Fri.Sep 08, 2017

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Transformational Leader: How To Be One?

Project-Management.pm

Leaders set by example and their job is to ensure that team members are working towards successful tasks. A leader can both hated and loved, depending on how they implement certain styles in the work structure. Some leaders are able to encourage and motivate their members and others don’t. What certain qualities does one leader have that receives a high regard and respect?

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Benchmarking in Project Management (3): External Benchmarking

Inloox

In part 1 and 2 of our benchmarking series, we’ve already covered benchmarking in general and internal benchmarking in project management. The last part of the series will take a closer look at external benchmarking. External benchmarking helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses compared to your competition. Based on the benchmark, you’ll be able to create an action plan to improve your processes so you can increase your competitive advantage.

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Joint Application Development (JAD)

ActiveCollab

Joint Development Application (JAD) is a very common technique in business analysis world. It brings system developers and users together in a productive and creative environment through a structured approach that involves discussion groups with the goal to obtain requirements and specifications. In a nutshell, the ultimate purpose of JAD is to include the client in the development process and develop a more satisfactory end-product that will meet the client’s needs more efficiently.

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When your agency tries doing something they’ve never done before and it fails

The Digital Project Manager

The post When your agency tries doing something they’ve never done before and it fails appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Why should you integrate Knowledge Management into your Business Processes?

Hydra

Why should you integrate Knowledge Management (KM) into your Business Processes? By Paul Whiffen, Hartfield KM Consulting Ltd.

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Better visibility of events on your Dashboard

Resource Guru

A small but noteworthy update. We’ve aligned event details on the Dashboard with those of the Schedule. When you click on a Dashboard event, you will now see the details popover in all its glory instead of its less flamboyant tooltip predecessor. A lot of you have been asking for this so I hope you find it useful.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Common sense has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively, it seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful projects is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are successful prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after the work; after the project has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what the work is going to discover. — Russel Lincoln Ackoff,

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Improved API response times and network quality detection

Resource Guru

Oh, shut up, Maverick! We’ve been hard at work addressing some lingering issues regarding the performance of our API endpoints which mostly affected larger accounts when opening the Schedule. We’ve also noticed that our client-side network monitoring was picking up stray errors on the network that brought up false positives for some people.

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Why You Should Use Predictive Scheduling for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

I had a hallway conversation with my colleague about the best way to manage a project schedule. My colleague admitted to developing a pretty Gantt chart at the beginning of the project because executives like pictures. He also admitted that he wasn’t sure how accurate or up-to-date the schedule was with reality. When I asked how does he know whether the project is on track, he replied, “I manage with my gut.”.

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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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SwiftALM 2.2 Now Available

Digite

SwiftALM 2.2 is here! This release is packed with feature updates to our Mobile App , many UI/UX enhancements and MS Project and Excel 2016 support you have been waiting for. It also has the BETA version of our new Program Dependency Board that will enable Program Managers to visually keep track of dependencies between important work items across projects for program delivery as per plan.

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An In-Depth Look at the Top 8 Modern Project Management Tools

Paymo App

Project management tools have come a long way in the last few years. We thought it was about time for a detailed article about the modern tools designed to support the ways teams work today. Modern project management tools are a mix of strong functionality, intuitive features and a clear user interface. We scoured the market to come up with the top 8 tools.