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9 Essential Excel Spreadsheets for Tracking Tasks, Costs and Time

ProjectManager.com

Your work isn’t going according to plan. Nobody has enough time or money to do their tasks. The best you can hope for is to finish them quickly, saving as much time and costs as possible. If you’re in this spot, then you may seek out some task, cost and time tracking templates for Excel. We’ve collected ProjectManager’s 9 best Excel spreadsheets for tracking that you can download and use for free.

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The 9 Biggest Project Management Trends in 2022

Inloox

Content. Remote work & leadership. Bigger focus on soft skills. Professionalization of project management & increasing demand for project managers. Agile is here to stay. Value and principle-based perspective. AI, machine learning & automation. Cloud as the standard. Lifelong learning & knowledge management. Sustainability & social responsibility. 1.

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7 Best PRINCE2 Books for 2022 (Including PRINCE2 Agile Books)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management. The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and understand. When I did my Foundation and Practitioner exams, I only used the two official PRINCE2 handbooks: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2. and the partner b

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What Is Agile Velocity & Why Should You Care About It in 2022

nTask

One of the best things about the Agile Methodology and the core reason for its popularity in today’s market is its ability to deliver and reiterate. What we mean by that is that you are using the methodology to not build an entire system in one go, instead you deliver a system or a product that is able to satisfy the customer in the shortest development time possible, so that you can continue to develop incrementally.

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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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How Ford Transformed Into a Product Driven Organization

Leading Agile

Ford currently has over 200K employees, spread out across 90 plants and facilities worldwide. So, getting everyone to adapt to an ever-changing marketplace and Transform themselves into a product-driven organization is no easy task. So how did the U.S’s second-largest automaker with 200K+ employees Transform into a product-driven organization? Check out this video where Ford Motor Company Transformation leader, Amy Palazzolo, shares highlights of the Ford journey using Agile to evolve and focus

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How to streamline communication between remote teams?

PM Times

Mike Krzyzewski, an American basketball coach, rightly says, “Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication.” Indeed, effective communication is one of the cornerstones of a company’s success. Be it for getting an executive buy-in, conveying regular updates to stakeholders, or managing teams, communication plays a critical role in every facet of the business landscape.

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TeamGantt vs Asana – Which one is better for you in 2022?

nTask

The project management marketplace is a jungle right now. There are different applications being shaped into existence every day, and for the most part, that is a good thing. But for people that have no clue about project management or task management that is a game of Russian roulette that they can’t win. If you are in the same position and don’t know which one of the applications you should choose from this oceanic marketplace, then you came to the right place.

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How to Prevent a Bad Hire: 3 Tricks To Reduce Hiring Risk

Teamweek

Put ten recruiters in a room and ask them their worst nightmare. We’d bet a fair few would say it’s making a hire that turns out to be rubbish. Because nothing hurts more than finding out your rockstar candidate was actually a bad hire. And with nearly three-quarters of companies ( 74% ) falling foul to bad hires, it’s a problem we want to help solve.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Kanban Ceremonies: What Are They & How To Run Them?

nTask

Time is one of the most important assets that you can have in your arsenal as a project manager or a product owner. No matter how important the task is if it is not executed according to the time allocated to it at the start of the project. In project management , time is tracked and managed by the team members of the development team, and if they are not capable of handling it, then your whole operation is doomed.

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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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Consultancy Firms to Ramp Up Automation in 2022

Scoro

Organizations in all sectors are becoming ‘digital-first’ in response to recent economic and cultural challenges. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report , 50% of all businesses are planning to increase the automation of repetitive tasks. As part of this, automation is set to become a key internal focus for consultancy businesses in 2022, so they need to start considering the types of solutions available.