Planio
JULY 18, 2018
At the core of project management is a simple idea: Know what you want to build, the steps you need to take to get there, and how long each one will take to complete. Sounds easy enough right? But as any seasoned project manager will tell you, it rarely stays that way. All of a sudden deadlines change, scope creeps up, resources change, or your team gets split to work on different projects.
ProjectManager.com
JULY 18, 2018
No matter how much planning you might do, once you start a project you’re running blind. Well, at least it feels that way. You have the project all mapped out on paper, but how can you tell if what you planned is actually happening? You’ll likely find out in the execution phase, when the planning is no longer theoretical. And as the project unfolds in the real world, one of the more difficult things to do, while you’re being pulled in a hundred different directions, is to keep an eye on t
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Leading Agile
JULY 18, 2018
For businesses to succeed in today’s market, they must be able to rapidly and reliably deliver product increments to customers. More importantly, they need to be nimble and able to respond to feedback from these customers. This means a move away from the predominate way of organizing, managing, and funding work. For small companies, Agile Transformation can be straightforward—since getting alignment can be accomplished by getting everyone in a room and creating shared understanding.
Growing Agile
JULY 18, 2018
Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I’d been learning so much and this was an obvious way to put my learnings into practice and experiment with some new things. . Here’s a couple of case studies of retrospectives I facilitated and why I targeted them the way I did. —– How to say no: I was reading and learning about team impediments.
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Scoro
JULY 18, 2018
Time is one of the most valuable resources for any business. There are equally 1440 minutes per person at our disposal every day and no cutting corners on this hard cold fact. However, how we use it, makes us either highly successful or utterly stressed-out. For service-based businesses, time is THE most valuable resource. If you bill for your time, the profit of your company is directly tied to how productively your team uses their time.
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The Squad Report
JULY 18, 2018
They say it’s never too late. Never too late to go back to school, learn ice-skating, undo a mistake or make a childhood dream come true. Wish the same could be said for project failures, unmet deadlines, and lost clients. As project managers, we’ve all had a taste of at least one project gone awry. Where the damage was unfixable and repair out of question.
Teamweek
JULY 18, 2018
There always seems to be too much to do every day. It feels impossible to organize all of the necessary tasks and keep up with your responsibilities at work. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one to ever feel this way and you won’t be the last. While it can be difficult to find the time to complete everything you need to do each work day, there are numerous apps out there to help make this easier.
The Digital Project Manager
JULY 18, 2018
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TimeCamp
JULY 18, 2018
Another Wednesday, another episode of our podcast! Are you ready for another dose of great.
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
Workzone
JULY 18, 2018
Summer, summer, summertime – don’t sit back and watch your enrollment funnel unwind. I don’t know when exactly I had the light bulb moment. But I definitely had it. I knew somewhere in my head that the prospects and inquiries in our enrollment funnel at our four-year private college would be moving up a grade over the summer. I’ve paid lip service to the idea that we should keep an eye on what juniors are getting now that they are rising seniors, sophomores now that they are rising juniors
Herding Cats
JULY 18, 2018
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Sign of the Four”. When you hear a suggested fix for some problem, and there is no Root Cause identified for that problem, that is either a condition or action that is the basis of the root cause, then the suggested fix is not likely to have any impact on the observed problem.
TrustRadius Project Management
JULY 18, 2018
How many of your employees and managers know the direction the company wants to go? How well do they understand the company’s short term and long terms goals? David Witt, of Blanchard LeaderChat reported that only 14% of employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. If only 14% of employees understand the strategy and direction, the majority of employees are spending time and effort without knowing how their actions contribute to the future of the company.
Herding Cats
JULY 18, 2018
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in “The Sign of the Four”. When you hear a suggested fix for some problem, and there is no Root Cause identified for that problem, that is either a condition or action that is the basis of the root cause, then the suggested fix is not likely to have any impact on the observed problem.
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TrustRadius Project Management
JULY 18, 2018
How many of your employees and managers know the direction the company wants to go? How well do they understand the company’s short term and long terms goals? David Witt, of Blanchard LeaderChat reported that only 14% of employees have a good understanding of their company’s strategy and direction. If only 14% of employees understand the strategy and direction, the majority of employees are spending time and effort without knowing how their actions contribute to the future of the company.
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