Mon.Jan 29, 2018

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11 Tricks to Help You Work Faster

Project Bliss

Does work always take longer than you expect it will? You make a commitment or plan a task, and it always takes twice as long as you thought it would? I became more aware of this when I had a daughter. Just getting out the door in the morning suddenly took ten times longer than before. But I’ve also noticed this is the case with many other things.

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Secret Strategies to Manage Multiple Projects

Online PM Courses

As your experience as a Project Manager grows, you will be increasingly called upon to manage multiple projects. And this does not just apply to full time Project managers… Over the years, I have been asked about this by a lot of managers and professionals. They have been tasked with two or more projects to manage, on top of their day-to-day job.

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Scrum and Kanban Revisited

Digite

Introduction. More and more Agile teams have started to adopt Kanban as a way to improve beyond what Scrum enabled them to do, as also to address some of the challenges that Scrum presented them with. As a result, many people have attempted to compare and contrast Scrum and Kanban in a variety of “Scrum vs. Kanban” sessions in conferences, webinars and online posts.

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What is Lean Project Management? Its Definition, Principles, and Methodology

GanttPRO Project Management

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees. No one and nothing will secure your plans from poor […].

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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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Value First, Requires Margin and Contingency

Herding Cats

There's a popular notion in Agile that says Focus on Value. The principles of microeconomics of decision making in the presence of uncertainty mandates you make estimates of how to achieve that Value in terms of cost and schedule, those three (and all) variables are random variables, usually driven by a stochastic process. This process can be stationary (unchanging distribution) or non-stationary (a changing distribution function).

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Celoxis Scores Great User Experience Distinction FOR fIELD from Software Experts

Celoxis

The experts from B2B software directory CompareCamp performed a thorough analysis of Celoxis, examining all aspects of our product — from main functionalities and collaboration features to integrations and ease of use. Celoxis generated highly positive remarks, thus their experts awarded us their Great User Experience and Rising Star awards.

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A Quick Guide To Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

The Digital Project Manager

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a fancy term to describe how we manage the often-confusing mix of interrelated, dependent, and connected projects. PPM considers the. The post A Quick Guide To Project Portfolio Management (PPM) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The 3 Ds for Managing Distractions!

Brightwork

We have found that the folks who find themselves easily distracted are the ones who have not set goals, have not organized their schedule to live their lives on purpose. Below is a summary diagram of our 5 step approach to time management. You’ll see you should be very deliberate in setting your personal and professional goals, before planning out your week to achieve these goals – they cannot happen by accident!

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Time Allocation Software

TimeCamp

What Is Time Allocation Software? Time allocation software is an enormously helpful tool, especially.

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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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What is Lean Project Management? Its Definition, Principles, and Methodology

GanttPRO Project Management

It’s difficult to find a project where no problems occur. There will always be issues with tasks, deadlines, and assignees.

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The 3 Ds for Managing Distractions!

Brightwork

We have found that the folks who find themselves easily distracted are the ones who have not set goals, have not organized their schedule to live their lives on purpose. Below is a summary diagram of our 5 step approach to time management. You’ll see you should be very deliberate in setting your personal and professional goals, before planning out your week to achieve these goals – they cannot happen by accident!

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How to Motivate Your Team: Collective and Individual Incentives

Inloox

Project managers should always make sure that the team works well together, because you shouldn’t underestimate the power of the sense of unity that develops when teams work well together. Behavioral studies have found that. ". “[s]ome evidence points to humans being innately cooperative. Studies show that in the first year of life, infants exhibit empathy toward others in distress.

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7 Benefits of Keeping a Project Journal

Project Risk Coach

Perhaps you are like me. You have lots of thoughts darting around in your mind. If you are looking for a way to sort and organize your thoughts, let’s look at the benefits of keeping a project journal. Project managers are busy people, often managing multiple projects. During the course of a day, you may encounter all kinds of things–schedule conflicts, people issues, poor leadership by your sponsors, too many meetings, and scope creep, to name a few.

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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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How to Stay on Top of Technology in Business

TimeCamp

Technology in Business Without a doubt, we can say that today’s world is the.

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Productivity Articles: Do More With Less! 29/1/18

TimeCamp

Another week comes with the most popular from our roundups. Make yourself comfortable and read.

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