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What is a Programme in Project Management? 3 Types of Programme

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is a programme in project management terms? Here’s a definition. A programme is a set of related projects and activities, managed in a coordinated fashion and under a structure that allows for the delivery of outcomes and benefits. And in the UK, we really do spell programme like that! If you work on a programme, either as a project manager, or in a programme office role (or as the programme manager) you’ll know that the idea is that your work contributes to the organisation’s strategic aim

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Leadership KPIs

ProjectManager.com

How can you track your progress as a leader? Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how to set up leadership key performance indicators (KPIs) to do just that. Here’s a screenshot for your reference! In Review – Leadership KPIs. Before you can track your success as a leader, Jennifer said, you must know what a leader is. That, she explained, is a person with the ability to lead a group of people towards achieving a common goal.

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How To Identify And Avoid Project Scope Creep

The Digital Project Manager

Learn what is project scope creep and how undermines a project. What are the main causes and five core principles to manage scope creep. The post How To Identify And Avoid Project Scope Creep appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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5 Reasons to Get Your PMI-RMP® Certification

Project Risk Coach

I recently had a project manager ask me which of the PMI certifications he should pursue. That depends—it depends on your goals as a project manager. Certainly, the Project Management Professional (PMP) ® and the Project Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) ® certifications supercharged my project management career. I became a Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2001.

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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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Shifting & Sharing the Teaching Responsibility

Scrum.org

Shift & Share is a Liberating Structure that helps spread novelty across groups and functions. Innovators showcase their ideas or products and gather meaningful feedback in short cycles. In one hour or less it’s possible to include everyone in a large group and make every voice heard in a structured, constructive way. In an earlier blog post we described how you can use Shift & Share for….

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How to Always Have Projects at Hand with GanttPRO: Modified Export and Improved Application Speed

GanttPRO Project Management

Online project planning tools allow managers and teams to have 24/7 access to their projects. What could be better? Planning, management, and collaboration happen from any place anytime. But what […].

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50 Project Management Quotes to Inspire You Before Your Next Project

Teamweek

Looking for some inspiration for your next big project? Look no further than these project management quotes from heavy hitters like Peter Drucker, Walt Disney, and Henry Ford. “Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.” – Joy Gumz. “A good plan can help with risk analysis, but it will never guarantee the smooth running of the project.” – Bentley and B

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How to Always Have Projects at Hand with GanttPRO: Modified Export and Improved Application Speed

GanttPRO Project Management

Online project planning tools allow managers and teams to have 24/7 access to their projects. What could be better? Planning, management, and collaboration happen from any place anytime.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

No sensible decision can be made without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it might be — Isaac Asimov. To make sensible decisions, in the presence of uncertainty - reducible and irreducible - we need to estimate the probability that the decision will be the right decision. The world as it will be requires estimating the future using a variety of means.

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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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Proven for Projects

MindGenius

Proven for Projects. Laura Cunningham October 2018. On October 9th and 10th, the MindGenius team ventured to London to attend the Project Challenge Expo at the Olympia in Kensington. The expo gave us the opportunity to discuss the features with the target market in detail. This gave us an invaluable insight into how MindGenius can work for a range of different project management styles and a range of different project teams.

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Giveaway: Free PMO Ebook +Exciting Announcement

Stepping Into Project Management

Hello October! So, lets just say this Fall is starting with some exciting news. In collab with Toronto based Parwaaz Consulting Corporation , we are bringing you some great stuff meant for anyone interested in PMO or entrepreneurs working towards your scaling business goals. So, lets say you’re a project manager, portfolio manager, or an operational manager that’s had an amazing opportunity fall in your lap.

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How Timesheets Can Ease Your Pain

TimeCamp

Why Timesheets Can Be Evil? Problems with timesheets are so common these days that many.

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Having a Definition of Ready: Harmful or Helpful?

Leading Agile

Mike Cohn’s August 2016 article, The Dangers of a Definition of Ready describes certain problems that can occur when a team uses the concept of a Definition of Ready. He writes: You can think of a Definition of Ready as a big, burly bouncer standing at the door of the iteration. Just as a bouncer at a nightclub only lets certain people in—the young, the hip, the stylishly dressed—our Definition-of-Ready bouncer only allows certain user stories to enter the iteration.

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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.

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Congrats You’re an SME

Design2Train

The post Congrats You’re an SME appeared first on Design2Train.

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What is the Difference Between Project and Portfolio Management?

Wrike

PM, PPM, PgM. What is the difference between portfolio management and project management, exactly? And where does program management fit in? Here’s a quick explanation of each in plain English to help you distinguish the differences. What is Portfolio Management? A portfolio is a high-level view of all the projects an organization is running in order to meet the business’s main strategic objectives.