that credible decisions can be made in the presence of uncertainty, while spending

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Self organising teams at The Times

Scrum.org

The Times News were on a journey to re-platform their system. While working diligently behind feature flags, using elements of Scrum, it wasn’t clear to the stakeholders the value being delivered and how well the teams were progressing towards their end goal. After reviewing the portfolio, the programme leadership team (PLT) recognised they needed to strike a balance between moving towards the proposed technical platforming and delivering valuable features for the business and readers.

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What is a Project Team Structure and Why is it Necessary?

Techno-PM

What is a Project Team? A Project Team is a group of individuals who belong to different departments or groups and are assigned to the activities and deliverables of the same project. A project team is formed for a fixed period of time and will be disbanded once the project has been completed. Download this template here Project Team Structure Template It is basically a group of members who work towards a common goal and are responsible for the desired outcomes.

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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.