Thu.Dec 14, 2017

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Project Management Lessons from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

LiquidPlanner

Between Thanksgiving and the Christmas holiday, my family and I have a few traditions. One of them is to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Hidden amongst the classic scenes that only John Hughes could write, there are a few project management lessons worth your consideration. Here are five of them: Lesson #1: Every project needs quality assurance.

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Podcast: Jen Frahm – The roadies and rockstars of change management

Fix my Project Chaos

The roadies and rockstars of change management, with Jen Frahm Dr Jen Frahm (PhD Management) is the founder of Conversations of Change and a world-leading organisational change expert. She has worked in culture change, process change, digital transformation, legislative change, mergers and acquisitions and technology/systems change for a wide range of industries.

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What Is a Good and Inexpensive Way to Track Employee Hours?

TimeCamp

Why Is Time Tracking Important In Project Management? Tracking employee hours has become popular over the last years. Respectively, the number of time tracking software’s users is consistently increasing. Many employees are afraid of tracking their work hours as there exists a belief that they are spied on. However, once the time tracking is implemented in the proper way, tracking employee hours turns out to be a good solution.

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6 Key Features Your Workflow Management System Needs to Have

Function Point

6 Key Features Your Workflow Management System Needs to Have. Your workflow management systems is the backbone of your agency’s productivity. They help to streamline and automate your agency’s tasks, from the simple and repetitive to the creative and complex, and make your processes easier, faster and more transparent. While most creative projects have complex process overlaps and approval processes, your workflow management system should help reduce redundant email chains, improve productivity

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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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PMO Charter Template

Techno-PM

What is a PMO Charter? A PMO Charter is one of the most important documents in the life of a Project Management Office. Project charters formally recognize the existence of projects in an organization, the PMO Charter legitimizes the existence of the PMO before the business. PMO Charter It is its organizational mandate which justifies why the PMO is being created, provides a high-level description of what the PMO is set to achieve and what its role will be and, most importantly, it empowers the

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QA Please and Thank you!

The Digital Project Manager

I work for an agency that produces client marketing sites. There is heavy involvement from DPMs during the design, architecture and content phases – but as projects move into the development phase their involvement starts to decrease. When the site is done being developed, it goes through an internal review and QA process where the DPMs are hands-off and expect other team members to manage the backlog and prioritization.

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How to use knowledge management to future-proof your organisation

Hydra

How to use knowledge management to future-proof your organisation. By Paul Whiffen , Hartfield KM Consulting.

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10 Reasons Projects Fail: Lessons from the Death Star

Wrike

Here I am. Sitting in a dingy cantina on some dusty backwater planet, the remnants of the Empire scattered to the far corners of the galaxy while some rebel scum occupies the capital on Coruscant. Where did it all go wrong? If you ask me, it comes down to the Death Star projects. I had friends on those Death Stars — I only barely got off the first one alive myself — and I’ve put a lot of thought into this.

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5 Collaboration Trends You Will See in Project Management During 2018

Brightwork

In the next year, we’re going to see fundamental shifts in collaboration. As networks and ecosystems replace organizational hierarchies, the traditional question “who do you work for?” has been replaced by “who do you work with?” Moreover, the continuous diffusion of innovative technologies throughout the working landscape has accelerated and governed this shift.

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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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Global trends in talent management, according to Deloitte and McKinsey

Runrun.it

Global trends in talent management are reshaping the workplace, the workforce, and work itself. After years of struggling to drive the engagement and retention of high-level professionals, improve leadership and build a meaningful culture, corporations have perceived the need to redesign their organizational models. To help companies and their leaders understand these changes, large consulting […].