Mon.Apr 15, 2019

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How to Manage a Construction Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Construction project management has similarities to managing projects in other industries: ultimately, you’re aiming to get something delivered on time, on budget and to the required scope with an acceptable degree of quality. The role of a construction project manager is to make that happen. The infographic below shares some common problems with construction projects and what you can do to stop them being an issue for you.

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How to work maternity leave into your long-term projects

Resource Guru

Project management is largely about time management. As a project manager, you’re an expert at systematizing time. You have the ability to assess the scope, set milestones, plan the timeline, assign the deliverables, and delegate your company’s people with resource and project management tools. But project managers aren’t in control of everything ; there are always some developments that have a direct effect on the progress of a project that fall outside of your control.

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Are You Making These 8 Stakeholder Mistakes?

Project Risk Coach

Have you ever had someone torpedo your project? Did this individual have a motive to undermine your efforts? Or, did you make some stakeholder mistakes that gave rise to this event? Either way, it's hindering your progress. Things are not going as planned. What can we do to manage stakeholder risks better? A Stakeholder Story I once observed a junior project manager who was knighted to manage a project with a fixed regulatory deadline.

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Can Resource Planning Software be Both - Easy to Use and Flexible?

Ganttic

Not long ago, we celebrated the world wide web’s 30th birthday. The creator of the World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee – said his brain-child is still in its awkward teenage phase. When looking at the problematic personality of the internet in all of its glory - the datafication, centralization, and balkanization - no one would dare to argue with him. When looking aside from the “quirks”, the story does not get much better.

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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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How To Be Healthier & More Productive At The Office

Proofhub

Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of emails you get? Do you want to boost your productivity for your daily work needs? When it comes to running a business, it is easy to get bogged down in the daily grind and forget about our selfcare. Sometimes a few small changes can go a long way in helping your productivity and overall health. 1. Take Regular Breaks No, we don’t mean a smoke break.

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Slack, Flow, and Continuous Improvement

Leading Agile

One of the key ways to keep work moving forward is to avoid working on too many things at the same time. Ideally, a person should finish what they’re working on before starting anything else. Similarly, a team should complete the work item or ticket or story (or whatever they call it) they’re working on before picking up the next one. At a larger scale, a software delivery organization should limit the number of projects in flight concurrently, and strive to “stop starting and

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Exploring Innovation in a Commercial Food Laboratory

Tony Adams

As part of my Masters studies, we visited the Monash University Food Innovation Centre to explore how innovation frameworks and thinking can be applied in commercial environments. Time to take the thinking out of the classroom and see how it works in practice. Brilliant innovative thinking, creative design work, collaboration, prototyping, imagination, augmented reality, and the best dang 3D printer that I’ve ever seen!

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Reach Your Business Goals Faster with Epicflow

Epicflow Blog

Epicflow clients create the most advanced products you can imagine. They connect continents with advanced telecom solutions, they change the automotive industry with new technologies, contribute to nutrition innovations, provide people with modern medical centers, give the shipbuilding industry unlimited technical opportunities. We’re proud to help outstanding companies create great products faster.

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Exploring Innovation in a Commercial Food Laboratory

Tony Adams

As part of my Masters studies, we visited the Monash University Food Innovation Centre to explore how innovation frameworks and thinking can be applied in commercial environments. Time to take the thinking out of the classroom and see how it works in practice. Brilliant innovative thinking, creative design work, collaboration, prototyping, imagination, augmented reality, and the best dang 3D printer that I’ve ever seen!

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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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What is Gamification and How Can This Help Your Business

Runrun.it

Gamification in business is all about the process to improve those things which are already existed. It is a method of integrating game mechanics into your system to add further value such as individual’s participation, engagement, and loyalty. This can be anything like a website, social media presence, an enterprise application or engagement. The scope […].

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