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What I’m Reading [October 2016]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I haven’t done one of these posts for a while, and there has actually been a shift in my reading habits, which is a good thing! I’m reading more on the train commuting and doing less busywork like Facebook, other social media and emails. And I’m feeling better for it. Disclaimer by Renée Knight was haunting and didn’t pan out the way I was expecting.

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How to Close a Surprise TKO Project

Project Risk Coach

Have you ever experienced surprise TKO (Technical Knockout) project? You never saw it coming. There was no countdown. Bam! Your project was over. Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock (edited in Canva). Imagine a marketing project. You and the team had been charged with implementing a fresh marketing program for a long-time product. Furthermore, you’ve been asked to deliver the program in record time.

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How to choose the right project management tools

Moira Alexander

The right tool for the right job goes the old adage, but knowing exactly what criteria you should consider and how to go about evaluating each of the project management (PM) tools at your disposal can be time-consuming and even frustrating. So we've taken some of the legwork out of it by offering some key considerations, broken down into three primary categories that should be included in your evaluation.

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The Three Things Every Project Manager Must Know about Project Governance

Ron Rosenhead

This Blog is brought to you courtesy of Dr Mike Clayton. It covers the very important topic of project governance. Projects are all about getting stuff done, I was once told. And this wonderfully simple view is very appealing, isn’t it? So the last thing we need, is someone getting in the way. Project Governance is often seen as getting in the Way. Too many project managers see the role of Project Sponsor, or their Project Board as somehow getting in the way of progress.

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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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Management tool -- lowest of the low tech

Musings on Project Management

Can anyone image doing serious risk management without a checklist? (The answer, of course, is No) Actually, any procedural management can benefit from a checklist. There's been whole books written about checklists. In fact, one of the more prominent books -- "The Checklist Manefesto" by Dr. A. Gawande -- entitles Chapter 1: "The Problem of Extreme Complexity", recognizing the.

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Taking Team Collaboration to the Next Level at Landed

Redbooth

Based in San Francisco, Landed, Inc. is an innovative residential real estate investment company that helps homebuyers overcome the obstacle of high down payments in expensive real estate markets. Landed creates community investor pools drawn from private equity sources. It then matches investments with a buyer, providing a portion of the down payment and gaining a percentage of the home’s equity and appreciated value when the home is sold.

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Effective Time Management

TimeCamp

Very often the beginning of a certain period is combined with increased motivation to work. Each of us knows about the New Year’ resolutions, many of us have made a lot of those. New year – new me, we tell ourselves, believing that with the end of the last day of the last month of […].

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How-to run a more effective daily stand-up or scrum

The Digital Project Manager

Posted in Features General How-to Guides. Run well, a daily stand-up or scrum is a great pulse check, team builder and motivator for a project; run badly, it’s an expensive waste of everyone’s time. An effective daily stand-up is a chance to review progress, get feedback, measure productivity and adapt together as a team, to keep a project.

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Podcast 102 – Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team

Fix my Project Chaos

Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to a regular guest of Fix My Project Chaos, Nicole Nader, about how to improve the productivity of your project team. Nicole became a national director of the Australian Institute of Project Management in October 2015. She is currently a project […].

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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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Benefits of Gitlab Time Tracking with TimeCamp!

TimeCamp

If you’re looking for an application to code, the one which comes to mind is Gitlab – an open-source project which allows coding together with other employees or just software development enthusiasts. Last week we informed about users about Gitlab and TimeCamp integration, which allows tracking time for Git projects automatically, without any effort.

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Podcast 102 – Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team

Fix my Project Chaos

Three steps to improve the productivity of your project team In this podcast, Elise Stevens speaks to a regular guest of Fix My Project Chaos, Nicole Nader, about how to improve the productivity of your project team. Nicole became a national director of the Australian Institute of Project Management in October 2015. She is currently a project […].

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Whats in my Bedside Table- The Reading List

Stepping Into Project Management

This is whats going on right now. The last book I read was The Sleep Revolution. Current Read- The Checklist Manifesto. To read- The Talent Code. To see why you should be reading these as well, check this space next week. Whats in your bag? (Pic Courtesy: Soma Bhattacharya).

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