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How to Create a Proven Project Management Framework

Workamajig

A well-defined project management framework will bring much-needed order to your projects. Learn how to create your own PM framework in this guide. Have you ever found yourself completely overwhelmed at the start of a project? Or maybe you’ve scoped out a project and wondered what to do next. If this describes you, you probably need a project management framework.

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Plug, Play, Repeat: The Best Strategies For More Productive Focus Time

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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: Understanding the Benefits of Both

ProjectManager.com

Defining skills as either hard or soft is slightly misleading. It implies that one might be more difficult or the other less important. The truth, as always, has a nuance that the jargon misses. Anyone who has spent time in a work environment understands that the distinction between hard skills and soft skills is an artificial one, as they often overlap.

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F.W. Taylor: should we care?

Musings on Project Management

How many project managers are still laboring with the aftermath of Fredrick Winslow Taylor, more popularly known as F.W. Taylor? Taylor Who? You might ask: Who was Taylor? Good question F.W. Taylor was one of the first to study business systematically -- an original "operations research" guy. He brought 'Taylorism" into the business culture in the years leading up to World War I.

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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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12 Quick & Easy Ways to Build Trust in the Workplace

Teamweek

Your ability to motivate your employees is built entirely on trust. Your employees must believe in you and be confident in your decisions so they can do their best work. By creating an environment of trust in the workplace, you make it more likely that employees will be committed to reaching their peak potential. There are simple ways of building trust like doing what you say you will do, but you’ll also find a range of more detailed tactics to improve their faith in you.

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Best Project Management Blogs to Follow in 2019

GoSkills

To help you keep abreast of emerging trends and best practices, here are 30+ of the best project management blogs you might want to check out.

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Being or Becoming?: Millennials in Software

Leading Agile

As each generation comes of age, they find ways to adapt to the world (or adapt the world to themselves). I’ve been around long enough to see this a few times. But I don’t recall any generation receiving quite as much explicit attention as the Millennials. No one really worried, with respect to previous generations, about the motivations, fears, hopes, dreams, worldview, or thought process of the young people who were merging into adult society in any given decade.

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5 Science-Backed Tips to Manage Your Remote Team Effectively

Proofhub

The digital revolution has done a lot for the modern workplace. Whether its project management, team communication, performance evaluation, or client invoicing, it has been offering tools and resources that have helped teams to become more organized and work more productively. Moreover, it has given rise to a remote work culture where employees get the flexibility to manage work from virtually anywhere.