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RAID in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ever wondered what RAID is all about in project management? You’ll hear project managers talking about their RAID logs, or updating the RAID, but what does it all mean? In this article, we look at everything RAID. There’s also a video interview with risk expert Keith Rickman – scroll down for that. What Does RAID Stand For in Project Management?

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How to Create a Cause and Effect Diagram

Project Risk Coach

Do you have problems? Projects running behind schedule? Cycle time for a business process increasing? Sales down? People continuing to live in silos? Let's discuss a simple but powerful tool for solving problems - the Cause and Effect Diagram (alias Fishbone Diagram). Steps to Create a Cause and Effect Diagram Identify and clarify the problem. State the problem objectively.

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What’s the Real Value of Project Management?

ProjectManager.com

Project management has real value, but don’t take our word for it. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you why and explains how you can convince naysayers who question the value of project management and project managers. Here’s a screenshot of the whiteboard for your reference! In Review – What’s the Real Value of Project Management? Jennifer began by looking at the word value.

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10 Online Collaboration Tools To Boost Your Project’s Efficiency

The Digital Project Manager

Working with a remote team? Collaboration tools are vital in today’s world of online work. This expert review compares 10 of the best collaboration tools, explaining their pros & cons, pricing, features, integrations, and more. The post 10 Online Collaboration Tools To Boost Your Project’s Efficiency appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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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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Validation and Verification -- in Agile? Really?

Musings on Project Management

Validation and Verification: traditionalists know these ideas well. Do they still have relevance in the Agile space? My opinion: Yes! Traditional V-and-V: the way it is Traditional projects rely on validation and verification (V-and-V) for end-to-end auditing of requirements: Validation: the requirements ‘deck’ is validated for completeness and accuracy.

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Hybrid Knowledge: Expansion and Contraction

Leading Answers

Expansion and Contraction. Project management requires the combination of technical skills, people skills and industry-specific knowledge. It is a true hybrid environment. This knowledge and its application also forms a beautiful paradox. Our quest to gain skills is never complete and always expanding, but the most effective tools are usually the simplest.

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How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse with PRINCE2®

Prince2

It’s the spookiest time of year and, naturally, as an accredited training organisation, we thought it was only appropriate that we had a little think about zombies. Hey now, bear with us here – there’s method to our madness or, at least, a methodology…. A zombie apocalypse epitomises every project manager’s nightmare – no clear plan (other than, y’know… not dying), no clear budget, scope or even visibility on how many team members will turn up each day, and don’t even get us started on the ever-

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How to Exploit Junior Project Manager Interview Questions

PM Basics

Junior Project Manager interview questions are tricky in many senses. From one side, you need to show an understanding of Project Management. From another – you must demonstrate practical skills relevant to the role. In fact, you have none of that in the beginning. I interviewed junior project managers more than any other PMs. Today, I want to share what an interviewing project manager wants to hear.

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Human Resource Management System

WorkOtter

Top Human Resource Management System HRMS, HRIS and HCM Software for any Project Solution A Human Resource management system, also known as HRMS or HRIS which stands for Human Resource Information Software, is a software application that combines processes, and a number of systems of human resources functions, among which includes Payroll, Recruiting, training, and administrative activities, for […].

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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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Surviving the Zombie PMO Apocalypse

Planview

The PMO is under fire … but why? Perhaps the business is evolving and the focus of the PMO has shifted. Is digital transformation and the need to drive growth strategies across the organization creating complexity? Can the PMO handle it, or is it dangerously slow in responding to change and delivering business value? If your team is feeling feverish and project and programs are in poor health, beware!

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How to Create a Better Work Schedule for Your Team

Teamweek

Let’s be real, work schedules can be a drag. Whether you have a small team, or a massive team, there are a lot of factors you have to consider when making a work schedule. You have to consider the needs of each member of the team, as well as the project deadline. Don’t let this frighten you, though! We all strive for a perfect work schedule, so let’s go over a few ways you might be able to improve your schedule.

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4 Tips to a Better Project Status Meeting – and 3 Guidelines You’ve Forgotten

ProProject Manager

Love your meetings! For many projects, status meetings are a given, mostly because that’s how projects are run in most companies. So, if your company culture mandates status meetings, then let’s make those meetings the best use of time possible. Let’s assume that you already have a basic understanding of how a good meeting is run. You know you should have an agenda, only invite the relevant folks, prepare for the meeting, keep to time, and turn off technology.

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DPM Podcast: Controlling (Scope) Creeps (With Suze Haworth)

The Digital Project Manager

The post DPM Podcast: Controlling (Scope) Creeps (With Suze Haworth) appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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Acclaim Projects Helps Deliver Innovation Projects on Time and on Budget

This large intercity transportation company for people and freight employs 100+ IT employees and contractors across North America and Europe and spends $10MM annually for approximately 50 inflight projects. The company needed the right financial tools to budget for innovation initiatives and real-time information on spending and forecasting. This transportation company turned to Acclaim Projects by Sopheon to help deliver projects on time and within budget.

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Use Mob Programming to Maximize your Learning

Scrum.org

In every Scrum.org Professional Scrum Development class, we touch upon both technical and collaboration practices to help improve the development teams explore new options. In a recent class we had two teams that, after two sprints, hadn't been able to deliver any "Done" increment to show at the Sprint Review. They were plagued by all kinds of issues, merge conflicts, refactoring gone bad, lack of automated tests and everything else that happens in real life.

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Unit Testing Shell Scripts:Part Four

Leading Agile

So far, in this series of posts on unit testing shell scripts, we’ve covered several tools for unit testing scripts written in common *nix shell languages like bash, korn, and zsh. The same concepts and methods apply to any shell. The tools covered so far are general-purpose test frameworks for shell languages on *nix systems: shunit2, BATS, zunit, bash-spec, and korn-spec.

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Looking for Employee Hour Tracking Software? Here Are Top 7!

TimeCamp

Which Employee Hour Tracking Software Should You Use? There are many reasons for which organizations.