Tue.Mar 28, 2017

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How To Schedule Resources In A Way That It Would Boost Productivity

Ganttic

Planning resources can often mean that you are building a pretty tight schedule for your employees. Even more so if you are planning concurrent tasks while adjusting the utilization of each of them. There are more tips for boosting productivity out there than one could count. But how does something as simple as scheduling resources with a resource planning tool affect productivity?

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How Freelancers Master Time Management

Redbooth

To people who are regular employees of a business, the term “freelancer” often conjures up images of sitting on the beach with a laptop, Ray-Bans perched on your nose, and a Mai-Tai in hand. But keep that image to yourself if you’re talking to a real freelancer, or at least wait until they aren’t eating or drinking anything. Truth is, freelancers can end up being a slave to time and clients without good time management.

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Principles, Processes, and Practices of Project Success

Herding Cats

In the project management world, everyone is selling something to solve some problem. This includes product vendors, consulting firms, and internal providers. I'm on the internal provider side most of the time. Other times, I on the consulting firm acting as an internal provider. I not on the vendor side. Over the years (30 something years) I come to understand and write about the Principles, Processes, and Practices of project success in a wide variety of domains.

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6 Ways to Improve Project Communication [Infographic]

Brightwork

Communication can make or break your project. Research conducted by the Project Management Institute (PMI) found that ineffective communication was the main contributor to project failure in one-third of the time, and had a negative impact on project success more than half the time. Check out our infographic for six handy tips to improve project communication.

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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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Could Emotional Intelligence Be The Most Impactful Leadership Skill?

The Digital Project Manager

As project managers, we want to be better leaders. Discover these real-life emotional intelligence examples to help you become a better and more impactful leader. The post Could Emotional Intelligence Be The Most Impactful Leadership Skill? appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Embracing Uncertainty in Software Projects

LiquidPlanner

How long will it take? A seemingly simple question that can become a project management nightmare to manage. If you don’t give an answer, you’re viewed as incompetent and unable to estimate. (How could you NOT know? After all, you’re the project manager!) If you give a qualified answer, you risk being held to that original date despite the need to analyze requirements further, discuss with vendors and do proper project planning.