Wed.Jan 26, 2022

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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Andrew Trainer. This is a guest post by Andy Trainer of Silicon Beach Training. Project management is a field that is becoming increasingly valued within both large and small organizations – our project management training has never been so much in demand! It’s now widely recognized that having employees with great project management skills leads to more efficient processes, better uses of time, and less wastage than without.

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Legal Project Management: A Quick Guide with Free Templates

ProjectManager.com

A project is often considered something purely physical, like construction. The truth is, a project can be any work that has a beginning and an end. To that end, the legal industry has projects, too. Legal project management is well familiar to lawyers, even if they don’t necessarily use that phrase. The end result of their projects are typically a contract, a will or any number of results.

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How To Recover troubled programmes (part 1)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There’s only one thing worse than being told bad news, and that is being told about bad news late. When a program is failing, you should define the problem and potential solutions, and alert stakeholders at the first sign of trouble, according to LeRoy Ward, Executive VP at ESI. I attended ‘Managing and Saving Programs in a Changing World’, an audio/Webex conference with Ward recently.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

LiquidPlanner

When you work through manufacturing projects, you face some unique challenges, often with a lot at stake. You have to deliver your product at consistently high-quality standards, navigate end-to-end supply chains and manage strict time-to-market deadlines driven by eager customers or seasonal demands. In some cases, the entire project might be following a process where design, scope, cost, and time scales were fixed at the very beginning.

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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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Understanding Leadership

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If management is doing the right thing, then leadership is doing things right. You don’t have to be in charge to be a leader. You can demonstrate leadership skills at any level, from project coordinator to project director. Leadership is: setting a vision for the project with clear goals communicating the vision and goals enabling and motivating the team to achieve the vision and goals evaluating progress and providing feedback as required listening to and acting on feedback provided to you; and

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PMP Protein: Requirements Management and Requirements Traceability Matrix

Management Yogi

By Poornima Nagaraja, PMPMediocre requirement management processes are major causes for project failures. Continuous research studies constantly mention this aspect of management. Unfortunately, it continues till date. Many organizations believe (and rightly so) that utilizing the right set of project management processes would lead to high probability for project success.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Proggio as Your Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Solution

PM Times

With plenty of misleading “Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions” out in the market today, it is important to know how to choose the right one for your organization. Despite understanding how the software functions, you will also need to ask yourself which approach to your project portfolio management (PPM) do you want to take? Do […]. The post 5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Proggio as Your Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Solution appeared first on Project Management Articl

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3 Key Trends in Collaborative Work Management Tools for 2022

Leankor

Amid the unprecedented events and impacts of the recent past, arguably the most successful organizations have been those that are highly flexible and adaptive to change. As a result, more and more enterprises are now looking to Collaborative Work Management (CWM) tools/solutions to help their organizations and people stay nimble and connected as more change comes.

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Mentoring: How to Mentor a Colleague | Video

Online PM Courses

Mentoring is a way to pay forward all the help you have had through your career. But, mentoring is also a great way to learn yourself. The post Mentoring: How to Mentor a Colleague | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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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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Admation recognised as one of the Best Online Project Management Solutions

Admation

For years, Admation ’s project management software has helped customers make their project management more efficient and their marketing teams more productive. So, we ’re excited to say that Admation has been listed as one of the best project management software platforms.

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Do Your Leaders Have The Right Convictions About Innovation?

International Institute for Learning

By Tendayi Viki , Associate Partner and Author | Strategyzer. Without leadership support, corporate innovation projects are dead on arrival. Leadership support is so important that this is the first thing I ask for when I am working with innovation teams. I have worked with several teams that have tried to avoid getting leadership support for their projects.

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Best Practices For Marketing Teams Working With Freelancers

Admation

Let ’ s face it, marketers now work harder than ever. This is due to a few reasons. For one, since the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are using the internet and social media than ever before. This means more people work online, shop online, and consume entertainment online. In turn, as a result of digital transformation, many businesses now also focus their marketing and selling efforts on digital channels.

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