Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 6, 2020

The skies are grey around our way. And with everything else happening in the world, it can feel like a challenge to keep a positive attitude at work when team members are preoccupied or just don’t want to work on your project. Someone got in touch recently with that exact point, and asked: “How can you maintain a positive, cheerful attitude when working with team members or stakeholders who cast doubt on the project?”.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 6, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the differences between qualitative and quantitative risk analysis. What is each? And when should you perform these processes? Let's dive in. Qualitative Risk Analysis Once you've identified your risks, it's important to evaluate your risks. Why? To establish the priorities of the risks. Which risks need a response?

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Scrum.org

APRIL 6, 2020

. Ever wonder how to get your first Scrum Master job with little to no experience? It’s a question I often get in my Professional Scrum classes. In this video blog, I’ll walk you through the ways to approach getting your first Scrum Master jobs, some places to look to get one, and also how you can quickly gain experience being a Scrum Master without your first job being one!

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MPUG

APRIL 6, 2020

I’ve been covering a variety of MS Project (MSP) tips and guidelines in my last few articles. This time, I thought I’d write about the most common errors found in MSP schedules. When I started using MSP in 1997, I had to learn it on my own without much guidance. During those early days, I know I made quite a few mistakes creating my project schedules.

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TeamGantt

APRIL 6, 2020

See how to move your team to remote work quickly—with as little red tape as possible—and get a free gantt chart template to manage your transition plan.

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Celoxis

APRIL 6, 2020

Project Management Software can prove to be an excellent tool for project managers to manage their projects and resources. But with the digital space overflowing with hundreds of project management software, it can be a daunting task to choose the right one.

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Wrike

APRIL 6, 2020

There are many ways to master the art of project management. But, with limited time and experience, it’s hard to know what to focus on. That’s why we’ve profiled the 10 most important project management skills every project manager needs to have. . Good project management skills can help teams achieve their goals and meet client expectations. Learn more about the skills needed for project management and how to master them using tools you may already have. .

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TimeCamp

APRIL 6, 2020

There are times when a business faces a crisis. With the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

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Project Bliss

APRIL 6, 2020

W orking from home with a disrupted routine and added distractions, these three tips will help you get focused fast. At the time I’m writing this post, life all over the world has changed. COVID-19 has impacted life everywhere. Many workplaces have closed their offices. Employees are working from home. People are stressed, worried, and trying to work under different circumstances.

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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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Musings on Project Management

APRIL 6, 2020

"When the facts change, I update my priors" Dr Bill Hanage of Harvard, as quoted in the press And so what exactly is he talking about? Answer: Bayesian statistical methods The essential matter in Bayes, as different from traditional frequency-of-occurrence statistics is that the starting point is a "guess" leavened by hypothesized or observed conditions.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 6, 2020

Time is right there in the holy trinity of project management—the triple constraint. The triple constraint consists of the scope, cost and time needed for a project. Every project must manage the triple constraint, and therefore must manage time. Projects by definition have a start and end date. Between those two points is the duration for the project.

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Online PM Courses

APRIL 6, 2020

An airplane is rather like a Project, and its captain is like a Project Manager. I'll explain why the role of a Project Manager is like that of a pilot. The post 7 Ways a Project Manager is like a Pilot | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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MindGenius

APRIL 6, 2020

Another week of homeworking? We know the effects that homeworking can have both physically and mentally on you. This blog is designed to help alleviate some of the stress caused by the current circumstances and help those at home to be at ease in a new working environment. Homeworking problems. As previously mentioned, working from home can have its problems for many of you transitioning from office life.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

APRIL 6, 2020

I like to cook. Well, I don’t really like to cook, but I like the result of cooking. I don’t like the heat, the grease, the (right) ingredients (I always forget something!) or the kitchen scale which I still don’t know how to use correctly. What I like is to see the food on a plate at the end – The tangible result of a few hours of work. This is very different from how I feel with my business, where I can spend hours working and there’s no result.

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Sitetracker

APRIL 6, 2020

Even during these uncertain times, 72% of IT leaders see their budgets increasing or remaining unchanged, according to a recent poll by Pulse. Sitetracker’s own Telecom Infrastructure Provider Outlook found a correlating sentiment among Telecom executives and increasing project volume: 68% of participants surveyed anticipate increased or similar demand for telecom infrastructure. 41% of participants anticipate moderate or significantly increased demand.

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ProProfs Project Management

APRIL 6, 2020

Marketers today are facing incredible competition. In the field of digital marketing, the amount of developed content is mammoth. Without adopting some smart ways to make processes faster, it is very difficult to keep your productivity up. . A research conducted in 2015 has suggested that nearly 45 percent of the paid activities can be automated via modern technologies.

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Stepping Into Project Management

APRIL 6, 2020

I hope you are all safe and at home. These are difficult times and yes we have the time now to look back to review our own system. I have been doing exactly that and have made some changes to my lifestyle I never thought I would be able to do and waking up at 6am is one of those. All the links that I mention in the video have been included in the description box of the video.

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PM for the Masses

APRIL 6, 2020

You are likely staying home and away from many things that have kept you busy. In this episode, I share my tips to keep your body, mind, and soul engaged so you learn to do well and even thrive in difficult circumstances. You are likely staying home and away from many things that have kept you busy. In this episode, I share my tips to keep your body, mind, and soul engaged so you learn to do well and even thrive in difficult circumstances.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 6, 2020

Business agility is big word these days, with conferences, books and new certification programs popping up pretty much everywhere. For employees that are more distanced to the Scrum teams in an IT organization, business agility often means simply applying an agile process within a team in their business unit, for example HR, Finance, Procurement, Marketing etc.

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Teamweek

APRIL 6, 2020

On Wednesday, April 1st, we deployed a technical update to our third party integrations system. Not long after the release, we noticed some possible data anomalies. As concern grew about the integrity of third party data being brought into our system, we had to make the difficult decision to take service offline in order to perform data maintenance.

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