Inloox

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Germany is known as the industrial nation with the 99.9% solution. We are expected to deliver a perfect engineering performance, but real innovation? You'd rather look for it in Silicon Valley. However, we all want to become faster - more agile and ready to react to our complex environment at any time. We want products to reach the market faster and customer problems to be solved more quickly.

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iZenBridge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A project manager and the team have a high reliance on delivering a successful project. The team has to explore risk factors that may impact the project. For these risks, effective responses are a necessity. Risk mitigation and contingency response planning are one of them. But, it confuses many for the underlying differences. In this blog, I am addressing these response strategies and the difference between mitigation and contingency plan.

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Leading Answers

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Organizational agility is the ability of an enterprise to change direction, realign and succeed in volatile, uncertain business environments. It requires sensing emerging trends and actively listening to customer requests, then acting on this information and making the changes required to position the organization for where it needs to be in the future.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cost management is the process by which one plans and manages the budget of a business or project. In the case of a project, it helps the project manager estimate what the project will cost and set in place controls by which they can reduce the chance of the project going over budget. Cost Management Overview. The cost management process begins in the planning phase of the project, where the costs are approved by executives before being implemented.

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Project Cost Estimate Budget Governance 365

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Watch Part 1 here. Watch Part 2 here. Watch Part 3 here. Transcript. Hello, I’m Elizabeth Harrin, from the blog, A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, and over the past 3 videos I’ve been sharing insights to help you grow as a project manager and get your work done with more confidence and less stress. In this video I’m going to share everything you need to know about Project Management Rebels and how it can help you show up to work more prepared and better equipped to deal with all the random t

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Watch Part 1 here. Watch Part 2 here. Video begins: Hello, welcome back to video 3 of my training series, 2020 Project Management. My name is Elizabeth Harrin, founder of Project Management Rebels and the blog, A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, and I’m delighted to be back here with you. In this video I’m going to share everything you need to know about making a strategic contribution in your business.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2019

TL; DR: Scrum Master Anti-Patterns. Scrum Master anti-patterns: The reasons why Scrum Masters violate the spirit of the Scrum Guide are multi-faceted. They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team.

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Teamweek

DECEMBER 4, 2019

How often do you look back at the last few months and wonder where the time has gone? What did you actually get done? It feels like you were just running around, dealing with one fire after another, but the list of ideas you wanted to implement is still just that– a list. The disappointment settles in as you realize, you’ve yet again failed to fulfill the majority of your quarterly plans. .

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TrustRadius Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Our future as we know it not only should be accessible, but will be accessible. Humanity will not make gains without investing in the development and improvement of tools that provide users with disabilities to fully utilize them. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, employees with disabilities make up 6% of the American labor force. As a millennial with disabilities working in tech, I spend a lot of time thinking about how the software I use at work every day could be improved for my peers and

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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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Online PM Courses

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Shift Happens! Things go wrong. So, as a project manager, you need to be able to manage risks. Here, I offer you 5 Tips for great risk management. The post Risk Management – 5 Tips to do it right | Video appeared first on OnlinePMCourses.

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Risk Management Risk 60

Velociteach

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Managers and project managers are often told that “engaging stakeholders” is critical to success. However, they rarely receive guidance on what it means or how to “engage your stakeholders.” It is similar to when I started practicing yoga, the teacher told us to “release our sacrum.” I had no idea that I had a sacrum, […] The post Engage Your Stakeholders appeared first on PMP Certification Exam Prep & Training - Velociteach.

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Lynne Cazaly

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This week I've posted on 4 things: How much INFORMATION is enough. How much THINKING is enough. How much WORK is enough. How many REVISIONS are enough. Enough. It means 'adequate, sufficient, ample'. Our research, thinking, working and revisions can be either a productivity winner. or a productivity killer. When we spend more than enough time researching, more than enough time thinking, and then overworking and reworking, we need to pause, stop, and understand: - what we are doing, and. - why we

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GanttPRO Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Managers set the pace and tone of work for the rest of the team. It’s an essential part of the job role and there’s no way of getting around it. […]. The post How to Set Goals to Skyrocket Your Managerial Career first appeared on GanttPRO.

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Lynne Cazaly

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A phrase often heard in the startup world and a mantra of entrepreneurs striving to make forward progress is 'start before you’re ready'. It’s a motto that can apply to many of us. OK not surgeons or pilots! Yet we can spend (waste?) a lot of time waiting for the ‘right’ time, or waiting until we ‘feel right’ or for the right path to appear.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Have you ever heard a child give good news? It can be almost comical. They’re really excited. They trip over words. Lots of hand motions. Smiles galore. This is the best day ever! Conversely, have you heard them give bad news? They first try to hide it from you. They’ll try to fix it on their own. Sometimes they’ll get help from their little friends or siblings.

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GanttPRO Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Improper goal setting can jeopardize your department and have the opposite effect on employees that you want. Recent studies show that only fourteen percent of employees have a good understanding […].

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Planio

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What makes a truly great project manager? Is it being organized? Driven and motivated? A great communicator? All of the above and more. There’s no single project management skill that’s more important than the others because, at its core, project management isn’t a single job. At best, you could say that project management is a combination of several not-so-easy jobs done concurrently.

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Underperforming Technical Team 2019 Software Review Technical Review 176

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You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Lynne Cazaly

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Reworking, editing, checking, changing. How long do we spend working on the next version? Documents, reports and presentations travel up and down a company's hierarchy to be changed, edited, revised, and approved. Changes are made but it’s still not sent out or shared. It’s time for another round of changes. And another round. Up and down it goes.

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GanttPRO Project Management

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Improper goal setting can jeopardize your department and have the opposite effect on employees that you want.

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MPUG

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Dale Howard’s Understanding the Cost Model in Microsoft Project webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for the purposes of self-paced learning, searching for specific information, and/or performing a quick review of webinar content.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What is an Experimenter? Sir Isaac Newton , Louis Pasteur , Marie Curie , Albert Einstein , and Nikola Tesla ; this woman and these gentlemen are considered to be some of the greatest scientists of all time. If it wasn’t for people like Nikola Telsa, then maybe you wouldn’t have been able to read this article and maybe we wouldn’t have written it in the first place.

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Innovation 2019 SCRUM Agile 49

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