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Ten Ways to Win Team Commitment on Your Project

Online PM Courses

If you want to supercharge your project team, your first step is to win their commitment. But although team commitment is easy to define and spot, it is hard to create. Yet the best project leaders seem to do it with ease. So what are their secrets? In this article, we reveal all. I’ll list the top ten ways to win team commitment, and secure a supercharged project team, that will: Work hard.

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How to Identify Scope Risks

Project Risk Coach

8 ways to identify scope risks Some project managers struggle to identify scope risks. Why? Image courtesy of Adobe Stock. First, individuals may lack a concrete understanding of scope; scope seems to be a nebulous concept. WHAT exactly is scope? Second, individuals may not know HOW to identify scope risks. Either way, the failure to identify (and manage) scope risks can be costly.

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5 Common Roadblocks on Projects (And What To Do About Them)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Getting a project over the line and delivering what you set out to do – it’s a journey! Even experienced project managers will tell you that there are a number of project roadblocks that can stop them from doing their best work and completing initiatives on time and on budget. Below I’ve called out 5 common project roadblocks. I’ve also added some tips on how to address them, so if you notice that the situations sound familiar, you can take action now to ensure that you are dealing with the chal

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9 Great Reasons to Choose a Project Management Career

Project Bliss

A. You may be wondering if a project management career is a right choice for you. You’ve likely heard a good bit about it – it’s getting more attention in recent years. But maybe you’re not quite sure if it would be a good fit. Or you may not yet know much about project management at this point. If so, don’t feel left out. I’ve been a project manager for 15 years but at first, I didn’t even know I wanted to be one.

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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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Uncertainty is non-negotiable

Musings on Project Management

"Uncertainty is an essential and nonnegotiable part of a forecast. sometimes an honest and accurate expression of the uncertainty is what has the potential to save [big things]. However, there is another reason to quantify the uncertainty carefully and explicitly. It is essential to scientific progress, especially under Bayes’s theorem." "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many.

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5 steps to regaining control over your project

Hydra

5 steps to regaining control over your project. Optimising your client-facing, billable projects is key to your Business’ success. But what happens if your project is not progressing to plan and starting to go off-course, how do you go about regaining control over your project?

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Don't Lose Sight of the Dream

PM That Works

One of the greatest things about the profession of project management is that we get to make dreams come true. You can attend one of my sessions or the Free Webinar to hear the elevator speech that every project manager MUST know! As I was participating in a mastermind session this weekend, I heard Paul Martinelli speaking into many entrepreneurs saying, "Many people have a dream, create a plan, and then fall in love with the plan.

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10 TOP Time Recording Software for Architects

TimeCamp

Time Recording Software for Architects What would our world look like without architects? Thanks to.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

It’s an inescapable fact that the causation of seriously harmful events in project management and product development includes multiple missed opportunities for multiple ordinary people, organizations, and groups to have prevented the harm entirely or to have greatly reduced it by doing ordinary things ordinarily well. Abstracted from the tagline of the Firebird Forum a Root Cause Analysis community I belong to, focused on RCA mostly in the nuclear power business, but applicable to our software

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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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How to Tackle a Tough Client Conversation | TeamGantt Blog

TeamGantt

Got a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach because your project’s hit a snag? Tough client conversations may be intimidating, but they don’t have to ruin a good relationship. These simple steps can help you keep the project peace so everyone’s happy with the outcome.

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How to increase your wellbeing as a project manager

Susanne Madsen

I have previously written about stress and I have also shared my own story about how I managed to free myself from stress. I know from the feedback I have received, and the work I do with project managers, that feeling confident and at ease is an on-going challenge. We work in hectic environments and are at times just getting by – trying to keep the client happy, staying on top of our inbox and avoiding conflict.

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Top 5 Features in the All-New SharePoint Project Management Template from BrightWork

Brightwork

Our new free SharePoint Project Management Template is here! These days, it’s all about collaborative project management. It’s about working better and more efficiently with your team to move projects forward. But managing a project isn’t easy. That’s why we have completely overhauled the free Project Management Template for SharePoint that is designed to help you keep your projects on track.

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