Fri.Jul 31, 2020

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What To Do When Your Team Doesn’t Believe The Project Schedule

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is an extract from Project Pain Reliever. I contributed this chapter (and another one) to the book. This one is about ensuring everyone buys into the project schedule. The One-Man Plan: A Story. Hans had spent a lot of time working on his project schedule. He knew what needed to be done and how long everything would take. Requirements gathering, that would take a couple of days, right?

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Project Leadership: What Is It and Which Skills Are Required?

ProProfs Project Management

Project management turns into a nightmare in the absence of project leadership. . Picture a cruise ship that is sailing without a captain. Ask yourself – ‘will it reach its destination?’. No, obviously! . Behind every successful project, there is a leader – who has the right skills and qualities required to steer the team. . A project leader keeps their team motivated and ensures that each task is executed perfectly during the development process.

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How to Create the Perfect Stakeholder Management Plan

Wrike

The involvement of key stakeholders can make or break a project. At the end of the day, your project will be a failure if the outcome doesn’t meet stakeholder expectations — even if you finish within budget and on-time. That’s why a stakeholder management plan is an essential document to include when kickstarting an initiative. A stakeholder management plan will help you ensure project deliverables and expectations align, and that your project is seen as a success.

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Enjoy (And Request) Vacation Days In A Stress-Free Way

Trello

A tell-tale sign of needing a day off is when you begin googling, “how to relax”, or the simple fact that you’re reading a post about how to enjoy a vacation. Either way, no judgment.

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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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Notification improvements, repeat bookings fixes, plus a whole lot more

Resource Guru

Things have been manic here at Guru HQ over the last month or so. Our team has been keeping out of trouble by focusing on fixes, improvements, and, of course, pushing out highly requested features. In addition to deploying a brand new feature that has been on our roadmap for a long time, we’ve also made a lot of improvements to streamline the experience across the board: ?

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Notification improvements, repeat bookings fixes, plus a whole lot more

Resource Guru

Things have been manic here at Guru HQ over the last month or so. Our team has been keeping out of trouble by focusing on fixes, improvements, and, of course, pushing out highly requested features. In addition to deploying a brand new feature that has been on our roadmap for a long time, we’ve also made a lot of improvements to streamline the experience across the board: The skipped days notification no longer bombards you with information that you have already seen.

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Be the boss of your overwhelm

Lynne Cazaly

Letting overwhelm get the better of us feels like ‘it’s all over us’ Recent months of change have shown us plenty of overwhelming experiences! As we traverse a ladder of overwhelm, at times we’re DROWNING; too much to do, too many commitments, so much on. Or we may be STRUGGLING. Learning new skills is an example. There’s so much information and many new concepts, it’s overwhelming for sure !

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How to Take a Digital Break When Your Job is Online

Teamweek

I’ve been working from home as a freelance journalist for two years and I’m acutely aware of how my work hours have only increased in the past few months. My days have melted into nights and at one point I was waking up at 4 a.m. to answer emails because it was only afternoon somewhere else in the world. These days, when I’m not on my laptop working, I’m probably on my phone scrolling through the news or social media.

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Working smarter, more efficiently

Lynne Cazaly

When our to do list is long, we can be keen to find a quick productivity fix: a better app, a new method, a new book. But these fixes take a process and just apply it over the top of our existing behaviours, band-aid style. All the years we’ve been working, we’ve been forming our own habits and ways of working. That’s how we got like this!

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Strategic Finance Essentials: A Project Manager’s Guide to Financial Impact

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 expendi

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Overwhelmed with information

Lynne Cazaly

Have you felt it lately? Our sponge gets full - gradually or rapidly - and then we’re ‘done’ We can’t keep taking information in unless we do something to get the existing information out! Where does your overload come from? - A day of back to back meetings - A new project - The to do list - Working from home - Dealing with uncertainty and stress.

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Overwhelmed by the gap

Lynne Cazaly

When the gap is too big between where I am and where I’d like to be, it can seem insurmountable, uncrossable, impossible. It’s a huge step towards a big goal. After all, we’ve been told to ‘dream big’ haven’t we. While we know every journey begins with a single step, it can look more like a leap or pole vault from where we are.

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