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Why Projects Succeed or Fail

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Understanding project failure is the first step to putting it right. Let’s explore why businesses are so slow to learn the lessons of the past and what you can do to boost your chances of project success. Every researcher, management guru and project manager has their own view on why projects fail. Project failure – and preventing it – has been the subject of countless academic studies, surveys and books over the years.

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Build A PMO You Can Be Proud Of

Project Risk Coach

Some Project Management Offices (PMOs) never get off the ground. I've seen others that are started and year or so later die a slow painful death. So, how can you build a PMO you can be proud of, one that thrives? Why Are There So Many Troubled PMOs? No one intends to build an impotent PMO, but it happens. The PMO lacks power and effectiveness. Therefore, people see the PMO as a hindrance, not an enabler.

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Getting to Yes: How to Negotiate Using the Harvard Principle

Inloox

Not everyone is born with great negotiation skills, but everyone can learn to negotiate correctly and fairly. The so-called "Harvard principle" can help you overcome conflicts of interest with your negotiating partner and come to a solution with mutual benefits. In this blog post we present the basics of this conflict management method and explain how to achieve a "win-win situation" Introduction to the Harvard Concept The Harvard principle is considered one of the most effec

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Leadership Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Leadership is a combination of innate and learned traits. That’s why great leaders are always pushing themselves to continuously grow. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you three key leadership building activities that will help you become a better leader. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – Leadership Building Activities.

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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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A Complete List Of The Best PPM Tools

The Digital Project Manager

Compare the best PPM tools by pricing, features, integrations, and pros & cons in this expert project management review. Project portfolio management software helps you manage resources & risks and leverage cross-project data for more strategic high-level decisions. The post A Complete List Of The Best PPM Tools appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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The C word in the Scrum Guide

Scrum.org

­­ I have an important favor to ask to Scrum practitioners who are asking their team to commit themselves to their sprint backlog at sprint planning. If you do so, please stop. The Scrum Guide doesn’t mention committing to work planned at sprint planning. Have a look. Please. Do a “Find” on the word commit (or commitment). It is not mentioned in the sprint planning section.

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The 11 Best Project Management Certifications to Consider in 2019

Teamweek

A certificate in project management is a great way to sharpen your skills and bring valuable credentials to your employer, while also increasing your own earning power in the process. The project management industry is growing rapidly, with many opportunities for advancement. The skills you learn by getting a project management certification will help you in nearly any business or management position.

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Guest Post: Dhaval Panchal on Satir Change Model

Stepping Into Project Management

This is a guest post by Dhaval Panchal an e xperienced executive, Agile Coach, and Organization Design consultant. He is also the founder of Evolve Agility, a Texas based coaching and training consultancy , read more about him here. The Satir Change model applies to individuals as well as systems of individuals. It is one of the cornerstones of the family therapist Virginia Satir’s work on how change takes place.

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The CIO's Contribution to Project Failure

Herding Cats

IT project failure starts with demanding the project maintain its budget and delivery times in the absence of a Plan to go along with the Schedule of the work. Failure starts with the lack of an adequate description of what capabilities are needed for the business to reap the benefits of the IT project. Missing capabilities and a credible plan prevent the schedule from being credible.

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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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Using Scrum to Help with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Part One

Scrum.org

I first met Sally,and then later Francis her husband, at a local user group - Agile in Leeds , where Sally delivered a fantastic 10 minute talk on how she implemented Scrum to help Francis with ADHD. . It blew my mind then and it still does now. Taking a framework which I have seen work multiple times and to use it in the most complex of all situations - Home life and Marriage.

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part One

Leading Agile

In the 1960s, it was considered a baseline good practice in software engineering to test your code as you wrote it. The pioneers of software development in that era were proponents of various levels of testing; some advocated “unit” testing and some didn’t, but all recognized the importance of testing code. Executable tests may have first been introduced by Margaret Hamilton on the Apollo project in the mid-1960s, where she originated a type of executable checking that we now c

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How to Make Your Employees Actually Fill in Timesheets

TimeCamp

Let’s Talk About Timesheets “I love timesheets!” said no one ever. Because filling them is.

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PMI ACP Exam Questions: Review Of Best 4 Simulator For Sample Tests

PM by PM

You might be looking for PMI ACP exam questions. You may want to know about the best simulator for PMI ACP sample practice tests. In this article, you will find the review and comparison of the top online simulators and practice exams. Sample mock tests are an important ingredients for success in any credential exam. […]. The post PMI ACP Exam Questions: Review Of Best 4 Simulator For Sample Tests appeared first on PM-by-PM.

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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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Scrum and universal truths [update 2018]

Gunther Verheyen

In 2010, the principal co-creators of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, agreed on the first version of the Scrum Guide , thereby creating the official BOK (body of knowledge) for Scrum. A few small, functional updates have been released since then. There have been no drastic changes to the core definition of Scrum. The updates are attempts to reduce complexity or have clearer terminology.

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How One Global PMO Team Member Solved the Spreadsheet Challenge

Planview

Working out of spreadsheets can make life stressful—unnecessarily so. This is only compounded when teams are also spread out across departments and geographic locations. Take Giorgos for instance. As a global PMO team member for the world’s leading aviation trade organization, his work days are often extremely stressful. Not only must he help monitor work across three continents and 12-time zones, but he must ultimately manage a portfolio of about 45 projects per year, all while operating out of

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