Tue.Jul 03, 2018

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Managing a Strategic Project Portfolio

Planview

Here is a common scenario: You spend months participating in annual planning. If you are part of the process that collects the list of projects, you are spending ridiculous hours collecting and consolidating. Then, you pass the list of projects to those who “align” those projects to strategy? The problem is that this alignment activity is just a way to justify a random list of projects, outside of your strategic project portfolio.

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Webinar – Solving Wicked Problems: What is Old is New Again

Leading Answers

My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here. (For people collecting Professional Development Units (PDUs), it also auto-records 1.25 credits for you.). The webinar reviews problem-solving through the ages and shows how agile is the rediscovery of many old approaches. Wicked problems are those that cannot be solved with traditional methods or ways of thinking.

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Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly

Planview

Here is a common scenario: You spend months participating in annual planning. If you are part of the process that collects the list of projects, you are spending ridiculous hours collecting and consolidating. Then, you pass the list of projects to those who “align” those projects to strategy? The problem is that this alignment activity is just a way to justify a random list of projects, outside of your strategic project portfolio.

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Webinar – Solving Wicked Problems: What is Old is New Again

Leading Answers

My PMXPO webinar has now been watched by > 11,000 people and received lots of positive feedback. It is hosted at ProjectManagement.com here. (For people collecting Professional Development Units (PDUs), it also auto-records 1.25 credits for you.). The webinar reviews problem-solving through the ages and shows how agile is the rediscovery of many old approaches. Wicked problems are those that cannot be solved with traditional methods or ways of thinking.

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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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How to Choose the Best Gantt Chart Creator for Your Project

Teamweek

You’re going to hear about Gantt charts a lot when discussing the project management industry. While we have mentioned some of the top Gantt chart software options available to you, we haven’t discussed why to use them and how to choose the best one. Like many other products out there, every project management software claims to be the best and most effective.

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Best Practices for Project Outline Template with an Example

Techno-PM

Project Outline Template A Project Outline document is used to pitch an idea for a project, usually to its sponsors and main stakeholders. While each project is unique, the structure of the project outline template is more or less the same and includes the main criterions of a project. The document should be limited to 2 pages, and the language needs to be clear and concise, with limited jargon.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time. - from " Birds and Frogs ," Freeman Dyson.

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SwiftEnterprise 4.2 is here!

Digite

This release brings to you whole lot of usability improvements in the area of Agile, STaRT, Dashboard and Mobile App. Now, you have a visual Card Designer to define the attributes and new action icons that should be visible on the card on Execution board. Planning your tasks using STaRT Task plans has become easier with several improvements in copy/paste of tasks and bulk assignment functionality.

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Quote of the Day

Herding Cats

Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking and bring together diverse problems from different parts of the landscape. Frogs live in the mud below and see only the flowers that grow nearby. They delight in the details of particular objects, and they solve problems one at a time. - from " Birds and Frogs ," Freeman Dyson.

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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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Wrike vs Asana – which PM tool works best for YOU?

BeeWits

When you’re making the critical decision of choosing a project management system for your team, there are two names which will come up over and over again – in this post, we will present you with a detailed review of Wrike vs Asana as seen from the eyes of a project manager and team members collaborating on a specific tasks and processes.