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Learn From 5 Common Project Red Flags How To Build Trust In Your Client Relationship

The Digital Project Manager

I’ll never forget the time I unknowingly delayed a project by months, caused my client unneeded stress, and threw a wrench in our launch plan. The post Learn From 5 Common Project Red Flags How To Build Trust In Your Client Relationship appeared first on The Digital Project Manager.

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4 Effective Ways to Optimize Workload among Project Teams

Celoxis

A good project manager understands this well. Assigning too many tasks would overwhelm and overwork team members while assigning too little is a waste of time and resources. Ensuring a good balance is key to good team member morale and project succes.

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Agile Project Management Methods

Herding Cats

There is a lot of unsubstantiated claims going around about how agile should or should not be applied. How estimates are or are not needed. How the team should or should not be managed. From the point of view of Software Intensive System of Systems, here's how we've learned to manage development using Agile. These projects are NOT de-minimus, they are mission critical.

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How 6 Real Managers Get A Work/Life Balance

Rebel’s Guide to PM

6 real project managers share their tips for getting a work/life balance. Read on to find out how you can use their tips to get more time, delegate more effectively and reframe your priorities to do more of what matters. No related posts.

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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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Critical Path Method (CPM)

ActiveCollab

CPM (Critical Path Method) is a mathematical algorithm that helps you analyze, plan, and schedule complex projects. Each project consists of a number of tasks and activities that are interconnected and essential for project’s success. The more complex the project gets, the more demanding the project management is. That’s where CPM comes in hand. At its core, CPM is a powerful tool that allows you to identify the longest path of planned tasks necessary to meet the deadlines and identify the early

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Critical Path Method (CPM)

ActiveCollab

CPM (Critical Path Method) is a mathematical algorithm that helps you analyze, plan, and schedule complex projects. Each project consists of a number of tasks and activities that are interconnected and essential for project’s success. The more complex the project gets, the more demanding the project management is. That’s where CPM comes in hand. At its core, CPM is a powerful tool that allows you to identify the longest path of planned tasks necessary to meet the deadlines and identify the early

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13 Tips to Deliver Exceptional Presentations

Brightwork

As a teenager, I was completely petrified of public speaking, particularly in class. If a teacher asked me a question or picked me to read aloud from a textbook, I would just freeze and claim a sore throat! At one point, I asked teachers to skip me; it was always a relief when they remembered. Somewhere along the way, I conquered this fear. I have delivered academic conference papers, tutored in universities, held workshops with senior management, participated in several proposal pitches, and te

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22 Free and Open Source Data Visualization Tools to Grow Your Business

GanttPRO Project Management

What’s the power of data visualizations?

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What Type of Collaborator are You?

Redbooth

A big part of effective collaboration is not only knowing how you like to communicate and work but also knowing the styles of the people you are working along side. Here at Amium we live and breath collaboration as it’s the pillar of our product. So we set out to determine if there’s a common theme to collaboration styles and whether or not certain collaboration types work better together than others.

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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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6 Creative Agency Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

Function Point

If popular storytelling podcasts are like a modern cross between campfire stories and ye olde radio shows, marketing, business and agency focused podcasts are the fireside chat of the digital era. Staying competitive in creative industries means always learning and looking for new ways to approach your work. Podcasts are the perfect way to dim the open-office hum and absorb an extra dose of information and creativity from the brightest minds in the industry.

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The Case for Multiple Project Management Methodologies

LiquidPlanner

A multiple-methodology approach to project management may lead to happier project teams, according to a new report by LiquidPlanner. The 2017 State of Project Management in Manufacturing report found that 74 percent of the respondents who said they were highly satisfied with their existing project management methodology actually used a combination of methodologies.

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6 Creative Agency Podcasts You Should Be Listening To

Function Point

If popular storytelling podcasts are like a modern cross between campfire stories and ye olde radio shows, marketing, business and agency focused podcasts are the fireside chat of the digital era. Staying competitive in creative industries means always learning and looking for new ways to approach your work. Podcasts are the perfect way to dim the open-office hum and absorb an extra dose of information and creativity from the brightest minds in the industry.

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How To Start Your Own Business?

TimeCamp

If sometimes you are feeling like your work is not for you. Like you can do something more with the experience and the ideas you have. Maybe become your own boss? Organize the daily schedule by yourself and be the one who negotiates with the clients, so you always know exactly what they want, not what your manager want you to do. Well, perhaps it’s the right time to start your own business?

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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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Types of Teams

ActiveCollab

Teams can be divided in four main groups: project teams, self-managed teams, virtual teams, and operational teams. What type of team you have depends its purpose, location, and organizational structure. Each type of team comes with its unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In order to fully utilize your team, you first need to understand where each type of teams works the best.

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Types of Teams

ActiveCollab

Teams can be divided in four main groups: project teams, self-managed teams, virtual teams, and operational teams. What type of team you have depends its purpose, location, and organizational structure. Each type of team comes with its unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In order to fully utilize your team, you first need to understand where each type of teams works the best.

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Myths Busted: The 6 Biggest Productivity Lies We Tell Ourselves

Inloox

1. Sleep is for the weak and only the early bird catches the worm We often read about how successful CEOs wake up very early and are extremely productive even though they only get 4 hours of sleep – or it’s even suggested they are productive because they only sleep four hours a day. But this is the exception, not the norm. Every person is different and just because a few can function with very little sleep, for a lot of people getting at least 6-8 hours of sleep is essential.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

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.