LiquidPlanner

MAY 11, 2017

In manufacturing, time is money. Every delay, machinery breakdown, and defective product adds up and, ultimately, hurts the bottom line. But following structured project management methods can help companies reduce delays, stay on budget, and deliver quality products. To better understand how manufacturers practice project management, we surveyed more than 100 executives, engineers, and project managers, resulting in the 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report.

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Green Project Management

MAY 11, 2017

In this installment of our series on the SDGs, we look at #13 of 17, Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. I am going to approach this SDG a bit different from the others in the series because this is a heavily debated topic. First. Climate Change is real. Few debate […]. The post Sustainable Development Goal #13 of 17 and Project Management, Climate Action. appeared first on Delivering a better world, one project at a time.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. This skill was an extension of the signal processing work I did as a grad student looking for information in the data stream of a particle accelerator. The design of the code was straight forward.

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TimeCamp

MAY 11, 2017

Task management is one of the key issues disconcerting those who wish to manage their business successfully, now and in the future. ‘What should be done first?’; “Who ought to work on it?”, and so on – those questions are only a few examples of tasks one has to handle whether he likes it or not. […].

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The Digital Project Manager

MAY 11, 2017

Life as a project manager can be tough; if anyone needs inspiration to keep going with leading our projects and teams, it’s us. When you find. The post 130 Inspiring Project Management Quotes appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Project Insight

MAY 11, 2017

The formal description of Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own, and other peopl.

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EarthPM

MAY 11, 2017

(This is from my Projects@Work blog post series. Read the entire post HERE.). There’s a recent story in the news about waxworms. Several outlets covered it but I like this coverage from ABC (Australia). I love how the story opens: “Scientist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini picked parasitic wax worms from the honeycomb of her beehives and left them sitting in a plastic bag.

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Brightwork

MAY 11, 2017

Understanding who is responsibile for certain tasks and duties is essential for the success of any project. If these aren’t clearly defined, would anything ever be completed? One relatively straightforward model that can be used to clearly identify roles and responsibilities is the RACI Matrix. RACI is an acronym for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.

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EarthPM

MAY 11, 2017

This is a bit of a scary sequel to The Promise of the Waxworm, the prior blog post in a series of 2. In my previous post ( The Promise of the Waxworm ) I discussed some of the ideas of secondary risk , applied lightly to concepts of sustainability and focused more on the definition of secondary and residual risk. Consider this post a sequel. In this post, I’d like to tie the concept a little more tightly to climate change to illustrate a rather extreme form of secondary risk which almost sound

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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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